Most boring/difficult books you've ever read.
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As someone who has just finished the book (after a month and a half, I might add), I can safely say that the speech is a pile of trash. As you said, if you pay any attention to the other 1000+ pages, you don't need the speech. Whatever happened to good storytelling being about SHOWING, not TELLING the reader how to feel. That said, the rest of the book was excellent, and I look forward to reading it again.the Dept of Science said:
Well, I bought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies thinking it would be an awesome zombie book with a bit of classic in between. But alas, it was an awful lot of talking with a bit of zombie talk in between... couldn't finish it. Thank you, Jane Austen.
And Plato's Politeia. Still, I expected it to be pretty hard and I myself freely chose to read it. Haven't finished yet, I'm reading one chapter/book every few months or so to avoid starting to hate it.
And Plato's Politeia. Still, I expected it to be pretty hard and I myself freely chose to read it. Haven't finished yet, I'm reading one chapter/book every few months or so to avoid starting to hate it.
Possible EDIT 3: and except Schrödinger. He's Austrian.Tamminga said:
Honestly anything by Ayn Rand is a chore to read. Not because it's difficult but because it's terrible. I took a few hours to read "Anthem" and it was just a couple hundred pages of the flimsiest Straw Man argument ever. Perhaps even worse is she couldn't even be bothered to stick to her own asinine philosophy because she sets up her argument and then spends the last half of the book running away from it like a thing possessed.
For terms of actual difficulty I gotta go with The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
It's just so....Russian. I know that might not make sense but it's the only way to describe it.
It's like 5 billion pages of questions of faith and free will and loyalty all mixed Russian life and politics.
For terms of actual difficulty I gotta go with The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
It's just so....Russian. I know that might not make sense but it's the only way to describe it.
It's like 5 billion pages of questions of faith and free will and loyalty all mixed Russian life and politics.
really? I personally loved that book and i read it for school twice.Les Awesome said:
Anyway, I'd have to go with The Once and Future King. That shit made me want to gouge my eyes out, blend them with a bunch of nails, eat the concoction, wait till I poo it out, then smear the feces on a sheet of paper and try to read that because it probably would have been more interesting and far more coherent.
The Scarlet Letter and Black Boy. American literature may not all be awful, but these two should not be used to help introduce someone to it.
Dostoevsky. Anything by him. I've read all of his books, mind you. Strictly to test my will. When he actually writes about what happens, then it's really not that bad and somewhat enjoyable. When he gets into the character's inner turmoil, though... well... let's just say I'm not fond of extremely long paragraphs based entirely on the same damn thought.
Catcher in the Rye. I do believe I need not say more on it.
Joseph Conrad is also not one of my favourites, but a lot less hard to read once he stops talking so much about the damn sea and the sailors and so on.
Finally, Starship Troopers. It's really good, but for some strange reason I never found it compelling enough for me to read from start to finish in one sitting, as I often do.
Catcher in the Rye. I do believe I need not say more on it.
Joseph Conrad is also not one of my favourites, but a lot less hard to read once he stops talking so much about the damn sea and the sailors and so on.
Finally, Starship Troopers. It's really good, but for some strange reason I never found it compelling enough for me to read from start to finish in one sitting, as I often do.
Most books in school for me, as I'm an oddly slow/lazy reader. If I had to choose, though, I'd probably go with Woodsong or the Scarlett Letter. Technically Shakespeare was harder than the latter, but it was actually somewhat interesting, even if you don't entirely know what's going on.
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anything from the wheel of time series, boring in a dozen different ways. got a mate who loves them though so i guess its just a case of taste.
cryptonomicon is pretty mindfucking, still not finished it because i keep getting distracted from it and there's no way i can just pick up where i left off.
cryptonomicon is pretty mindfucking, still not finished it because i keep getting distracted from it and there's no way i can just pick up where i left off.
Walden. Thoreau comes off as a complete pompous ass. Then he'll go on overlong descriptions of things that are very honestly mundane. He brags so much about how self-sufficient he was, but some sources say that his parents helped him out. That's not to say the book is without merit. There are some truly great moments in it, but they are scattered about in a sea of pompousness and detail.
One of my majors in college was Religion. In one class we had to read a book called The Unchurched Next Door. It was the most horribly piece of literature I've ever read, and I am a Christian. It presupposes that people who don't go to church are not Christians and are horrible people (I'm not making this up), totally overlooking the fact that there are many people like me who don't go to church because of how fake and self-serving it has become. The book highlighted much of what angers me about my faith (or about the people who "follow" it). It's just a sham version of Christianity that is more concerned about changing people's behavior (which isn't a goal of the faith, oddly enough) than it is concerned with showing genuine compassion to others. I wrote the book a horrible review (an assignment) at the end of the class and threw it in the closest dumpster right where it belongs.
One of my majors in college was Religion. In one class we had to read a book called The Unchurched Next Door. It was the most horribly piece of literature I've ever read, and I am a Christian. It presupposes that people who don't go to church are not Christians and are horrible people (I'm not making this up), totally overlooking the fact that there are many people like me who don't go to church because of how fake and self-serving it has become. The book highlighted much of what angers me about my faith (or about the people who "follow" it). It's just a sham version of Christianity that is more concerned about changing people's behavior (which isn't a goal of the faith, oddly enough) than it is concerned with showing genuine compassion to others. I wrote the book a horrible review (an assignment) at the end of the class and threw it in the closest dumpster right where it belongs.
Anything by Robert Jordan, seriously the Wheel of Time series is the slowest high fantasy book series I've ever attempted and *not* finished reading.
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Völuspá (prophecy of the oracle) and hávamál (the words of the wise) are 2 of the most difficult books i have ever read it is ridden in over 800 years old Icelandic and many of the words in the text have changed meaning since then, but it is very enlightening once you understand it.