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Time to brag: what’s the hardest book you read? (self.fiction)
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By this I mean, a book you had to brace yourself to read, and you feel proud for having read. Did you enjoy the process of reading it?

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad. It's so damned bleak that I had to force my way through it. It's a great book, but I didn't enjoy it.

[–] Eq0 2 points 1 year ago

I understand. I disliked every bit of it, because it was bleak and dark in a sticky way, if that makes sense. I think it’s a good book because it definitely achieve to criticize the economy of the time, but it doing it it becomes an un-enjoyable book.