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14.What is the most difficult book you've ever read? Ulysses was slowest going on a time-per-page basis, but I found Proust (with his longwinded parentheses full of both extended metaphors and unfamiliar place-names, forging ahead like a runaway train through uncharted territory while it makes its own winding, confusing track, sometimes spiraling around d'Absurde Hill, the Beulleshitte Valley, or the noble Chateau d'Pretensionne several times and then crossing back over itself, other times seeming to jump ahead without the connecting bits of track being noticeable behind the passengers, who invariably would wonder -- if they really existed, which they do not -- how the train got to the strange locale they find themselves in, yet not particularly care as the fog of uncertainty makes the surroundings barely detectable at best, and thoroughly uninteresting, until they can hardly stand to wait until they reach their destination, and when they finally do, cannot remember why they left in the first place, much as you will not remember what this sentence was about before this parenthetical aside began and will have to go back to the beginning to remind yourself; I had to do that myself to finish writing it) to be, overall, the most difficult to get through.

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