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What has been the most difficult book for you to get through? For me it has been Lord or the Rings I had to try FOUR times before, on attempt number five, I finally finished it. I really tried to like it and see what all the fuss is about. Having read the whole damn book... still can't see it. Tedious :) Movies are much better, thinks me.

I had to read through some crap at school but I can't remember what :D

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SillyWabbit
 
If you think Lord of the Rings is difficult to read, its a breeze compared to The Silmarrilion ;)

Oh, and Homer's Iliad too :)

Phil
 
Again, Joyce: Finnegans Wake - probably because it's completely Babelian.

Another, was Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (I can't go anywhere without dropping the name of that book). :p

The information within that book is so esoteric, funny, astounding, clever, literate, etc. It flits between jokes, philosophy, events, rituals, etc. and is the best - most rewarding - story I have read. The first paragraph is in Hebrew. :confused:

And a third, hmmm, probably the OED - was beneficial though. :)
 
Glad im not the only one who's sat and read a dictionary like a book :) My family thought i was mad!!

Phil
 
the holocaust: a history of the jews of europe during the second world war.

it still haunts my waking and sleeping mind.
 
I kept trying to think of hard books I'd read, and then I realized that I just gave up on the ones that irritated me (Lord Jim, Moby Dick, Simarillion, Infinite Jest.) Perhaps I'm a bad reader. :(
 
Moby Dick, yeah. Forgot about that one.

Is Infinite Jest really that difficult? I haven't read it, personally, but I have it on my wishlist.

Cheers, Martin :cool:
 
the one book i haven't conquered yet is Ullysses, james joyce, i can't see why it keeps getting voted in the top 100 books let alone top 5, personally i think literary types like to pretend they like it to look clever...grrr.

other books i've struggled through and finished, include the Silmarillion (well worth it in the end), Thomas Covenant (the less said...), Something happened (Nothing happened)

ksky
 
kskyhappy said:
i can't see why it [Ullysses by james joyce] keeps getting voted in the top 100 books let alone top 5, personally i think literary types like to pretend they like it to look clever...grrr.
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Have a read of this. ;)
 
wow i've got much more respect for Roddy Doyle now! The guy i used to work with used to meet up with other fans for Blooms day - Aaaaaaaaaarghhh.

ksky
 
Martin said:
Is Infinite Jest really that difficult? I haven't read it, personally, but I have it on my wishlist.
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That would depend on how you feel about footnotes. I'm sort of anti-footnote, myself.
 
The Summons by John Grisham. it was my first Grisham and it left me with a really bad impression of the author.

The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C Clarke. ditto for that
 
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