iam_sweethoney Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 After watching Sex & The City movie, I'd been looking for a book called 'Love Letters From Great Men'. Since I had never received any love letter in my life before, I was dying to see how they wrote the love letter to each other in the past... Unfortunately, the book doesnt exit, however, I found another book which is pretty similar so I asked my friend who lives in USA and was about to come back to Thailand get me a copy of it... 'Love Letters Of Great Men And Women: From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day' by C.H.Charles is the most difficult book that i've ever tried to read in my life... Despite the fact that English is not my first language, this book was first published like 50 yrs ago and it contains the love letters from many famous ppl from 18th century i.e. Napoleon, Alexander Pope, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Vincent Van Gogh etc etc. The language in those letter is very beautiful yet extremely old fashioned and difficult to understand... right now, I'm still in the early pages of the books... still trying though... so come back to my question... what is/are the most difficult books that you've ever read??? xoxo B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 I just remember in High School my english teacher forced us to read The Canterbury Tales as it was written in middle english!! I just remember that being the toughest read ever!! Thank god for Cliff's Notes!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aces_up Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 The bible.... i just got lost reading in and never finished it. load of the rings is always a good read, and a good way to improve your English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LU Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 When I was 15 I thought Thus Spoke Zarathustra was a fairly difficult book, well.... at that time. But it's not difficult books I have problem with. I have more problems with boring books with no interesting content. Last year I read a horrible translation of Dante's Inferno, it sucked so bad I had a very difficult time getting thru. The only reason I finished it was becuz of a girl. I will never do that again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weszaq Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 just about every single of them . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 By Professor Stephen Hawking. A bestseller that puts into layman's terms the theories of black holes,the big bang and superstring. Trying also to explain some serious mathematics... I thought because it was "dumbed-down" for the masses I would give it a go. I'm never going to get a job on a Nuclear reactor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay7 Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Ikea instructions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarathustra Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 After watching Sex & The City movie, I'd been looking for a book called 'Love Letters From Great Men'. Since I had never received any love letter in my life before, I was dying to see how they wrote the love letter to each other in the past... I think this is the real interesting bit here. Would you like me to write you one? Do you look like the girl in the pic? Unfortunately, the book doesnt exit, however, I found another book which is pretty similar so I asked my friend who lives in USA and was about to come back to Thailand get me a copy of it... 'Love Letters Of Great Men And Women: From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day' by C.H.Charles Funny that the best replacement for "love letters of great men" is "love letters of great men and (empty) women". I just put (empty) because it's a bit sad to see the men being called great and the women (empty). How about great women, they don't get published I suppose. is the most difficult book that i've ever tried to read in my life... Despite the fact that English is not my first language, this book was first published like 50 yrs ago and it contains the love letters from many famous ppl from 18th century i.e. Napoleon, Alexander Pope, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Vincent Van Gogh etc etc. The language in those letter is very beautiful yet extremely old fashioned and difficult to understand... right now, I'm still in the early pages of the books... still trying though... so come back to my question... what is/are the most difficult books that you've ever read??? xoxo B. Gee, the most difficult book. I guess it was called "How to win friends and influence people". Never understood anything in it really. xoxoxo Z. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetieBabie Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Ohh no Z. you didn't ! :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GM Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 The bible.... i just got lost reading in and never finished it.load of the rings is always a good read, and a good way to improve your English. I already knew the ending from the movie...so I didn't bother reading it... plus none of the characters were believable! :twisted: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLOS4me Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 I recall trying to read "Dune" by Frank Herbert as a teenager, it seemed a lot like trying to learn a foreign language. Since I was already learning German at the time, which I never seem to be able to use anymore, I'm glad I didn't bother