What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc) (1 Viewer)

[milocole]

Hunting the Wild Pineapple
-Its Boring
-It makes no sense
-Everyone else understands it bar me
-The teacher expects everyone to understand cause the class is full of A+++++ School Captains
-Its a dumb story, or sounds like a dumb story, cause it makes no sense!!


Further Mathmatics Units 3+4
Im not even going to bother about this one

 

[bawd]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

THE BIBLE.


srzy.

"...And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." :mad1:

The hardest novel for me to read was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The psychotic, stream-of-consciousness-style was just extremely overwhelming for the Year 10 me. Maybe I should go borrow it and try again?

 

[u-borat]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

Heart of Darkness was pretty difficult to understand at first, but, damn, it's a fucking amazing book.

slap yourself silly, you pretentious loser.

 

[catherinet]

A Sigmund Freud "reader" book.
It was a pain to read so i just returned it

 

[Riet]

Harvard Law Review.

 

[hollyy.]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

"...And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." :mad1:

The hardest novel for me to read was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The psychotic, stream-of-consciousness-style was just extremely overwhelming for the Year 10 me. Maybe I should go borrow it and try again?

that was my first text for yr 11, hatred it. sent me to sleep many times trying to read it.

 

[Gauss]

i would have to say a brave new world.

but then again i tried to read it in 4th grade.....i found the first chapter quite arbitary....

and u-borat........what is wrong with the heart of darkness it is excellent

 

[u-borat]

its very well written, but unless you think watching paint dry is engaging, heart of darkness is a ridiculously boring book.

 

[aeiss]

war&peace, by trotsky
should give it another go, it's been a year, maybe i can push through the boring bits

something happened, by joseph heller (same bloke who wrote catch-22. i loved catch-22, hence me acquiring this book)

its just.. so mundane. i suppose if i perservere through the initial stages, 'something [will] happen', but until then, blergh. have tried multiple times, usually resulting in me putting the book down and forgetting about it. sighsighisgh

 

[Tammi105]

The color purple by Alice Walker. My yr 11 book to study but to understand it took too long for even the teachers!!!

 

[EchoRyvre]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

Warragamba Dam - Red Morgan

Red Morgan was a worker on the Dam, and although enlightening, the book was very hard to read ... I didn't mind the excessive colloquial language so much, but the way in which it was written ... 2 weeks to read a 300 or so page book :O

But ah well, he doesn't have a literature degree, now, does he?

I never finished Heart of Darkness ... I do have my own copy and I might try to read it again ... but you've got to think of the context. The way people wrote in the late 1800's and early 1900's was very formal ... I found Brave New World hard to start, but once I got past the first three chapters or so and things start to develop I found it easier, although not as easy as reading John Marsden ... Now he's an author who can get the sentences flowing.

 

[hopethisworks]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

BUMP

 

[lsam]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

BUMP

Fail/

 

[AsyLum]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

Heart Of Darkness: Had to do it for Eng Ad. this year. I gave up after the first chapter
LoTR: I attempted it, but it was to boring, when you could just watch the movies xD

These are the most memorable atm

If those are hard, then we're doomed as a society.

 

[housah0lic]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

lord of the rings also

i was 11 or 12

have hated the series since

 

[LAMBERS16]

James Joyce - Ulysses

 

[monesh]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

i dont know about u guys, but Salingers Catcher in The Rye was annoying + depressing...

 

[bigboyjames]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning


by Jonah Goldberg


it was a fucking difficult read. never ended up reading it.....its like i needed a dictionary with me.

any1 wants to buy it from me. its still in brand new condition. lol

 

[Tulipa]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

There not hard to understand, but boring. I couldn't be bothered to waste my time reading something that wasn't enjoyable.

The thread question is what's the most difficult book you've ever read, not the most boring.

Duh.

 

[Empyrean444]

Re: What's the most difficult book you've ever read (or tried to)? (Lacan, Joyce, etc

Dante's Divine Comedy. But well worth it.