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Time to brag: what’s the hardest book you read? (literature.cafe)

submitted 2 years ago by Eq0@literature.cafe to c/fiction@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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[–] Bipta@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It would be The Road by Cormac McCarthy, if I could read it, but it's forever above my reading level.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crime and Punishment, no it was shit.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 1 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] marron12@literature.cafe 2 points 2 years ago

David Copperfield. I read it in one day when I was a kid and had nothing else to do. Bleak House was a slog too, but it had some nice turns of phrase that stuck with me.

And at the risk of insulting a classic, One Hundred Years of Solitude. I get that it's supposed to be a critique on society and inspired by the author's life. I just found it bleak.

[–] Urbanfox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a kid I read Stephen Kings "The Stand" and I felt like it just went on forever.

It got a bit shit half way through, but recovered towards the end.

[–] WestwardWind@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

The extra thick extended cut of The Stand was the first SK book I ever read actually. Probably not the best reading choice when I was like 14 but 🤷

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Stefan Wul - Oms en Serie. Difficult because my french isn't that great. Interesting because it was adapted as Fantastic Planet. Great book. Wul is weird.

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