<p>The Metamorphosis was extraordinarily painful.
Clockwork Orange
War and Peace- I gave up for half a year then I finished it</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange. I started it last month and haven't gotten past page 2. Oh, and to tritiumknight- I raced through the Fountainhead! (In a good way) I would probably reread it a million times. Willingly.</p>
<p>rockandrolltime: It just Rand's writing...it's very polarized...either you hate it or love it. It's probably the same reason so many people don't like Catch 22.</p>
<p>Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.</p>
<p>I have read...and reread.... aaannnnd reread the first few sections of that book a bajillion times. It's so good... and then I put it down. I don't understand why I can't finish it. It's awfully dense, but that usually doesn't bother me. Who knows...</p>
<p>tritiumknight: It's funny, I don't like Catch 22 at all.</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment, but I think I was distracted. I never not finish books.</p>
<p>I dislike Austen too, and I'm a GIRL.</p>
<p>I like: Catch-22, Brave New World, Ayn Rand, The Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, HARRY POTTER (re-re-re-re-re-re.... reading HP5 now)</p>
<p>I second War and Peace.. the war part was the boring part... ironically</p>
<p>The Bible is all I can think of. But I plan on finishing it eventually.</p>
<p>I could see why people say A Clockwork Orange since it's impossible to understand in the beginning. Difficult language. If you stick to it, though, it's fantastic.</p>
<p>Tess of the d'Urbervilles
I had to stop it was so painful.</p>
<p>Also Catcher in the Rye started off so slow I had to force myself to get into it.</p>
<p>War and Peace. I got about halfway through and then just stopped.</p>
<p>Beowulf and The Illiad. I couldn't even get through the first pages of either. Blech. Maybe I'm just not an epic poetry kind of person.</p>
<p>Mine are pretty much the same: </p>
<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God (the book makes no sense to me and I can't understand what they are saying..It's not books with dialect bc I LOVE Uncle Tom's Cabin)</p>
<p>Invisible Man (It's so slow but I am trying again this summer!!)</p>
<p>Ditto for all of the Bronte sisters and Jane Austin books.. (the plots are either nonexistent or pointless)</p>
<p>Anna Karenina
The Poisonwood Bible</p>
<p>=P 2 books I started and never finished. I'm sure there are more, I just can't think of them right now.</p>
<p>Great Expectations</p>
<p>I agree with The Bible. I was reading only The New Testament, but I stopped after two pages.</p>
<p>The Poisonwood Bible is different from the actual Bible if that's what you were referring to...</p>
<p>i couldnt fdinish uncle toms cabin to save my life or war and peace</p>
<p>I'm really weird. I got through Jane Eyre in no time and loved it, but could not for the life of me get through To Kill A Mockingbird. It's even weirder because I'm a guy....</p>
<p>wow i loved to kill a mockingbird the only people i know who couldnt finisgh it were girls to....</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice
Lord of the Flies
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
Scarlet Letter
Don Quixote
Candide (i read half of it :))</p>