The Top 10 Most Difficult Books

[microrobert]

The Top 10 Most Difficult Books

Back in 2009, The Millions started its "Difficult Books" series (http://www.themillions.com/2009/10/introducing-difficult-books-a-descriptive-list.html)--devoted to identifying the hardest and most frustrating books ever written, as well as what made them so hard and frustrating. The two curators, Emily Colette Wilkinson and Garth Risk Hallberg, have selected the most difficult of the most difficult, telling us about the 10 literary Mt. Everests waiting out there for you to climb, should you be so bold. If you can somehow read all 10, you probably ascend to the being immediately above Homo sapiens.

The Top 10 Most Difficult Books (http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/53409-the-top-10-most-difficult-books.html)


The 10 most difficult books to finish – in pictures

Plough through these challenging works and you'll be doing well. Nominate your favourites in the comments section below


http://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2012/nov/03/10-most-difficult-books-in-pictures#/?picture=398745291&index=2

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[alb0zfinest]

From that list I've only read The man without qualities.

[Kazimiera]

I can agree with To The Lighthouse. I've tried reading it more than once and I just got nowhere. In fact, all of Virginia Woolf's books are quite difficult to read.

I think I'd also have to add "Woman in the Dunes" by Kobe Abe. It was like pulling teeth.

[Sblast]

I would replace Ethics with The Phenomenology of Spirit.
Ethics I could go through, but the The Phenomenology of Spirit not.

[Harkonnen]

I always had difficulties reading maps, for which reason I rather navigate by the stars