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It's a lot of things, but definitely not boring...
For a reader who likes weird books it isn't boring. For someone required to endure it as part of a class and wants to go to a good school to become a marine biologist or chemistry major, it's very boring.
For many people, they can't easily avoid slow books like this with strange language because it's required as a general prerequisite in high school or college. And getting into a "good" school usually requires feigning some interest in this type of dross.
The skill of reading weird old language that is circuitious and painful really only teaches boredom tolerance for those who don't like literature of olden days.
I promise you Finnegan's Wake is not required reading for any non-English major, and even then likely not until the graduate level (and probably only excerpts unless it's a whole class on just the book).
It's Finnegans Wake, without the apostrophe. Obviously a book full of puns and riddles must have them in its title as well.