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What is the most difficult book you have ever had to read for a class?

>> No.2770209

Not a book, but a short story by Sergio Pitol. Holy shit, it was fucking dense. Even when professor went like "it's about X", you could kinda see how that made sense but still the fucking story was borderline impenetrable. And the whole thing is really this woman who works at some mental asylum, she walks into a patient's room (the patient is a kid), she looks into his eyes and she's scared at how they look.

>> No.2770206

>>2770201
Lord of the Flies

>> No.2770211

Macbeth, unfortunately. Things should get better next year, however.

>> No.2770212

A Comparative Politics textbook that is almost entirely game theory and equations, and almost no comparison or politics. YUCK.

>> No.2770218

Hmm perhaps The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad - that non-linear narrative.

>> No.2770225

The Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

>> No.2770228

>>2770201
An organic chemistry textbook. All those fucking reaction mechanisms...

>> No.2770229

Either Wuthering Heights or Gertrude Stein's various works.

>> No.2770437

any textbook ever

because i'm dumb

>> No.2770441

None, I have never went to a college/uni before and I write my own dissertations and grade myself for fun.
I am a lone genius.

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>>2770437
>because i'm dumb

>> No.2770652

science of knowledge
fichte
dunno if i'd find it hard now, but it was a bitch at 20.

>> No.2770657

Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson

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2770659

>>2770437

difficult=boring?

>> No.2770661

probably the Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

I think if took the time to go back, I'd enjoy it more, though. classical lit is actually pretty fucking boss once you put in the time, do some research, and develop a mindset that's more "I'm studying this" than "I'm reading this"

>> No.2770671

>>2770661
and I realize it's not "classical" in the sense of being Hellenistic, but I have gotten more into Greek stuff and I think the challenge and experience would make me better prepared now

>> No.2770673

nonfiction book on the galveston hurricane of whateverthefuck. boring as fuck, had to read for texas history.

>> No.2770685

>>2770652
Pretty much all dem German philosophers from Kant on could go here.

>> No.2770688

>>2770661
So when it was published in its own time was it read and enjoyed or what?

>> No.2770696

>>2770688

Not that poster but i believe Elizabeth hated it due to the slanderous nature it put on a member of the royal family despite the betrayal. I don't knowanything else about the reception of it.