Least challenging Scriabin sonata?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I'm thinking of trying out one of his later sonatas because I really wanna experience the terror of his sonatas!  The first few times I  listened to the 6th, 7th, and 9th ones, I had to look over my shoulder every few minutes!  It's like being in a horror movie!  

I know the 7th one is out of the question, because that's like harder than Scarbo, and the 5th one is too romantic.  I know all of themmusic difficult, but which one is the least challenging?  The 9th?

[philb]

I remember reading a thread a while back where Koji had ranked all 10. If my memory serves me correctly, he placed the final 6 as so:

Least to most difficult
9, 10, 5, 6, 7, 8

I would mostly agree with this. Judging on a few reading-throughts I might switch 5 and 6. Then again, my opinion probably doesn't matter that much...

[fnork]

Having never played any of the sonatas but studied the scores and many recordings, that list seems to be what I estimated as well. The 8th is perhaps the one I like the most (and a friend of mine played the hell out of this monstrous piece), but it does seem a bit beyond reach, and Koji has mentioned previously that it doesn´t fare very well with the audience in general.