Really boring book. If it had not been picked for ...
580861
Really boring book. If it had not been picked for read I never would have read it!!!
2956465
The most boring book I have ever read - and I had to read it for book club! I kept saying "who cares" - the details were soooo boring!  Sorry!
4129421
Extraordinarily boring.  I have to agree with the other reviewer that gave the book a 1 star.  The beginning, middle and end never held my attention.  I didn't like the characters, the story, or the world.  Wish I didn't even read the book.  I normal don't give a bad book a review but this book was so boring I had to say something.
3005572
This book is very dry and boring.  It reads like a college history book.  Unless you're really into biographies, wouldn't bother.  Have no idea how this book has received 5 stars.  Thought the writing was overly technical, and didn't flow well.  Terrible.
4579374
Although I really like history, I found this book to be really boring.  So boring I couldn't get through it.  I found the characters to lack development and the whole plot to be very fragmented and not interesting at all.  But apparently some people liked it so you don't have to take my word for it.
2742527
Boring. Not at all what you think you would be reading....hard time finishing it - I don't think I did.
3235260
Obviously I read a different book than the rest.  Thankful I was not forced to finish it.  It is a mindless boring book.  Save yourself the agony and read something else.
1327289
I was assigned this book for school and it was probably one of the most boring books I've ever read. The opening is too boring to grab at your attention, and by the time it gets exciting, it's too late and your interest is gone.

What's strange about this book is, at different points, the book was very interesting and informative. The only problem is that it had periods of being very interesting, and then really, really boring. The bad sort of outweighs the good.

I recommend to you... do something useful with your time instead of wasting it on this book.
38950
I really think this should have been 0 stars.  It had to be the most boring book I have ever attempted to read.  No, I did not finish it -- I have more respect for my time.
3137508
No... this book was so boring and generic.  I can hardly stand it.

What a waste of time and life.
4380396
This book was highly recommended to me by my local indie bookstore owner. The book started off kind of weird. Within the first few chapters, Price introduced what seemed like hundreds of characters without really clearly identifying any of them. I had a very difficult time keeping track of all the characters.

The first few chapters were interesting and paced well. But then, after the murder of Ike, the book just DRAGGED on and on and on and on.

It was probably one of the most boring books I have read in my adult life. And since I almost always finish a book even if I don't like it, I finished this one. It seemed like it took forever to finish, probably due to the fact that I fell asleep almost every time I even glanced at the cover.

The blurb on the dust jacket basically tells you the entire story. There is no real MYSTERY that needs to be solved. You, the reader, know who killed Ike. You know WHY he killed Ike. You know everything. The only mystery that needs to be solved is: do the police ever find and arrest the murderer.

If you enjoy boring books with no real plot and wishy-washy charters who you really never feel any connection to, then this is the book for you. But, if you are like me and need a well thought out, interesting storyline and fleshed out charters, skip this one.

This was the first novel of Price's that I have read. I doubt I will be reading any of his other works.
783350
I found this book really boring, poorly written and full of sentences that would belong better to fortune cookies than into a book. Very disappointed and very surprised about the good reviews it has. Maybe I had different expectations. It feels like one of those ..."Anything "for dummies type of book.
Wrapped in a pseudo-philosophical container, the book actually, in my opinion, doesn't talk about anything at all. The author did an excellent job in making it look like it is about something.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
1796240
Boring.... I bought this book because it came soooo recommended but I couldn't wait to pass it on to someone else. I talked with one of my friends that also bought it. She totally agreed with me. It is just boring. I don't know why this book was republished. Mrs. Schaeffer has other books that are better!
2561259
Based on the really cool cover, I was pretty excited to read Thorn Abbey.
However, I really disliked it. A lot.
The characters were boring and/or mean.
Tess was such a downer. All she talked about was Becca this and Becca that. How she had to be skinny to be pretty. How she was ugly. How she could never fit into Max's world. How awesome he was and how she didn't deserve him. It went on and on. She was the main reason I hated this book.
All the other characters were just boring. And bitchy. Or creepy. None a single character was likeable in anyway.

The plot was boring beyond belief.

The only reason I gave this book two stars and not one was at the end something was revealed that was kinda crazy. Okay, a lot crazy.
The writing it's self wasn't really bad. It was just the plot and characters. I'd give Ohlin another try.
3294931
The most boring book I have ever read.  Why in the world did the author take the time to write it.  It was way over 500 pages, which is also too long for most books.  I should have stopped reading it instead of using up so much of my time but you keep thinking it must have some reason...but it didn't.  I have read Arthur Hailey's books before, but this was horrible.
4340423
This book was boring from the very beginning.  I have read several books that did not start out very interesting but as I kept reading they got better.  I wanted to give this book a chance so I kept going, finally about three fourths of the way through the book I gave up.  Nothing about this book held my interest.  The characters were all boring and the subject, unless you like archeology, were extremely boring.  I would not recommend this book to anyone.  It is the first time I have not finished a book.
152242
Really boring. Drawn out, unoriginal, and impossible-to-skip story line doesn't help.