What is the most convoluted, opaque, impenetrable book you ever read?

I know what you mean. I even read a book by a Biblical scholar with his interpretation of the Book of Revelation and was just as confused after reading that as I was before.

8 posted on 03/09/2007 11:28:31 PM PST by Allegra (Hey! Quiet Down Out There!)

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Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson - G.I. Gurdjieff

9 posted on 03/09/2007 11:28:46 PM PST by Mr. Mojo

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I gave Kant's Critique of Pure Reason a shot. It was totally impenetrable.

10 posted on 03/09/2007 11:28:57 PM PST by saganite

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Laws of Form - G. Spencer-Brown

11 posted on 03/09/2007 11:29:06 PM PST by Jeff Gordon (History convinces me that bad government results from too much government. - Thomas Jefferson)

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Oh, this looks like a fun thread.

12 posted on 03/09/2007 11:30:26 PM PST by Irish Rose (Will work for chocolate.)

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Satanic Verses comes to mind. Bought that to see what all the fuss was about back when it came out.

Just didn't see it. Having a price put on one's head does wonders for book sales, though. ;-)

13 posted on 03/09/2007 11:30:41 PM PST by Allegra (Hey! Quiet Down Out There!)

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Try this one, it's mindblowing:

"IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER"

by Italo Calvino

The reader becomes the central character.

14 posted on 03/09/2007 11:31:23 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Boycott all Leftist Media, ignore them and they will go away...)

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Das Kapital, in its original German.

15 posted on 03/09/2007 11:32:18 PM PST by GSlob

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I'd have to give the vote to Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by the Renaissance Italian architect author Francesco Colonna. Its written in a rather convoluted Italian replate with Greek and Latin derivatives. It prefigures surrealism and is opaque and obscure. You have to know a great deal about ancient literature and languages, math and architectural elements to fully appreciate the work. And the writer's ornate expressions can get tiring at times for modern readers.

16 posted on 03/09/2007 11:32:33 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)

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Microsoft tcp/ip.

17 posted on 03/09/2007 11:32:37 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.)

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whoa trippy

18 posted on 03/09/2007 11:33:22 PM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)

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whoa trippy

19 posted on 03/09/2007 11:33:24 PM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)