Show I Pilgrims Pilgrim's Progress Heads List of Most Boring Books NEW NEWYORK YORK YORK The The Columbia Uni Uni- University University University Press held a poll to determine deter deter- determine determine mine the 10 books readers consid consid- considered considered considered ered the most boring and came up with some surprising answers Nearly all of the first ten were required reading in high school Some still are John Bunyan's Pilgrims Pil Pilgrims Pilgrims grims grim's Progress took the doubtful honor of first place These round out the first 10 in the unpopularity contest Moby Dick Mil Mil- Milton's Milton's Milton's tons ton's Paradise Lost Spencers Spencer s Faerie Queene Boswells Boswell's Life Samuel of CJ Johnson Johns Jl ic b I P Pamela Pamela ela Eliot's Eho s 's s 's Silas Sim Marner arner I Scotts Scott's Ivanhoe Cervantes' Cervantes Don Quixote and Goethe's Faust Shakespeare led the field with 17 of his 37 plays gaining mention at least once once However only one As You Like It ranked as high as place The balloting cited works ranging from the Old Testament to Dr Al Al- Alfred Alfred I fred C. C Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male as at once classic and tedious I |