[KellyAdmirer]

James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake." Just way too obscure. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses" are great, though. "Finnegan's Wake" makes Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" seem like light summer reading.

[goldstategop]

A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Marcel Proust's In Search Of Lost Time never gets easier whether on the first read or the hundredth as a result of the author's long and labrinthine sentences that seem to meander on forever. Each sentence contains a complete thought and sometimes a complex thought is expressed in a run on way to capture the full force of its import. The 3,000 page novel is the greatest attempt ever to capture a human lifetime in its totality.