The most difficult book to read...

[Laurence_Fox]

Have you ever come across a book that you were so psyched about reading but then you read about ten pages in and it turns out to be the hardest book ever?

For me it was either To Kill a Mockingbird or The Silmarillion.

To Kill a Mockingbird would have been fun to read if it wasn't for a class assignment. I think that's what killed it for me.

The Silmarillion I Still have not been able to finish. I've been told it's impossible to read cover to cover. I read the first chapter and I'm like 'What the hell did I just read?'

[Crispers]

XD well how bout shakesphere?

anyways i lov shakesphere XD i donno y i can understand it XD

[Anniexo]

I find books where you can pick what happens in it hard, I mean it's not a very good book if it make you pick what happens. Know what I mean?

[Axel2071]

Mine was some book from the early 1700's that I found at an antique shop XD

[Jade Rhade]

The Silmarillion I Still have not been able to finish. I've been told it's impossible to read cover to cover. I read the first chapter and I'm like 'What the hell did I just read?'

Well, it's not impossible, as I read it when I was 13. O.O

I'd have to say Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter... that man goes SO OVERBOARD with his detail that it's not even funny. I all but cried through the 50-page introduction from sheer boredom. His first chapter is the description of a door. I'm not joking. >.<

[Emo Pengwin]

To Kill a Mockingbird.

I checked it out in 6th grade and tried reading it...

I heard it was good, but you can't keep a 6th grader occupied for long with a story like that...

[Anniexo]

Well, it's not impossible, as I read it when I was 13. O.O

I'd have to say Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter... that man goes SO OVERBOARD with his detail that it's not even funny. I all but cried through the 50-page introduction from sheer boredom. His first chapter is the description of a door. I'm not joking. >.<

Dude really? how many chapters are there in that book 1000? if it was just a door i'd me find with just the colour and what it's made of and any small patten it may have on it, but man a whole chapter on a door

[ZeldaStrife]

A word of advice: dont ever read A Tale of Two Cities. When they say he got paid by the word, they're not kidding. And i read the first five pages and went, "wtf did i just read?" That book is hard as heck! I have The Silmarillion and it's hard, too. I like To Kill a Mockingbird--you have to really want to read it, though and give it chance.

[Sorafan60]

Mine are The Hobbit, Silas Marner, and Romeo and Juliet.

The only thing that got me through the Hobbit, was the fact I had to read it for english class.

Silas Marner, it has 18-19th century English in it, and it was very boring. I never finished it even though I had to read it for class.

Romeo and Juliet was good, but I only understood it because of translations, and my teacher had us watch the older version of the movie.

[eastercat]

A word of advice: dont ever read A Tale of Two Cities. When they say he got paid by the word, they're not kidding. And i read the first five pages and went, "wtf did i just read?" That book is hard as heck! I have The Silmarillion and it's hard, too. I like To Kill a Mockingbird--you have to really want to read it, though and give it chance.

gah...I'm reading that right now for class. It makes more sense around chap 4. xD But it gets confusing after a while. My teacher said to keep reading and it should make sense after 100 pages. O_O

[HigherBeing]

I haven't read a hard book, yet. :( I want to join this club. :rolleyes: ha just kidding.

[ZakuraRabbit]

Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings were both quite hard but Silmarillion was the worst one.
I have a pocket-version of it in norwegian (my first language) and it took me 3 months to read, at the same time I got Harry Potter adn the order of Phoenix in english and that one took me 3 days:p
The worst part about Silmarillion for me was that the characters have so many different names! It's impossible to keep track of them all!

[Peyton]

I am actually a little embrassed by saying this, but I had problems reading a childrens book >.> It's a long time ago , but I still remember it *blushes*.

I opened the book and started to read and I was like wtf?! this is a childrens book O.O The word were friggin hard the language was really bad, and the worst part is that the book was supposed to be about the feelings of a dog. A dog! a 30 pages book! jeez some people can't write books.

Yeah, long time ago. And I am actually a good reader, not to be bragging or anything at all.
I find the book lame, and I have said this before but it was a long time ago!.

^^

[Kiryu]

The Lord of the Rings books were really hard to read. Guess that is why I gave up reading them, found them too boring.

[HigherBeing]

The Lord of the Rings books were really hard to read. Guess that is why I gave up reading them, found them too boring.

*gasp of shock* I thought they were ok. ^_^' But yeah, after a while... @_@''

[Jade Rhade]

Dude really? how many chapters are there in that book 1000? if it was just a door i'd me find with just the colour and what it's made of and any small patten it may have on it, but man a whole chapter on a door

Umm... it's in a really small typeface, so... damn, now I must go upstairs and check...

