The Most Difficult Book you have re

[djel2210]

After an interesting discussion here at work, I thought I would pose the question here. What has been the most difficult book that you have ever read? Difficult does not mean bad, I am talking about that book that could had to plow through line by line, a book that you actually needed a dictionary too read, a book that made you push your brain to the absolute limit to read.

For me it was Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. I was in my Freshman year in college and had just finished Name of the Rose, after reading the back of the book I thought it would be an interesting read. I greatly enjoyed the book, though I have to admit I started it about 10 times before I was able to finish the whole thing. I had a big dusty unabridged dictionary sitting next to me and was looking up words all the time.

[tinaarmour]

For me the most difficult for me was probably Uncle Toms Cabin, because it was so long, I was reading it for a class and at some points it was very difficult. Another would have to be The Color Purple, I still haven't finished it.

[nigrilaforever]

^ I wouldn't sat that Uncle Toms Cabin is a fairytale

[kateblake]

The most difficult book that I have ever read was "Foucault pendulum" by Eco. The book is full of symbols and predictions.

[sandy2089]

All coursebooks that I had to study at university - they were boring and uninteresting and ... useless.

[andr83]

The most difficult was probably War and Peace, the thing is I read it when I wasn't adult enough to understand many things there, now it's much different