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5th June 2008, 1:26pm
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#1 | | Brazen.
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| Most challenging read?
Whats the most challenging book you've ever read?
Mine is most definitely Crime and Punishment. Took me a good 2 years to get through, its so heavy and its the writing style id really hard to follow. I enjoyed it, I just found that I had to keep going back to it after reading something lighter.
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#2 | | Making Plans for Nigel
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Big Sur. There's like four periods in the first chapter. Too much info.
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#3 | | Princess
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Lord of the Rings. So damn boring and so long. | |
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5th June 2008, 1:34pm
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#4 | | 1 part bitch of eastwick Moderator
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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.
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#5 | | Decaying Moderator
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simulacra and simulation. | |
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5th June 2008, 1:35pm
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#6 | | Loa Of Death
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| Re: Most challenging read?
I've started War and Peace about 8 times. Never got further than a couple of chapters.
Also find a lot of James Ellroys's stuff really tough going due to his style.
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Originally Posted by karbon14 simulacra and simulation. | baudrillard aye?
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5th June 2008, 1:36pm
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#8 | | Brazen.
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| Re: Most challenging read?
Ive never gotten through 1984, come to think of it.
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| Re: Most challenging read?
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Originally Posted by Bunnylingus Ive never gotten through 1984, come to think of it. | That’s a strange one. I find Orwell to be exceptionally straightforward and readable.
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Originally Posted by Bunnylingus Ive never gotten through 1984, come to think of it. | 
The only hardgoing bits in it is the overly graphic sequance in Room 101.
Chaucer is about the only thing I've had to give up on, other then a few bits of trash that were so painfully bad I wasn't prepared to finish them.
Oh, and the Koran. That gets boring fast.
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#11 | | Hello, stranger.
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| Re: Most challenging read?
My brother can't get through 1984 either, though matter how much I prod him about it. He thinks it's really really depressing and therefore gets no enjoyment out of reading it. I don't really get it, I've read it a good few times and well yes, it's pretty heavy going, it's still brilliant.
Mines is Crime and Punishment aswell. Going on a year now and I'm about halfway through.
LA Confidential is also really hard, I'm only 4 chapters in but he's introduced so many characters in that short space of time that it's absolutely useless trying to keep up when I get a chance to read it. The writing style is very different aswell. I'm going to have to sit down and read it all in one go.
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5th June 2008, 1:49pm
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#12 | | Brazen.
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Originally Posted by poprock That’s a strange one. I find Orwell to be exceptionally straightforward and readable. | Quote:
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The only hardgoing bits in it is the overly graphic sequance in Room 101.
Chaucer is about the only thing I've had to give up on, other then a few bits of trash that were so painfully bad I wasn't prepared to finish them.
Oh, and the Koran. That gets boring fast. | I think its because every time I start it, I move to another flat/house.
Not found it since I moved back to mums.
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5th June 2008, 1:53pm
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I had to read A Rebours (roughly translated as Against the Grain or Against Nature in English) by Joris Karl Huysmans for my dissertation - it was an absolute bastard. Near enough no formal structure whatsoever and extremely detailed. Ten pages describing every brush stroke of a Gustave Moreau painting can get a bit tiring. | 
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5th June 2008, 1:55pm
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#14 | | Banned
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| Re: Most challenging read?
Phillip Bobbit's "The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History". A mega-dull analysis of constitutional developments' convergence with advancements in warfare, from a smarmy, swaggering former Clinton advisor.
With a foreword by Michael Howard. Michael fucking Howard. Urgh. | |
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#15 | | Loa Of Death
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Originally Posted by Baron Samedi Also find a lot of James Ellroys's stuff really tough going due to his style. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jenpot LA Confidential is also really hard, I'm only 4 chapters in but he's introduced so many characters in that short space of time that it's absolutely useless trying to keep up when I get a chance to read it. The writing style is very different aswell. I'm going to have to sit down and read it all in one go. | Me too - The Cold Six Thousand was even worse. Although I did enjoy The Black Dahlia immensely - it's definitely written in a more conventional style, though.
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