Catcher in the Rye and Ulysses. I’ve tried both multiple times, gave up every time. Reading Ulysses felt like pure torture. The language was just too much for me. Call me too dumb for it. I don’t care. I tried. I couldn’t.

And Catcher was because I found Holden absolutely unbearable as a character. That’s probably the point and why it’s considered the great book it is, but man I just wanted to slap him. Just an insufferable know it all.