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To: InvisibleChurch

Most unreadable books ever:
1.Gravity’s Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
2.Ulysses- James Joyce
3.Satanic Verses- Rushdie
4.Anything by Umberto Eccho
5. Cryptonomicon- Neal Stephonson


22 posted on 07/08/2014 7:28:18 AM PDT by Hiro Protaginast
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To: Hiro Protaginast

Anything discursive or difficult then?


24 posted on 07/08/2014 7:33:17 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Hiro Protaginast
4.Anything by Umberto Eccho

I agree with your list, except for this one. I find some of Eco's work quite entertaining, especially Foucault's Pendulum.

27 posted on 07/08/2014 7:38:02 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: Hiro Protaginast

Cryptonomicon rocks. It’s not light, late-night reading, but it is a worthy tome—this from a math- averse reader. Lol


46 posted on 07/08/2014 8:44:07 AM PDT by antidisestablishment (Islam delenda est)
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To: Hiro Protaginast
Cryptonomicon- Neal Stephonson

Yeah that was a toughie. WifeofZeugma didn't make it through that one, and that's saying something. The playing card cypher was cool.

Any list of unreadable books mustinclude Dianetics. Granted, it's not supposed to be considered fiction, but still, it's the worst thing I've ever read that comes to mind.

66 posted on 07/08/2014 10:56:11 AM PDT by zeugma (It is time for us to start playing cowboys and muslims for real now.)
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