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Now this week’s topic is supposed to be Top Ten Authors Who Deserve More Recognition, but when I sat down this morning-total brain freeze!!  So, I went back two weeks and am doing the topic I missed while I was on vacation, so the topic is-

Top Ten Most Intimidating Books

Now, some of these books are scary due to their size, others, due to the seriousness of the topic, and others-seem impossible to read (Joyce).

1.  Crime and Punishment

I have a hard time remembering the proper pronunciation for the author.

2.  Wuthering Heights

Tried reading it 3 times already- no luck so far.

3.  Great Expectations

The name says it all-actually this is only 1 of Dicken’s works that intimidate me- he has many more!

4.  Dante’s Inferno

I have it.  I opened it.  I put it down.

5.  Les Miserables

I saw this on broadway 20 years ago-does that count?

6.  War & Peace

Wow- that title alone is a whole lotta something!  War-AND-Peace- all encompassing.

7.  The Illiad & The Odyssey 

I am actually dying to read these epic poems, but wow are they long.  I am pretty sure I was supposed to read them in high school (hello cliff notes).

8.  Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake

Hmmm- I have been told for years that these are HARD to read.

and finally

10.  Moby Dick

This whale of a book seems to be just TOO much for me, but I am determined to conquer it one day.