Happened to me with Madame Bovary around the time when they move to the Chemist's town. It picked up after a few chapters though.
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Anonymous2006-05-31 0:15
Anything by Dickens. Dear god, that is some dense prose. UNNECESARILY DENSE PROSE.
Other than that, I can't really think about one.
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Anonymous2006-05-31 2:15
Most of the first book of the Lord of the rings trilogy...
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Anonymous2006-05-31 11:14
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. oh dear god it's too long and unnecassary. but the narrative and story makes up for it.
But of course, most classics are like that. Tolstoy's War and Peace, Anna Karenina. Don Quixote. practically most of the books i read for my lit class :P.
Oh and Kafka's the Castle. the extremely long paragraphs and sentences makes you feel like you're running a marathon.
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Anonymous2006-05-31 21:16
Ulysses. The only points that don't feel like you're labouring uphill are the ones where you go, "WTF just happened?"
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Anonymous2006-05-31 21:44
The Great Gatsby. Mostly because I hated it, but I had to trudge through that book.
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Anonymous2006-06-01 3:46
The Wheel of Time series. Robert Jordan wrote 12 books for a story that could have been told in a damn trilogy.
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Anonymous2006-06-01 10:40
>>The Wheel of Time series. Robert Jordan wrote 12 books for a story that has already been told by TH White and others.