Hardest book you've ever read?

[Gainzfordayz]

looking for a hard to read book

[BeingPaid]

Paradise Lost
10/10

EDIT:

Homer's "The Odyssey" is another good (and difficult) read.

Aristophanes and Sophocles are also very difficult, but great!

[dimitriy]

hmm, well hard is a of a vague criteria, are we talking about hardness of the cover? pages? lowest spring constant? i've found that older books have a hardness you just dont see in books these days. for example, i ran some experiments in the lab with one of those typical old covers you see on old books in the library and found that the displacement was < mm when exerting 100+ N across the surface area.... these days books definitely deform with lesser force due to their relatively low young's modulus, just isnt the same anymore! however, im willing to bet that modern hybrid polymer/paper blends are MUCH harder to tear than those in the past..

please specify, bro

[LethalGunz34]

I never read many books but 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Zenwell]

Playboy magazine, if you catch my drift...

[smcampeau]

Big fan of the movie Last of the Mohicans so I decided to read the book, that shet is impossibru to read and I knew what was supposed to be happening

[GnarlySheen]

[cromofo]

braille

hard as ****

[inb4phaggotbrah]

kidnapped by robert louis stevenson or the three musketeers but i read both when i was like 12 so i don't know if they were really that difficult

[supersystem3]

'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert. I read the original English translation too, from the 19th century. Never again.

[shikoku]

Voynich manuscript

[Procta]

Necronomicon

[sixstarchlo]

the bible

couldnt get past the first page

useful for rolling j's tho

[DasPhilosopher]

50 shades of yiamsomebody

to kill a mockingbird

[PumkinPie]

Illiad

[rotatoo]

finnigans wake - lasted 2 pages


house of leaves - so pretentious I threw it off a wall then stamped on it


"The Odyssey" brb 30 pages introducing by name each man of an army

[FitnessJake]

[tman1425]

Haven't read it yet, but this book looks pretty hard.

[purpletentacle]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves

CLIFFS:
- Guy working as repo man discovers essay in dead guy's house about a documentary that doesn't exist that focuses on an ever-expanding house.
- Essay written across hundreds scraps of paper, the essay itself makes forms the part of the book, although some bits are missing.
- Guy interjects with his own thoughts, stories and anecdotes through footnotes.
- Guy edits / censors parts of the essay, so you're not sure if what you're reading is true to what the actually found.
- Guy goes mad trying to make sense of the essay and discover the truth behind it, and binges on drink and drugs.
- Book stops making any sense.
- Even the footnotes have footnotes.
- You will need a mirror, magnifying glass and at least a basic ability to decipher code to read the entirety of the book.

[inb4phaggotbrah]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves

CLIFFS:
- Guy working as repo man discovers essay in dead guy's house about a documentary that doesn't exist that focuses on an ever-expanding house.
- Essay written across hundreds scraps of paper, the essay itself makes forms the part of the book, although some bits are missing.
- Guy interjects with his own thoughts, stories and anecdotes through footnotes.
- Guy edits / censors parts of the essay, so you're not sure if what you're reading is true to what the actually found.
- Guy goes mad trying to make sense of the essay and discover the truth behind it, and binges on drink and drugs.
- Book stops making any sense.
- You will need a mirror, magnifying glass and at least a basic ability to decipher code to read the entirety of the book.

fuark had to read that for an english class in highschool

[Retoaded]

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

[AWillis]

Lex Steele, the early years.

[Bluku]

Madness & Civilization by Foucault.

Worth it but I was u wot m9'ing for like 50% of it. Gl opie.

[Smithers115]

i hear this ones a real page turner

[Nickdude13]

I have this book,I've killed many insects ,sit on it,throw it, and it's still really hard


Edit: I might check the name afterwards

[guyver79]

Gardens of the moon by Steven Erikson.

Just wanted a bit a lulzy fantasy book to read on holiday, I got a Lil way into the book I wondered what the **** was going on, flick back to the front of the book and the "Author" isn't really an author in the traditional sense and is an archeologist who had based the book on 1000+ hours of role playing games and was fully aware and had made it a hard read on purpose.

[Dmetti]

Green eggs and ham

[helpmee]

I forget her name...

But the female that believes in putting yourself above everyone else...


I read two of her books.. One was readable... The other was just mush

[magog704]

le nausee bc i dont speak french

[mrchinup]

the hobbit (srs)