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Thursday, June 10, 2010

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Top 10 Difficult Literary Works

Share This- Published June 7, 2010 by Xilebat - 320 Comments

Xilebat publishes the top 10 most arduous literary works.  I can't say I disagree and the commentary is amusing.
Link is here, but for those who don't want to click.  Here's the list from 10 to 1:
10.  War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
9.  Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
8.  Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
7.  The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
6.  Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
5.  Scarlet Letter, by Nathanial Hawthorne
4.  The Waste Land, by TS Eliot
3.  Naked Lunch, by WIlliam Burroughs
2.  Sound and Fury, by William Faulkner
and
1.  Finnegan's Wake, by James Joyce.
Click on the link at the beginning of the post to see responses and/or post your own response here.
~mel

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