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Even though I bought the 1859 edition of On the Origin of the Species, I started reading “Entangled Life” instead, thanks to a dramacel recommendation, @rDramaHistorian I'm on chapter 3 and the book is great.
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Started Crime and Punishment. Holy shit is it miserable and full of despair.
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Notes from (the) Underground made me miserable for a whole month.
I have yet to see a convincing argument against its content.
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NftU is an AMAZING book on the inner life of a man who is closer to an angry dog than a person. It's not even sad or miserable- he does it all to himself, consumed by bitterness,vengeance, jealousy, pettiness. He's not even an incel he just ruins everything.
It's not miserable it's funny cause all he has to do is go "maybe im NOT a victim" and he would be happy.
Also very funny that the book ends with him ranting and raving and dostoyevski badically interrupts and says "Theres several more pages of this, but I feel inclined to leave it here."
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Yeah, he should have tried to bee himself and maybe decided to take a shower.
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always
yourself
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I mean he did convince a prostitute to run away with him before having a change of heart and breaking her spirit. So volcel.
All the showers in the world won't help an unlikable person.
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Maybe your self sucks and you should bee someone else. Or change.
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I'm reading that right now and it's fricking awesome, the main character is
. I just finished the part where he spent years building up the courage to shoulder check the military officer and he finally did and I'm so proud of him. 
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I got bored of that book. Large sections where nothing happens. Makes sense given it was released chapter by chapter or something but makes it difficult for me to sit down and read it when I could read anything else
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The first part up until and a bit after the kill is absolutely keyed. After he starts fainting it becomes a bit of a slog but was still enjoyable.
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It's an amazing novel. Honestly felt I would react exactly as Rodion with how I was brought up.
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good book
It was the first big boy literature I read and I wasn't disappointed
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I heard it said that Dostoy, was still an athiest at heart and only came to his views out of despair at athiesm or himself solving things. I think that's true by how the book ends, The despair and regret is convincing, but I don't think the route he ends up on seems really emotionally fortified, rather just something else he felt he must drift into.
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I also started reading this, so far its pretty goodI'm partway through the translator's notes
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