I know this is a day late, but I liked the question this week and decided to answer it. This week
Booking Through Thursday asked the following:
What’s the hardest/most challenging book you’ve ever read? Was it worth the effort? Did you read it by choice or was it an assignment/obligation?
The most challenging book I have ever read is
Anna Karenina. In 2004, it was an Oprah selection for summer reading and I thought I would give it a go. But there is a section in this book about mowing that I just could not get through. I read four other novels while I plowed through the mowing chapter. But in the end, it was totally worth the effort and I was glad I had actually read every single word of
Anna Karenina.
And if anyone one wants to read it, Oprah still has a lot of value information up on
Oprah's Book Club for understanding this book.
Mine is also by Leo Tolstoy---War and Peace. I salute you for reading Anna Karenina from start to end. In my case, I only managed three pages and never got past Chapter One. Shame on me, definitely. I picked War and Peace for a class writing assignment, thinking I should challenge my reading preferences. And challenged it was. Now, I regret to say War and Peace is at the far end of my shelf. >sigh<
ReplyDeleteNancy, I've never tackled War and Peace, but it is on the bookcase. Maybe someday...
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