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I want live a life of difficulty. I want your recommendation of the hardest book.

I know the hardest vidya is kaizo Mario

Not sure about the hardest digital media .

Remember stay hard and get after it.

>> No.14373946

>>14373940
Finnegan's Wake, no key or annotations.

>> No.14373952

>>14373946
That's it? That's as hard as the medium goes?

>> No.14373975

>>14373952
Academics are still trying to figure out the plot to this day, and it was published in 1939
Pick up a copy my guy, you'll see

>> No.14374010

Voynich manuscript

>> No.14374056

>>14373940
All books are pretty easy. You just see the words, articulate them, and turn the page. There is no difficult book, except >>14374010 (where you can't articulate the words).
Also, the most difficult games are actually Tetris, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress...

>> No.14374067

>>14373940
What’s this guy’s deal? Is he the one that exercises to forgot his depression or something? I bet he’s an atheist

>> No.14374091

>>14374056
minecraft isnt a hard game at all. yes the mechanics are simple and it allows for tons of possibilities but nothing is hard about the game. if you seriously struggle with vanilla minecraft you arent gonna make it.

>> No.14374113

>>14374091
You literally can't win there, though. It's the most difficult sort of game, i.e. an impossible one.

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>>14374113

>> No.14374187

>>14373940
The Man Without Qualities

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>>14374056
>>14374091


There a lot of fan made levels and puzzle. Also super mario mechanic is not simple.

Ex
Jumping and holding forward slowdown your speed

Shell jumps are difficult

And you can't use the excuse of muscle memory

>> No.14374324

>>14373940
just learn a really obscure language with little learning resources and pick up their most difficult books. if you're reading in english, all your reading is basically in easy mode.

>> No.14374624

>>14374175
You literally can't prove me wrong

>> No.14374634

>>14374113
But you can beat it. You just need to kill the dragon.

>> No.14374662

>>14374634
That's not the end-goal of the game, though. It didn't even exist in the early versions.

>> No.14374684

The Mahabhatara. Unabridged.

>> No.14374689

>>14374662
But it exists now. It was unfinished before. Keep up.

>> No.14374722

>>14373946
this but the arabic/mandarin translation. No cheating and using translators. Good luck!

>> No.14374731

for fiction blood meridian is up there, despite it's popular status
for non fiction the enneads will nuke your mind in a single page

>> No.14374744

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

>> No.14374788

>>14374324
Sure, an English speaker can read the words of any book but comprehending them is a different story.when you add in the fact that there are books about every topic and no one knows everything there is to learn, it would be silly to state that there is no such thing as a challenging book.even fiction (especially maximalist novels) will lead you to topics which you aren’t an expert in (hence challenge you)

>> No.14374805

>>14373940
Super dry monographs on stratigraphical archaeology and Bayesian data analysis of findings with data points of 100k or more that include a methodological breakdown. If this is what history is now I want no part of it

>> No.14374865

>>14374722
Mandarin translation is not complete; a professor at Fudan University is working on it and has only completely 1/3 (if I recall correctly) in the past decade or so

>> No.14374890

>>14374788
hmmm yes, you're right but what i'm suggesting is that if he wants to most difficult challenge he should try learning a language which is inherently difficult for an english speaker to learn. but yeah i agree with you, there are plenty of difficult books in english that are difficult for their own reasons.

>> No.14374893

Hard to read? Old indian text or likewise books from lost cultures.

Hard to understand in modern context? Hegel or Finnegans Wake.