Are difficult books more fulfilling?
>>24780348Only if you're ultimately able to take something away from them when you finish.
>>24780348I haven’t read a fictional work since 100 Years of Solitude. What would be the point? There is nothing that can surpass it.
What's hard about The Sound and the Fury? Is it the h'yucj dialogue?
>>24780364I'd wager.
>>24780348How does anyone find Moby Dick hard to read? Where did that belief even come from? It was never a contemporary opinion of the work as far as I'm aware.
>>24780348There is nothing difficult about Moby Dick, it's just shit, long and boring.
War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Moby-Dick, Heart of Darkness, and One Hundred Years of Solitude are not difficult books. Finnegan's Wake and Ulysses are in the wrong order. I have not read Gravity's Rainbow.
>>24780360That's not even his best work
>>24780348Heart of Darkness isn't a hard read
>>24780397>according to goodreads
>>24780389Unparalleled in its theological allegory, though (e.g., the "whiteness" of the whale)
>>24780434Hard to stay awake whilst reading it
>>24780397I had an easier time with James, Joyce and Pynchon than with War & Peace.
>>24780536That's because they don't need to be understood to be appreciated. It's style over substance. You probably missed many hundreds of references in Ulysses, too.
I hate these kinds of lists they're a backhanded form of advertising, not at all an honest attempt at whatever they claim to beDuns Scotus or William of Ockham or something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nans%C5%8D_Satomi_Hakkendenare obviously more difficult, but there's no commercial motive to say sothat aside, I would actually separate out Finnegans Wake (and many books like it) for being deliberately obfuscatory, having elements that are by-design impossible to understand
>>24780385>>24780389>>24780482To be fair if you have no working knowledge of the Bible, a lot of Moby Dick is going to go way over your head. Everyone who would have been reading Melville at the time would easily be able to pick up a majority of these biblical allusions. Even most weekly church-goers in 21stC America probably haven't read the Bible cover to cover so it makes sense they'd find Moby Dick to be a nigh incomprehensible work.
>>24780576Half of them are in the public domain, lolIt's just content to keep you on a particular platform so they can data mine and advertise to you. It's a list intended to generate clicks, not spur sales
>>24780601>read Moby Dick without having read the bible>understand that it's shit>read Paradise Lost without having read the bible>understand that it's a work of geniusNo, it's not the illusions. It's a shit novel.
>>24780616>read without having read the BibleYou didn't actually read understand either work. Might as well pretend like you read and understand the Divine Comedy as well, peasant.
>>24780616There's no reason to like PL and not Moby Dick. They're similarly conceived
What makes The Sound and the Fury so difficult? I'm reading easy cancer shit like A Little Life to get some rest from other difficult stuff for a bit and was planning on reading that one afterwards.
>>24780666>Satan>reading A Little LifePottery
>>24780669The worst part of A Little Life is that it seems written by Neil Breen. Anime tier exposition.
>>24780360why? Please explain your reasoning, i am not trying to hate and i know that art is subjective. I liked that book to, it was great, but really the best? What brings you to that conclusion?
>>24780693Oprah told me it was the best
>>24780348Crima ann Punishment, Moby Dick, and especially One Hundred Years of Solitude are not difficult.
>>24780348>crime and punishmentbruh
