I finished War and Peace in October. It was amazing. People think it's such a hard read, but it's really just a soap opera with lots of characters, people falling in love, fighting for love, dying for love

What does "hard read" mean here?

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I finished War and Peace in October. It was amazing. People think it's such a hard read, but it's really just a soap opera with lots of characters, people falling in love, fighting for love, dying for love

What does "hard read" mean here?

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It means it’s not an easy book to read, maybe because the language used in the book is complex or the ideas are hard to understand.

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Hi Cemre <3

"Hard read" pretty much means that it is difficult to read either because it is difficult to interpret (when a book uses a lot of symbolism), or simply because the vocabulary being used is advanced and uncommon in everyday language.

Seriously congratulations on understanding a book so well that most people find difficult to get through.

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What everyone else said! I think that War and Peace is a tedious read personally. By "tedious read," I mean that I think that War and Peace is a tedious book. It's way too long.

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Hard means difficult.

Hard read means something that is difficult to read.

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Difficult, almost impenetrable (like a hard surface)