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Jude the Obscure gets my vote for most unreadable Hardy novel.
I like most Hemingway, but I couldn’t get through The Green Hills of Africa – page after page of “While the porters set up camp, we hiked over the ridge, shot 14 ibex, then hiked back in time for Mama to serve us gin-and-tonics.”
Bridges of Madison County – the ‘heroine’ has an affair, stays loyal to her husband aaaand everyone lives happily ever after. Huh? And the protagonist moves like a panther . . . no, a tiger . . . no, a panther . . .
Shardik – unappreciated, largely forgotten and deserves to stay that way. Painful going for the first 100 (1,000?) pages of stream-of-consciousness narration from the bear’s POV. Then it gets confusing.
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