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Wretched Readers...
You like for characters to suffer don't you? Pick up The Left Hand of Darkness bu Ursula LeGuin . The main characters about freeze their tails off in a pointless trek across a frozen waste, only to suffer more from betrayal. There's big words too! You sick little people will drink it like lampreys in a fish-farm. If it suits your fancies, there are six more tomes in the series, that should keep your rears on the couch for another month. (seriously, it is great stuff for anyone who is beyond Narnia)