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Time to brag: what’s the hardest book you read? (literature.cafe)

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By this I mean, a book you had to brace yourself to read, and you feel proud for having read. Did you enjoy the process of reading it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It would be The Road by Cormac McCarthy, if I could read it, but it's forever above my reading level.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Out of curiosity I tried to read the first few lines of Finnegan's Wake. Couldn't progress beyond that. How do people who actually read the book make any sense of it? This is not an example as stated in the post, but "most difficult book" made me think of this book immediately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crime and Punishment, no it was shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I struggled to overcome the first chapters, but after the “crime”, things picked up and I ended up really enjoying it. It consolidated Dostoyevski as my favorite author for quite a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's weird, it just didn't do anything for me. At any point. I assume I'm missing something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Stefan Wul - Oms en Serie. Difficult because my french isn't that great. Interesting because it was adapted as Fantastic Planet. Great book. Wul is weird.

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