anyone here read the brothers karamazov?
thinking of reading it

it any good?

BASED

Great advice. People's attention spans have greatly diminished. Society is hooked on dopamine.

Noname the artist? If she has a book club then that's super dope.

I was like this, for a moment. What I missed was the discussions we’d have after reading a piece of literature in class.

My friends aren’t really into literature like that lmao. Had to join a book club at uni to keep the passion alive. While I can read for enjoyment, I need to get my thoughts out as well as hear what others think to get the full experience.

I feel like reading without writing down your thoughts or highlighting interesting passages means you don’t get the most out of it. Imo.

Not sure if my teacher was a hypebeast but here’s her list of Russian literature that she recommended I read

Anton Chekhov - the Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karmazov, Crime and Punishment, The Gambler and the House of the Dead

Maxim Gorky - My Childhood, My Apprenticeship and My Universities

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, War and Peace

Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons, On the Eve

True. Most people would suggest to start with Crime and Punishment. Thats the one I'm going to start with soon. His books are so expensive here tho. 50 euros per book

Haven't read anything from Dostoyevsky, but a lot of people suggested me to just start with Crime and Punishment. Or maybe with notes from the underground.

I'm missing Tolstoj - The Death Of Ivan Illich on that list. Great intro to Tolstoj(and Russian Literature)

This thread should be stickied tbh

Yeah his magnum opus, true. I don't think you have to worry about that the other works will be worse tho. Can't really tell you more, because I haven't read a Dostoyevski book yet.

sticky pls

KTT1 gone. Our stickies dedddd

Russian lit only we out here fellas

I read karamazov before crime but would recommend going to other way around in retrospect because karamazov is almost an evolved take on the same substance. Crime is also easier to process because it has a more limited cast.

In both novels, almost every little detail in the first half comes back to affect the story’s later half, so you’ll know how to better recognize his seemingly insignificant but secretly crucial details and observations sprawled throughout Karamazov after seeing them in the more straightforward story of Crime.

Just got The Metamorphosis and rereading The Stranger.

I highly recommend The Stranger, Camus is one of my favorite authors

I read The Stranger, thought it was okay. Expected more of it tbh

the stranger was such a good f***ing read

Read this in my undergrad study and wrote on it as well. But at the moment I’m having difficulties recalling it. Care to briefly elaborate on it? When you’ve read so much sometimes things get forgotten.

It ended so abruptly that I actually turned to the back to see if there’s a hidden ending.

It seems like a rather anticlimactic novel to me. A lot is essentially left out for the reader to piece together.

I don’t want to spoiler the thread. Post-war Japan, Mother recalling a particular summer decades later.

Ayyyy nice reading donna tartt’s the secret history rn