<p>T.S. Eliot is extremely difficult (I haven't read any of his books, only poems) to understand. He uses about a million obscure allusions, but makes good points. The Wasteland was actually pretty enjoyable once I understood the allusions, in the sense that it made sense</p>
<p>most recently Jacob's Room by Virgnia Woolfe</p>
<p>Every word in Eliot's works was so calculated. He would always try to get them to have just the right connotations.</p>
<p>Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman anyone? I absolutely have no idea what he is trying to convey...</p>
<p>To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. 100 pages about one afternooon?! and then 20 pages about 7(?) years?!</p>
<p>The Short History of the World
actually I just looked at it more so than read it
seriously the history of the world condensed into 400 pages fricken blows.</p>
<p>1) Huis Clos (or No Exit) by Sartre
2) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston
3) The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne</p>
<p>Their eyes were watching god wasn't that bad...it was short ^^</p>
<p>OP, I love the book of Job! It is really hard to read though.</p>
<p>Usually when I have something hard to read I just Sparknote it haha.</p>
<p>Ahhhh Whitman's Leaves of Grass...I remember reading it last year in my junior English class. I loved his poems! They were very musical.</p>
<p>^ are u serious? I think it is total crap...</p>
<p>Thucydides' History of the Peloponesian war... so freakin' boring...</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter</p>
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<p>Jane Eyre sucked like <em>woah.</em></p>
<p>Everyone should read the Fountainhead</p>
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<p>Wow. I was just going to write this. I find it incredibly interesting, it's just very hard to pay attention to it because it drags on so much. Enough 5-page speeches!</p>
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<p>I personally believe that Whitman was one of those pretentious people who believe that anything one writes down off the top of one's head is automatically genius.</p>
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<p>You should read Walden.</p>
<p>Haha Walden! I read every other page and understood it just fine. If a paragraph seems way too long, just skip it. Scarlet Letter was pretty bad; the worst, though, is Catch-22. I know lots of people love it, but I hate Heller's writing style. Uncle Tom's Cabin was hard because I had trouble reading it. Its hard to get thru the dialect. Surprisingly, I got into the flow of Their Eyes Were Watching God pretty quickly. Sometimes a Great Notion was super confusing at first, but turned out to be an awesome book!</p>
<p>The hardest book i had to read would have to be either the Tale of Two Cities or the Scarlet Letter. These two, especially the scarlet letter just dragged on and on........</p>
<p>Nope I'm not kidding. I can totally relate to Whitman's writings and we read his writings extensively last year and my grade in my English during that period was basically one of the highest in the class because I liked his writings and couldn't stop talking about them. I guess different writings speak to different people. For Whitman's poems, they are more for "listening" and "feeling".</p>
<p>And I second A Tale of Two Cities. I read it in 8th grade for an independent project and it was definitely very challenging for me.
Virginia Woolfe's Lighthouse and basically anything by Eliot.</p>