Most challenging read?

[¡Punk!]

Cit of God was a fucker to get through. Hunners of characters and translated from a Brazilian-Portuguese slang. Not the easiest.

120 Days of Sodom is a pain in the arse pun of the day? to get through as well. Taking me far longer than 120 days anyway.

[JZY]

Originally Posted by triggerhappy

Also, it's incredibly rude to leave a theatre during the performance, even if it is shite.

fuck it, you paid money. Hes got your scrilla! id say after that you can do what you want. Their fault for being shite innit.

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by lirazel

i've tried about 3 times to read the mayor of casterbridge and can't get more than half way: Hardy is just. so. dull.

I hate all Hardy with a burning passion. Although at least the mayor of Casterbridge is shorter then Tess "Writting for a magazine so will squeeze as much lazy natural symolism out of every bloody thing rather then bothering with characterisation or an actual plot" D'urbervilles. Pish. The joys of required reading and all that jazz...

The most challenging thing I've had to read is Derrida "Writing and difference". Oh and an honourable mention to Peter Gays Freud Reader (together the two books I've been failing to finish for the longest time)

Fiction wise its probably cancer ward.

The only book I've ever given up on was Franey and Zooey by Salinger. But not because it was challenging but because in my estimation it was pretentious shite.

[Semprini]

Took me the best part of 5 months to get through War and Peace, was very hard going.

[sylvianorth]

I can't get into Lolita by Nabakov, despite everyone telling me I'll love it. In terms of books being dull, it took me months to get through anything by Jane Austen, not cos it's difficult because it's so, so so banal. I also SLOGGED through We Need to Talk About Kevin which is actually fucking pish.


My mate puts forth the suggestion Underworld by Don deLillo. Quote-"fucking god awful, 'america is bonkers let's spend eighty pages at a shitey baseball game that has no meaning'. I got to chapter 4."

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

Originally Posted by poprock

That’s a strange one. I find Orwell to be exceptionally straightforward and readable.

Aye, I remember it was very straightforward and simple enough until the 'The Book' section in the middle. I was reading it in high-school, most of that stuff went over my ign'rn't mind.

[PrincessGarnet]

i'd choose a Dostoevsky book too. There seems to be a lot of waiting around in 'The Idiot' and some insignificant events that really didn't need to be there. Still I liked the basic storyline, it was just stalled for sometimes by 100 pages with these insignificant events. Also the point of view changed quite a lot and then there's a rant about catholics in the middle which comes from no where but it's amusing.

[LesMTS]

Originally Posted by stripey_kitten

The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown. In fact most 'Kailyard' literature is hard going, generally because it's so bleak and downright boring.

Had to read this at school. Dull dull dull.

[supernothing]

Hunners of sociology books are boring as fuck, someone needs to teach these people how to write a decent sentence. Not sociology but the harderst was probably Jaques Derrida's Spectres of Marx. Complicated and full of jargon.

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by supernothing

Not sociology but the harderst was probably Jaques Derrida's Spectres of Marx. Complicated and full of jargon.

Derrida is a bastard when it comes to jargon.

In writing and difference he defends a couple of pages worth, at least, of mind numbing jargon by claiming the reader should have read every major work of philosophy before reading his just to understand it.

[CHUCK LIDELOL]

Agree with the sociology stuff. Needlessly complex.

[Stem]

Originally Posted by Wicked

Lord of the Rings. So damn boring and so long.

Aye, pretty much the same. Stopped reading halfway into Fellowship.

[Gaias Id]

Contradictory housing and job center forms.

Lord of the Rings is, in comparison, a doddle.

[Rhythm Junkie]

'The Unbearable Lightness Of Being' was a chore. As was 'On The Road' - I detested the writing style and ... pretty much everything about it actually.

Once again, although I do it every time a thread of this vein pops up, I feel I have to mention 'The Catcher In The Rye'. Still my most hated book to date. Still the only book I've never managed to finish. Still curse Salinger upside down.

[Zooropa]

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