Right, 254 pages, which is nothing, you think? Well, the typeface is tiny. And yes, the first chapter was two pages long, speaking of the prison door. >.< Oh, and a rosebush beside the door. It's supposed to be this whole symbolism thing, but then there's me... *strangles symbolism*

[Kiryu]

*gasp of shock* I thought they were ok. ^_^' But yeah, after a while... @_@''

Yeah after a while it just became to much for me.

[8730]

for me it has to be Silmarillion. i tried, then gave up and left it a few years. came back and managed to finish it after about 3 months. i kept being reminded of the bible with the constant "Bob, son of Jim, second cousin of Frank...."etc etc.
theres also canterbury tales STILL IN YE OLDE ENGLISH!! found it at the side of my english room, tried to read the first page and nearly passed out from the effort.
in comparison, i pre-ordered half blood prince, got it on saturday morning and had it read by sunday evening :D. but yeah, Silmarillion had to be the most difficult book in modern english to read.

[Michelangelo]

XD well how bout shakesphere?

anyways i lov shakesphere XD i donno y i can understand it XD

i agree with the first statement...I can't read shakesphere or any other older books only new things I can relate too..

[Catch the Rain]

I love to read and most books I can read no problem...except for one >_< I started it like 5 years ago but I find it so boring I can't bring myself to finish it! Hehehehe Huckleberry Fin :( I was told it was really good but it just makes me sleepy, I am determined to finish it one day though! :D

Other than that The Return Of The King was kinda hard going and also The Half Blood Prince, jeez that book did my head in! :( it was easy to read but so irritating! For crying out loud I get the cave is green! *breathes* lol rant erm over!

Shakespeare and a lot of older books are really good! The Tempest is brilliant! Oh and Othello, Hamlet is good too :D

[Spitfire]

I am going to say frankenstein, that book was really hard to keep focus in. It is one of the best book I ever read but the way she wrote it was really drawn out, and parts of it were just confusing to read. I could often feel myself not reading but scanning the pages.

[eastercat]

I am going to say frankenstein, that book was really hard to keep focus in. It is one of the best book I ever read but the way she wrote it was really drawn out, and parts of it were just confusing to read. I could often feel myself not reading but scanning the pages.

Here here. I didn't enjoy Frankenstein cause of the long drawn out chapters. xP

A hard one that I'm reading is Tale of two cites. I had absolutely no idea what the heck they were talking about in the first paragraph.

[Oerba Yun Fang]

Yeah Lord of the Rings was definitely a toughy. I've never finished reading them all. I'm gonna try again after my exams.

[Roxas is Hot]

To Kill a Mockingbird. That book bored me to the hightest level. I feel asleep three times trying to read it. Never. Again.

And then there's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This book was confusing... xD Damn.

[twilit_shadow]

I absolutely adored the Silmarillion!! But I had to constantly look back at the index of names to figure out who those people were. It was annoying, but worth it in the end.

I thought the LOTR series was really hard to keep track of. Everything went in and out of different situations way too many times to keep up with.

The hardest book to read, in my opinion, was Beowulf. Talk about confusing.

[Laurence_Fox]

I never tried reading Harry Potter after my lovely attempt to read the first one. Took me darn near a month and that's a long time for me reading a book.

Funny because the ones you all are posting as difficult are the ones I enjoy reading.:D

[Catch the Rain]

The hardest book to read, in my opinion, was Beowulf. Talk about confusing.

I love Beowulf! It's really good!


And then there's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This book was confusing... xD Damn.

I so agree argh that book was not good!

Hmm another difficult one is t Odyssesy, it took me a very long time to get through that! But the Illiad was amazing, a really amazing book! :D

[beth higdon]

Pride and Prejudice. I tried to read three times and couldn't get pass the 1st chapter. I kept getting lost in the conversions. I didn't know who was talking when and who they were talking about.

Oliver was like trying to run in ankle deep sludge. I got half way through the book and hit a lull. ****ens just wouldn't move the story along. and it's funny because A Christmas Carol is my favorite book. maybe because it's so short.

However I have no problems reading Shakespeare. I guess it's because I'm a thespian.

no i'm not cussing that's how you spell his name

[Raxivace]

A Painted House. 350 pages I think it was. 350 pages about a kid *****ing about working on a farm There two murders somewhere in there, but they were hnot really touched upon. I wanted to murder John Grisham after reading this crappy book.

[Rosey]

And then there's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This book was confusing... xD Damn.