with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iam_sweethoney Posted November 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 After watching Sex & The City movie, I'd been looking for a book called 'Love Letters From Great Men'. Since I had never received any love letter in my life before, I was dying to see how they wrote the love letter to each other in the past... I think this is the real interesting bit here. Would you like me to write you one? Do you look like the girl in the pic? I am the girl in the pic... why do you think i'd put other ppl's picture in my profile?? Thank you for your offer writing me a love letter.. I dont think I'd bother you for that as i already have my special one to do that job.. thanks again... Unfortunately, the book doesnt exit, however, I found another book which is pretty similar so I asked my friend who lives in USA and was about to come back to Thailand get me a copy of it... 'Love Letters Of Great Men And Women: From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day' by C.H.Charles Funny that the best replacement for "love letters of great men" is "love letters of great men and (empty) women". I just put (empty) because it's a bit sad to see the men being called great and the women (empty). How about great women, they don't get published I suppose. Hmm.. so far as i understand the adj, Great, is used for those two nouns, Men & Women, but of course I'm not a native speaker so if anyone could clarify this case I'll be appreciated ... xoxo B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iam_sweethoney Posted November 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 load of the rings is always a good read, and a good way to improve your English. havent finished either lord of the rings or harry potter... guess my imagination is not that high... xoxo B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English_Bob Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Hmm.. so far as i understand the adj, Great, is used for those two nouns, Men & Women, but of course I'm not a native speaker so if anyone could clarify this case I'll be appreciated ... xoxo B. You are correct, the adjective is for both nouns... (I think he's trying to be funny). I used to love Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit when I was a kid. The hardest book I've (never) read has already been mentioned - Steven Hawkings' Brief History of Time... guess it wasn't dumbed down enough! (BTW Iam_sweethoney... didn't you recently RECEIVE a love letter?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iam_sweethoney Posted November 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 (BTW Iam_sweethoney... didn't you recently RECEIVE a love letter?) Yes, i did receive a love letter... but i said i HAD NEVER - means by the time that i was looking for that book no one sent me the love letter before ... and i also mentioned in the above post that i already have someone special writes me the love letters xoxo B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetieBabie Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 (BTW Iam_sweethoney... didn't you recently RECEIVE a love letter?) Yes, i did receive a love letter... but i said i HAD NEVER - means by the time that i was looking for that book no one sent me the love letter before ... and i also mentioned in the above post that i already have someone special writes me the love letters xoxo B. Forget the electronic mail craps.... Written love letters are the ultimate experience. and it takes GREAT men and women indeed, to write them. Congratuation babe.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarathustra Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Ohh no Z. you didn't ! :evil: Englishbob, any idea what she's trying here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarathustra Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 After watching Sex & The City movie, I'd been looking for a book called 'Love Letters From Great Men'. Since I had never received any love letter in my life before, I was dying to see how they wrote the love letter to each other in the past... I think this is the real interesting bit here. Would you like me to write you one? Do you look like the girl in the pic? I am the girl in the pic... why do you think i'd put other ppl's picture in my profile?? Thank you for your offer writing me a love letter.. I dont think I'd bother you for that as i already have my special one to do that job.. thanks again... You're welcome. Still, I'm just a bit confused here. I happen to have understood you'd never received one. And now you did. Don't worry about it though, it's just a personal problem I have. I listen to what people say, I often even repeat it (verbatim) and then suddenly it wasn't what they were saying. You don't know what I mean, but it's OK. Unfortunately, the book doesnt exit, however, I found another book which is pretty similar so I asked my friend who lives in USA and was about to come back to Thailand get me a copy of it... 