Difficult


Ulysses
Gravity’s Rainbow
Infinite Jest
The Sound and the Fury
House of Leaves
Crime and Punishment
The Odyssey
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Secret Garden
Pride and Prejudice
Finnegans Wake
One Hundred Years of Solitude
War and Peace
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
The Recognitions
Choosing Theo by Victoria AvelineGrim by M.K. EidemStolen by an Alien by Amanda MiloLord of the Storm by Justine DavisEyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold by Ellen O'Connell
Hero Considered Less Than
97 books — 38 voters
Ulysses by James JoyceGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães RosaPale Fire by Vladimir NabokovThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Libri Akro
33 books — 1 voter

The Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingPeter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan AuxierThe Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom AnglebergerHarry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. Rowling
After Wimpy Kid
192 books — 158 voters

Ralph Ellison
Was it that she understood that we resented having others think that we were all entertainers and natural singers? But now after the mutual laughter something disturbed me: Shouldn't there be some way for us to be asked to sing? Shouldn't the short man have the right to make a mistake without his motives being considered consciously or unconsciously malicious? After all, he was singing, or trying to. What if I asked him to sing? ...more
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Kamaran Ihsan Salih
A successful teacher is one who makes difficult things easy, not to make difficult.
Kamaran Ihsan Salih

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