GOD THAT BOOK WAS CONFUSING!!!!! Not one of her bests.... And I can still read it in under 6 hours! :)

Siddheartha was an annoying one.... Watership down was also annoying. Never actually finished it. 10 pages....

[Gravity]

Hmm...I used to find Little Women hard to get through, but I guess that was because I was so little when I first picked it up.

Of the books I have read recently, I found Dracula to be the most annoying. Sure it's short, but the print is tiny and you have to read every word carefully to understand what the heck is going on...It takes a lot of time to get through...not to mention that it's terribly dull and oh-so corny.

Garlic. Stakes. Crosses. Oh my....and gravedirt. Lots of gravedirt.

[Black Sinner]

[QUOTE=*Oblivion*;331899]Of the books I have read recently, I found Dracula to be the most annoying. Sure it's short, but the print is tiny and you have to read every word carefully to understand what the heck is going on...It takes a lot of time to get through...not to mention that it's terribly dull and oh-so corny.QUOTE]

I'm reading Dracula now...And I can already agree with you on that.

The hardest book I ever read would have to be...Mayor of Casterbridge, the only book I've read that will put me to sleep instantly. I actually found the Harry Potter and LOTR series easy.

[Rosey]

I'm reading Dracula now...And I can already agree with you on that.

The hardest book I ever read would have to be...Mayor of Casterbridge, the only book I've read that will put me to sleep instantly. I actually found the Harry Potter and LOTR series easy.

Ive tried to read Dracula, just couldnt do it. Harry Potter was easier excpet for the 6th book

[eastercat]

Pride and Prejudice. I tried to read three times and couldn't get pass the 1st chapter. I kept getting lost in the conversions. I didn't know who was talking when and who they were talking about.

Oliver was like trying to run in ankle deep sludge. I got half way through the book and hit a lull. ****ens just wouldn't move the story along. and it's funny because A Christmas Carol is my favorite book. maybe because it's so short.

However I have no problems reading Shakespeare. I guess it's because I'm a thespian.

no i'm not cussing that's how you spell his name

god! Don't get me started on Pride and Prejudice. They have 5 "Miss Bennets"! Most confusing thing ever!

[Rosey]

god! Don't get me started on Pride and Prejudice. They have 5 "Miss Bennets"! Most confusing thing ever!

Lol. Ive read the Abrideged Version of that. It was good and ALOT less confusing that the unabridged :)

[~tReAh867~]

I'd have to say Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter... that man goes SO OVERBOARD with his detail that it's not even funny. I all but cried through the 50-page introduction from sheer boredom. His first chapter is the description of a door. I'm not joking. >.<

That book was difficult to read, but if you took it slowly and word by word it wasnt too bad.

And I actually found Pride and Prejudice to be amazing (but that could be because i saw the movie first and fell in love with it).

As for the hardest book I have ever read... well, it wasnt the hardest, but Metamorphosis was difficuly. I was not in the mood to read it and so i just stopped early on, asked myself what the h*ll I had just read, and have not looked at the book since. I keep meaning to go back and try again....

[Anderson]

Despite the fact that I despise reading, most books are easy for me to understand.

The only hard book for me that I've tried to read was Great Expectations.
I was like: :eek:

[Skittles]

I hate that.When you read smething then have no clue what you just read or have no clue whats happening.

One of 'em was Tithe by Holly Black.I try to finish it but I wasn't able too...I'd have to read it over again to understand what I just read.

[2Foxxxxxxxxxie4U2♥~]

I tried to read "War and Peace" once...

I think my brain imploded on itself. ._.

[Hunted Hunter]

We had to read "Great Expectations" and "As I Lay Dying" for English class last year.

Both were extremely hard to read. "Great Expecations" used too much old English language, and "As I Lay Dying" changed POV too much.

[Emo Pengwin]

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

In 6th grade, I thought it'd be a good book, but it just...wowed me...I can read it now, but...

[Roxas is Hot]

DragonRiders of Pern.

I couldn't focus too well when I was reading it.

Ugh, To Kill a Mockingbird is the first one on my Worst Books list. DX

[ThosAbout2rock]

hahah yeah to kill a mockingbird definately
and Tale of Two Cities, that book is garbage.
I would read a chapter and then i would have no idea about ANYTHING I just read.

And i would have to write an essay on it.
Killed my english grade freshmen year.

[Ashwa <3]

Um one that I have to read over the summer for english. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil It just takes way too long to get into and the first 250(large print copy, thats the only one they had) pages are just introducing characters....War and Peace was a choice but then I decided against it...

