Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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The most boring book I've ever attempted to read was To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. God that was dull. No wonder the woman walked into a river with a pocket full of rocks.
The most difficult book I've ever read is Gravity's Rainbow, which is basically 800 pages of pure concentrated mindfuck.
The most difficult book I've ever read is Gravity's Rainbow, which is basically 800 pages of pure concentrated mindfuck.
Hm... "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
I HATE Nietzsche. Damn arrogant, pretentious prick. Of course some of the observations he writes about have a point, but just HOW he writes about his stuff it is TIRING and insulting.
I HATE Nietzsche. Damn arrogant, pretentious prick. Of course some of the observations he writes about have a point, but just HOW he writes about his stuff it is TIRING and insulting.
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is a powerful, but extremely slow... It's almost the literary equivalent of stuck in your spot and being engulfed by an encroaching glacier.
If anyone reading this is interested in Rand [small](because, like me, you played Bioshock and wanted to hear it from the mouth herself)[/small] I would recommend her much shorter Virtue of Selfishness, which is a much more straightforward philosophical dissertation, rather than lengthy allegorical prose. It's a good read.
If anyone reading this is interested in Rand [small](because, like me, you played Bioshock and wanted to hear it from the mouth herself)[/small] I would recommend her much shorter Virtue of Selfishness, which is a much more straightforward philosophical dissertation, rather than lengthy allegorical prose. It's a good read.
War and Peace was really quite difficult to read. It is all about Russian politics and romantic subplots. I got through about 80% of it and gave up as it also jumped from character to character for most of the book and I had lost the plot and forgotten who each person was. A great book, but just a bit too complicated for almost anyone to read.
most difficult: infinite jest by david foster wallace and ulysses by james joyce..
still very good though, not difficult as in incomprehensible but in open to interpretation etc.
as for boring.. the capital by karl marx... it was absolutely impossible for me to finish that one.. it was just too tedious
still very good though, not difficult as in incomprehensible but in open to interpretation etc.
as for boring.. the capital by karl marx... it was absolutely impossible for me to finish that one.. it was just too tedious
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. I doubt many people have heard of it but it made me almost lose the will to live. As far as difficulty is concerned I find most books very difficult to read because I read extremely slowly, reading books for school is a very time consuming activity for me.
longest? I'm currently reading Les Miserables. I actually like it.
Most boring? The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco. I heard great things about Eco, and i wanted to read something of his. I decided i wanted to start with one that sounded easier, and this one seemed like it would be easy to get into (it said stuff about comics and pop culture on the back). unfortunately, i realized later that all pop culture references would be from Italy during the 50's and 60's, so i wouldn't understand any of them at all.
Most boring? The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco. I heard great things about Eco, and i wanted to read something of his. I decided i wanted to start with one that sounded easier, and this one seemed like it would be easy to get into (it said stuff about comics and pop culture on the back). unfortunately, i realized later that all pop culture references would be from Italy during the 50's and 60's, so i wouldn't understand any of them at all.
Please forgive me and no, I'm not trolling, but I've never been able to get more than about a dozen pages into The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I mean I really want to read it and get caught up in it, but I think that after years of hearing how great it is, I found it too Britishly Dry for my tastes.
Difficult - Paradise Lost, no contest. i defy anybody to read a page once and not got "wait, what the hel did i just read" and have to pick it apart sentence by sentence.
I'm not sure about boring, i'd go with Enduring Love but that's only because it was my English A-Level required reading and i actually went over it so much i didnt even need to take a copy into the exam (which we were alowed to), I GET IT it's man-love. no need to go crazy!
I'm not sure about boring, i'd go with Enduring Love but that's only because it was my English A-Level required reading and i actually went over it so much i didnt even need to take a copy into the exam (which we were alowed to), I GET IT it's man-love. no need to go crazy!
Although Infinite Jest is still pretty incomprehensible if you skip the footnotes, because the central event of the narrative actually happens in a footnote.Mr. Mxyzptlk said:
Except some of the footnotes are completely irrelevant, and there's no way to tell which of the 300 pages of footnotes are going to be relevant and which a complete digression from the already in progress digression in the main text until you've marked your place in the main text, skipped through 1400 pages of it to find the footnote you were looking for and read it.
Infinite Jest is nearly as bonkers as House of Leaves.
And it's still easier to read than Gravity's Rainbow.
Listened to it on audiobook. Actually loved the style, although the poem at the end was so tedious hearing the refrain about 8 times! (I have not yet chosen the woman to bear children with but i'll have them with you eternity.... SNORE!!)Summerstorm said:
