ITT: books you'll never read

I liked the Donald Duck comic book adaptation, if that counts...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is referable to this. No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all. No more can I look into the depths of this unfathomable water, wherein, as momentary lights glanced into it, I have had glimpses of buried treasure and other things submerged. It was appointed that the book should shut with a a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page. It was appointed that the water should be locked in an eternal frost, when the light was playing on its surface, and I stood in ignorance on the shore. My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end. In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?

>I'd seriously recommend it to just about anyone who likes anime, because it really does feel like that.
You've ruined it for me now. Fuck you for pointing this out.

Inexcusable.

This, War and Peace It´s a complex and interesting novel written in accesible prose. Very recommended.

Isn´t isabelian era language middle english? Also, shakespeare is a really nice read and the notes on certain old concepts are really simple and well explained, english is my second language and I can read its plays in a decent pace.

damn now i wanna pick it up and just read it like that and maybe start for real some day

In Cold Blood is really enjoyable.

Ulysses
Anti-Oedipus
The Phenomenology of Spirit

I don't have the patience, discipline, or intelligence to make my way through difficult books.

Repent you swine!