"arduous reading" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe difficult or challenging reading material. Example: The dense academic text was an arduous reading, requiring multiple re-readings and extensive note-taking.
Although there are brief moments of brilliance, I found this book arduous reading and ultimately, unsatisfying.
Meanwhile, a more formidable enemy has arrived in the form of resolute utilitarians who discourage students from seeking what Bawer wants for them: the chance, through arduous reading and reflection under the guidance of dedicated teachers, to discover themselves.
Though these early chapters of "Island" sometimes make for arduous reading, Ms. Rogers wants to establish firmly Nikki's state of mind, to convey the depth of her despair and self-absorption and the ferocity of her rage.
According to Mr Sylla's calculations, for each dollar paid by an American consumer for a fair-trade product, only three cents more are transferred to the country it came from than for the unlabelled alternative.Mr Sylla's frequent criticisms of neoliberalism, the existing trade system and its "plutocratic bias" (by which he means mostly enriching wealthy economies) make his book an arduous read.
Gerrig's idea is that not everything you know is in the forefront of your mind when you are attending to the arduous task of reading or viewing an aesthetic object: "Readers have knowledge of the outcome, but this knowledge does not automatically intrude on their moment-to-moment experience of the narrative".
One time when I asked him why, since he was my publisher, he didn't trouble himself with the admittedly arduous work of reading one of my books, he replied with unarguable logic: "For a start that's what that lazy bastard McCrum [editor-in-chief] is paid to do when he isn't watching the cricket on television.
Except that's not exactly what Pollan said, and performing the arduous task of actually reading the entire paragraph in which the quote is embedded clarifies that.
Things became a little more arduous last summer when I read, in a row, the two great European novels of adultery, Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina".
His arduous daily regimen begins at 3 30 A.M., after which he proceeds, as he told Iyer, to "meditation, prostration, reciting special mantras, then more meditation and more prostrations, followed by reading Tibetan philosophy or other texts; then reading and studying and, in the evening, 'some meditation — evening meditation — for about an hour.
As for Game of Thrones: if skimming the recaps becomes too arduous, I suppose I could always just read the books.
Exploring the world around us is arduous and even, as you may have read in my last post, a bit perilous at times, but it's also joyous and amazing, and it's what we're here to do.