'Love Letters Of Great Men And Women: From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day' by C.H.Charles Funny that the best replacement for "love letters of great men" is "love letters of great men and (empty) women". I just put (empty) because it's a bit sad to see the men being called great and the women (empty). How about great women, they don't get published I suppose. Hmm.. so far as i understand the adj, Great, is used for those two nouns, Men & Women, but of course I'm not a native speaker so if anyone could clarify this case I'll be appreciated ... xoxo B. You won't need an expert for that. I was only trying to be funny, and I generally fail miserably. Again, nothing to worry about personally, I often don't get other people's jokes either :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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scotne1 Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a very difficult book to read, it was interesting enough that I wanted to finish it but so poorly written and boring,it was just painful. Thank goodness its only about 400 pages long. In the end I was glad I finished it, would recomend it to others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarathustra Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a very difficult book to read, it was interesting enough that I wanted to finish it but so poorly written and boring,it was just painful. Thank goodness its only about 400 pages long. In the end I was glad I finished it, would recomend it to others. Reminds me another of those (always) overhyped pop classics, Goedel Escher Bach - An eternal golden braid. That's "only" 832 pages (haha). One of the main themes is self-referentiality. Somewhere far in it he goes on about how interesting it would be if some book was actually longer than it had to be (guess he was building on the superfluity built into DNA). And he wrote something like, just imagine that the last few hundred pages might not be adding anything to the 'real book', without ever alerting the reader to it. So, I took that as a firm hint and stopped somewhere around 600. Had my fun with the games though. I guess it was a bit too dumbed down because I only got the Goedel theorem (its actual proof) later, after going through a much better 80 page summary. That's a book that ends like in ****, then there's the opposite, The name of the rose, that begins like ****. The first hundred pages nothing but recalcitrant protoprotestant processions stopping you from getting into some detective story. Again, only later I started finding those early protestants digestible. Too late for Eco. But then again, I did enjoy Baudolino and its version of middle-earth. And so on, etc. Maybe explains why I didn't get the Dale Carnegie DIY thingie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English_Bob Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 After watching Sex & The City movie, I'd been looking for a book called 'Love Letters From Great Men'. Since I had never received any love letter in my life before, I was dying to see how they wrote the love letter to each other in the past... You're welcome. Still, I'm just a bit confused here. I happen to have understood you'd never received one. And now you did. Don't worry about it though, it's just a personal problem I have. I listen to what people say, I often even repeat it (verbatim) and then suddenly it wasn't what they were saying. Well, allow me to clarify... In her first post she used Past Perfect Simple Tense... "since I had never received..." which applied to that point in the past. In her next post she explains that SINCE that time she has received a love letter (using Present Perfect Tense), which means that she was quite correct in what she wrote both times and put both us native speakers in our place... Fair play Bowling... (BTW Zarathustra, are you a reincarnation? Your writing style seems familiar?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeMarc Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 'I-ching' (book of changes). The book is relatively easy to read, but it took me many years and much more related study to begin to fully understand it and the entire profound concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarathustra Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 After watching Sex & The City movie, I'd been looking for a book called 'Love Letters From Great Men'. Since I had never received any love letter in my life before, I was dying to see how they wrote the love letter to each other in the past... You're welcome. Still, I'm just a bit confused here. I happen to have understood you'd never received one. And now you did. Don't worry about it though, it's just a personal problem I have. I listen to what people say, I often even repeat it (verbatim) and then suddenly it wasn't what they were saying. Well, allow me to clarify... In her first post she used Past Perfect Simple Tense... "since I had never received..." which applied to that point in the past. In her next post she explains that SINCE that time she has received a love letter (using Present Perfect Tense), which means that she was quite correct in what she wrote both times and put both us native speakers in our place... Fair play Bowling... (BTW Zarathustra, are you a reincarnation? Your writing style seems familiar?) Reincarnation? According to certain religions we all are. I'm not religious though. otoh I do remember my first post. I was trying to be a commoner and I asked something like what does gig mean. That's a very long time ago. We all had to start somewhere, and then we change, not always for the better. But let me apply, too: I WON'T COME between you. (Simple Futur Tense) And I WON'T ever LOOK down on English teachers. (again) They HAVE TAUGHT me useful things. (Present Perfect tense) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle Posted November 24, 2008 Report Share Posted November 24, 2008 the third book of the Tolkien trilogy. BY the time I go to the third book I was getting bored with new names of the characters and found the plot was getting predictable. I tried I really did which was why it was hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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