[SamAdams76]

I find Orwell and Dickens pretty easy reading.

"Moby Dick" was a struggle, I'll grant you that.

I just can't get into Shakespeare at all.

Not on the list but "Infinite Jest" was a book I found very difficult to get into. In fact, I don't think I ever made it past the first 100 pages and I've attempted it more than once. The footnotes alone are longer than most other novels and I'm told they are vitally important in understanding the novel.

[Radix]

Julius Ceasar by Shakespeare was a powerful emotional work.

Brutus ‘buries’ Caesar in his speech defending his treachery, after murdering him, and then Marc Antony comes along and tears Brutus a new one. We rarely read about Marc Antony's amazing rebuke of Brutus. I actually wept when I read it decades ago.

[DarrellZero]

Moby Dick is a beating, but it’s easier if you just skip the ludicrous chapters on whale anatomy.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***”Moby Dick” was a struggle, I’ll grant you that. ***

I found it an fairly easy read. Have read it several times. I sometimes wonder if he was paid by the word as he does chase too many irrelevant rabbits in it, much like Cervantes did in Don Quixote.

[LibertarianLiz]

I just can't get into Shakespeare at all.

I find reading Shakespeare to be difficult. However, watching actors do Shakespeare, this I can understand. I don't know why; but, when someone is speaking Shakespeare, in the context of the play, I can understand it better.