Ridiculously Complex Reads for Mental Aggravation

Challenge your mind with these ridiculously complex reads designed for mental aggravation. Dive into a curated list of books that push intellectual limits and provoke deep thought.

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Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

In the mid-1960s, the publication of Pynchon's V and The Crying of Lot 49 introduced a brilliant new voice to American literature. Gravity's Rainbow, his …
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Godel, Escher, Bach

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with …
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Cryptonomicon

by Neal Stephenson

With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private …
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

A novel about writing a novel is the subject of this complex classic which has been described as the greatest shaggy dog story in the …
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The Ticket that Exploded

by William S. Burroughs

Inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. Scientists and combat troops, ad men and con …
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Ada, Or Ardor

by Vladimir Nabokov

Originally published by McGraw Hill Book Company in 1969.
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy

by Robert Shea

Filled with sex and violence--in and out of time and space--the three books of The Illuminatus are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle …