Most Difficult / Rewarding Books?

AndyD said:

I'd add Anna Karenina but I can never decide whether I actually enjoyed that book or if after 1200 pages I was just suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

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You put into words my feelings about AK exactly.

Ulysses by James Joyce

Extremely challenging at first until the dialectic style started to flow.

Any of Shakespeare's works. So difficult to analyze, but once the analysis is down, the stories and characters are so breathtakingly amazing. I took a class on him at my uni and loved it. I was so passionate about my Titus Andronicus paper too. Ended up with an 86 on it, but he was one of the toughest professors. To get an 86 would be an A in other English classes.