[FrostFire15]

Eh, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was a really boring. But then again, I was in 5th grade :D

Same with "The Hounds of Baskerville".

[Nailpolish <3]

Most definitly THE HATCHET. Gosh, I had to read it with 4 guys. It was so annoying. Like each of us read one page at a time for school language. And 2 of the guys read-liiiiiiiiike-thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis. and uh-like-uh-this-uh. xD

[Arcantress]

Uhhhh......


Books+hard to read= *confused*

The only books I have trouble reading are my school text books cuz i want to fall asleep, lol

[Nobody's Shadow]

Not recently, but when I was a whole lot younger I told myself I'd read Gone With The Wind. I hardly made a dent in it before dropping it completely xP

But these days I can usually read most anything without a problem, though I did find Beowulf to be quite the struggle.

[pyrogamer]

Into the Wild It was sooo boring! It was about the author going around finding information about a guy who was from a rich family and decided to go into Alaska in the middle of winter without the neccecities and ended up dying in a deserted bus. I just thought the guy was stupid and then somewhere in the middle of the book, the author starts talking about people who did some of the same things and died. The only reason I even picked it up was because it was for school.

[blue_neon]

~Rowan of rin~

not that it's hard but there is too much weird names, so it confuses me and i can't get anything about the book in my head

[Misty]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Even though I skipped through two or three chapters (which just so happened to be the most important ones), I finished it, but my god... The Two Towers sucked so badly. I got up to Chapter 13 (lol +44) and gave up. D:

[Sorax]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Even though I skipped through two or three chapters (which just so happened to be the most important ones), I finished it, but my god... The Two Towers sucked so badly. I got up to Chapter 13 (lol +44) and gave up. D:

I was about to say that and it is really...

My brother owns a book of all 3 and it's so long.

The book is like so thick, and the font size is small and it takes about a month or two just to finish, depending on how fast you read though

[Kaiionel]

To Kill a Mockingbird.

I really need to read that book. I began reading it at the age of six or seven (and, amazingly, understood what was going on) and was beginning to enjoy it. Then my teacher told me to stop reading it because I was too little. That really, really discouraged me, and I still hold a grudge. Dang teacher. I think I'll read it at some point this year.

[tummer]

for me, it's a book called reading lolita in tehran. it's a very boring book. it felt like hours just reading one page. it was a class assignment, but we only had to read half way through (no one even wen't passed 100 and it's like 300 something).

[The Lone Wanderer]

In my opinion To Kill a Mockingbird and The Silmarillion. I just didn't like Mockingbird and The Silmarillion is just very hard to read with the names and such.

[O R A N G E]

As weird as this sounds, I could not get through A Christmas Carol.

Maybe it was becuase I knew the story already, but the style was just challenging and I found no pleasure of benefit in reading it.

[George Costanza]

Most Shakespear ones.

The Lexicon.

[Tikem]

Susikoira Roi ja seikkailu saaristossa.... In English it's something like Policedog Roi and the adventure at the islands.

It was so boring! We had to read it for class assignment..... And it took 49 minutes read... 156 pages of pure boredom...

[Near-to-Tears]

The Silmarillion had me confused from the first page, admittedly

I've never got the problem with Shakespeare. It's pretty simple to understand.

And there's a Doctor Who story I just can't read, it bores me to death! I was a quater of the way in and nothing had happened! So I gave up on it...

[~.Only.Twilight.~]

I didn't find the LOTR books really hard to read, although I had to read one paragraph like 4 times to understand it, :lol3:. But that was most because I was at my aunt’s house at the time and that family is crazy!

However I'm finding The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien near impossible to read! It's just so... depressing and... dull. Not to mention super confusing :confused:.

Pride and Prejudice was a bummer to read as well. The school librarian gave it me to read since she said I was reading too many Fantasy books for a girl at the time and thought that most of the girly books would be too easy for me (not true but more on that later). It was really confusing :confused: and I had no idea what was happening at all! However I recently saw the movie and really enjoyed it so I may try reading the book again...

I know this is supposed to be a good book but I couldn't read Eragon! I don't know why, but I just keep falling asleep while reading it! :sleepy: It was kinda boring, :lol:.

The teen-girl romance kinda books are also usually difficult for me to read but that's because I get so mad at them! :mad: The characters are so dim and only care about being popular and make-up and boys and I feel like chucking the book at the wall! :ranting:

[DPWolf]

The Catcher in the Rye. It's a classic, but it's so repetitive, it gets very boring VERY quickly.
I haven't found a plot yet, and I've read the book once and skimmed through it twice.

