“Try reading 25 pages a day, out loud, in your best bad Irish accent.”

“… tortuous, gothic … [and with] superabundant references to obsolete cultural squabbles … deliberately baffling … hard to understand and harder still to retain … disconcerting — even queasy-making … her 1500 pages are light on plot … the hardest book I’ve ever read … I forgot the plot even while I was reading … I keep getting several hundred pages in, switching to something else … and I can’t wait to dive into it again.”
 — Stringing together the best parts of these tips for reading the “Top 10 Most Difficult Books.” [via]