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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks, magazines, papers, etc.
I restarted “Pale Fire from the beginning a few days ago and finished Canto 3 of the poem yesterday. And thanks to recommendations I also bought myself a nice printed English edition of “Lolita” for a future reading.
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I'm reading The Idiot per dramautist recommendation a few days ago
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How are you finding it?
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It's a little weird and vaguely reminds me of Kafka stuff, which I like, so I'm enjoying it. I'm thinking I'll stick in Dostoevsky's world for a bit and do Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov next
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C&P is pretty cool since it deals with nihilism before nihilism was a “thing”. Nietzsche said something Dosto was “the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn”.
Having said that, I liked TBK better…enjoyed the philosophy more.
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The Idiot is one of the first books with BPD representation
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lol I clocked Nastasya almost immediately as a Cluster B menace
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All of Dostoevsky's female characters have late stage BPD; Grushenka from Brothers is the absolute worst. My man Fyodor knew about Russian women and his books were merely to warn humanity.
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lol interesting to know. Sounds like every film noir and hard-boiled detective book ever made
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What is Kafka’s work like? I haven’t read him yet.
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