A Separate Peace was also another "where the hell is the plot" book, but on a different level than Catcher.
Call me sadistic, but I really like classic depressing books and Shakespeare.
"Et tu, Brute?"

The Aneid was also good, but I tried reading it in the original Latin prose form, and I couldn't translate half of it. But the English story form was excellent. A little hard to follow if you don't know a lot about Roman mythology and Latin. s

[jojoj13]

Artemis Fowl.
It's hard for me because i read the fifth book while not reading the first book.
:sweatdrop:

[Rоxаs]

JONNY TREMAIN.

[{Vena_Sera}_ The Anti{Saint}]

probally the divine comedy, by dante

[Jiku Neon]

In my experience I'd never thought I could hate a book until I read Treasure Island. The beginning was too boring for words and I have yet to finish it. To put some perspective on this the 1600+ page Three Kingdoms was easy to finish in comparison.

[Zekushion]

For me, I think my books to read:

Dragons of a Fallen Sun: I bought it a couple weeks ago, since I absolutely love the Dragon Lance series, but every time I go to read this book, I get a couple pages done and then ignore it for a while. I think most of my problem is that there are so many things mentioned in the War of Souls trilogy that I just don't understand because I think I missed the series with the Chaos Wars. It's a bit hard to follow. =S

Of Mice and Men: Had to read that book when I was a sophomore in high school and I still hate it. It was just too boring to read and I'll never understand how the bloody hell Steinbeck managed to become such a reknowned author.

[Blademaster Mai'kel]

Silmarillion. I still cant understand the details. I get the plot, but that's about it. Mockingbird wasn't hard at all; it was a great book, I don't understand why you guys had trouble with it.

[{Vena_Sera}_ The Anti{Saint}]

all books beside game books.

Im stupid, jk i still say the divine comedey by dante i havent read it but my sis said its hard and has italian

[Aura]

I'd have to say To Kill a Mockingbird.I kept on being told that the book was really good and that it's worth it to read it.But when my English teacher passed out the books and we started to read it,I quickly got confused.Even in the middle of the book it was confusing.I hated that book.

[Marluxia13579]

War and Peace=horrific. It's like 1200 pages long. Gah.

I read Pride and Prejudice when I was 12, and I swear I have absoutely no recollection of anything that happens in it. I don't even know what the characters' names are.

[Pyrɸ]

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Oh my dear goodness, may they have mercy on your soul. T_T It's not hard to understand, it's just that . . . it's SOOOO freaking boring that you want to commit suicide . . . or go to sleep. If you're an insomniac, this would probably be the best cure. D'8

[Princess Snow White]

"The Chocolate War"
I've finished the whole book, but I still don't get it.

[Luna Lovegood]

The Lord of the Rings. I tried my best, I only got to the part when they were in 'The Prancing Pony'. My head surely would have exploded if I continued. And I rarely discontinue a book. It just had WAY too much unnecessary detail.

[Reptar :D]

Hamlet omg i hate books that are plays

[Ashwa <3]

The Catcher in the Rye. It's a classic, but it's so repetitive, it gets very boring VERY quickly.
I haven't found a plot yet, and I've read the book once and skimmed through it twice.

A Separate Peace was also another "where the hell is the plot" book, but on a different level than Catcher.
Call me sadistic, but I really like classic depressing books and Shakespeare.
"Et tu, Brute?"

I have to read those two for honors this summer. I finished Catcher and I agree with you; there is no plot whatsoever.

I've only just started A Separate Peace and I really don't think it has a plot. After reading what you said, I'm guessing there won't be a plot ;_;

[Asylum]

I find Shakespeare a tad bit difficult. I really enjoy reading it though ^^'. Apart from that, I haven't found any difficult books.

[S m i l e s <3]

Siddheartha :sideways:

[Darkrequiem0]

For me, I would have to say the Screwtape letters. i got in about 5 pages and had to go back and read that part over again.

[Friendly_Heartless]

My book in eighth grade was "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood".... all that old English and weird Grammer really raveled my brain. *_* I forced myself to read up to page twelve and then I threw down the book and said, "'Tis enough!!! GAH!!!!!"
I only attempted to read it because it gave good AR reading points... lol

[Rоxаs]

JOHNNY TREMAIN
*cries in pain at remembrance*

[Cariad]

The Silmarillion (sp?)
like Laurence.

But I havent tried for years so it might be easier now :3

[Haseo]

The Hobbit is mine. It's a great book, but the chapters feel like the go on forever. And then there's The Secret of the Andes. It's a short book, but it was so boring, especially because I had to read it for a school assignment.