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Some of Italo Calvino's books are like this, such as If on a winter's night a traveler and Invisible CitiesanilEhilated posted:It's fantasy again, but Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen is kind of infamous for turning readers off that way. It starts in the middle of a complicated political situation and the plot goes to reveal and revise the world's history as well as actual events. The fact most of it is related by unreliable narrators doesn't help either. I read the first several books of that series. Really enjoyed them at first, but as I went on, I just had less and less of an idea what was even happening any more so abandoned it.
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Ulysses isn't the unpenetrable, Herculean read that it's often presented to be, but it can be more challenging read than most, and certain chapters in particular can be pretty baffling at first. Finnegans Wake, on the other hand, is definitely one of those "throw you in the deep end" types of experimental novels.
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