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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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[–] feedum_sneedson 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crime and Punishment, no it was shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] feedum_sneedson 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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