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What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by ColdPizzas: 11:39pm On Dec 12, 2018
What's that one book that the writing style, subject matter and vocabulary was just so above your level of comprehension that you just couldn't continue?

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Preetti(f): 11:50pm On Dec 12, 2018
Book of life

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by ColdPizzas: 12:01am On Dec 13, 2018
Preetti:
Book of life

Who's the author? Let me guess. God?

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Redder97(m): 10:02am On Dec 13, 2018
Moral man and immoral society by Reinhold Niebuhr..

Though I read it completely but comprehend just little.
Planning on reading it agian.

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Centino: 11:14am On Dec 13, 2018
Ayn Rand's 1957 1168 page magnum opus titled Atlas Shrugged. Conquered it in the end and it did take me up a few notches. One hell of a challenging read it was.

Attempted William Golding's Lord of the Flies in JS1. Never completed it. Never touching it again.

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by AryEmber(f): 11:45am On Dec 13, 2018
Othello, I'm never reading any untranslated stories by Shakespeare, no more sick English. I tried Lord of the Flies too but dumped later.

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Olusharp(m): 1:46pm On Dec 13, 2018
Centino:
Ayn Rand's 1957 1168 page magnum opus titled Atlas Shrugged. Conquered it in the end and it did take me up a few notches. One hell of a challenging read it was.

Attempted William Golding's Lord of the Flies in JS1. Never completed it. Never touching it again.
Lord of the Flies is interesting... Although, i think the beginning is somehow technical.. I had to read it twice to get the full details..

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by OMA4U(m): 2:01pm On Dec 13, 2018
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by kay9(m): 12:46am On Dec 14, 2018
Some donkey years ago, I somehow got it into my head that reading the classic Greek epics was the coolest thing in literature. So I sauntered down to the university library and picked up a hefty and respectable looking translation of Virgil's Aeneid. Mmmm. About 10 pages (and 10 hours) later, my head started shaking...

Then I looked at the front page properly and realized this book was just Part 1 - there was still parts 2, 3, and I think 4.

I didn't bother to continue.

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by dominique(f): 4:02pm On Jan 17, 2019
It has to be "The great Gatsby" By F.Scott Fitzgerald. The copy I saw in my dad's library was originally published in 1851 or so written in weird English. Confusing as hell. I had to put it away after less than 10 pages. They made a movie about it years later and I kept wondering why anybody would want to adapt such boring story into a movie.

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by themosthigh: 4:03pm On Jan 17, 2019
120 days of sodom by Marquis de Sade

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Savage200(m): 4:03pm On Jan 17, 2019
Rich dad poor dad! I don’t understand at all ...

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Nobody: 4:04pm On Jan 17, 2019
Calculus one

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by elyte89: 4:04pm On Jan 17, 2019
NEW GENERAL MATHEMATICS I,II,III cool

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Omnivalent(m): 4:04pm On Jan 17, 2019
"A God within..."

That book was too difficult to understand

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Lizilicious(f): 4:04pm On Jan 17, 2019
The sigma protocol...

I only understood it few chapters to the ending

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by obaataaokpaewu: 4:04pm On Jan 17, 2019
Omenuko! The one written with "old Igbo alphabets"

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by 1Sharon(f): 4:05pm On Jan 17, 2019
Can I give a tv show instead? For me Hemlock grove

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by noble71(m): 4:05pm On Jan 17, 2019
Buhari grin

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by martineverest(m): 4:05pm On Jan 17, 2019
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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Nobody: 4:05pm On Jan 17, 2019
Nigerian constitution.

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Sacchi1162(m): 4:05pm On Jan 17, 2019
In dependence...


Too long, ain't reading it again

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by dynicks(m): 4:06pm On Jan 17, 2019
7books of moses

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by nonye6194: 4:06pm On Jan 17, 2019
The girl with the dragon tattoo

The girl who kicked the hornet's nest

The girl who played with fire



Steig Larsson's trilogy is mad long

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by joeeee240(m): 4:06pm On Jan 17, 2019
dominique:
It has to be "The great Gatsby" By F.Scott Fitzgerald. The copy I saw in my dad's library was originally published in 1851 or so written in weird English. Confusing as hell. I had to put it away after less than 10 pages. They made a movie about it years later and I kept wondering why anybody would want to adapt such boring story into a movie.

Boring? That book is the top 30 books of all time. Have you even watched the movie? undecided

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Nobody: 4:06pm On Jan 17, 2019
Taraja Taraja. The EE bible

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Ray4edu(m): 4:06pm On Jan 17, 2019
Chike and the River.

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by docadams: 4:06pm On Jan 17, 2019
One Soyinka's very discouraging and very difficult novel like that. 2 pages read and still couldn't determine the language book was written. That put paid to my interest in literature a subject loved very much.

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by buckbuz(m): 4:07pm On Jan 17, 2019
P OKEKE

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by chloride6: 4:07pm On Jan 17, 2019
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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by orion7: 4:07pm On Jan 17, 2019
keith moore. human anatomy. in college if medicine

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Re: What Is The Most Difficult Book You've Ever Read? by Dacronym(m): 4:07pm On Jan 17, 2019
Difficult to understand? That would be Sch uni books

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