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I'm still haven't finished Père Goriot and I began to re-read Crime and Punishment as It's been almost a decade since I read it and I was gifted a new and pretty hardcover edition. I forgot how neurodivergent the characters acted, I'm not talking about Raskolnikov but Luzhin for instance behaves and talks so strangely in his first meeting with his future brother in law and co., he first comes out as arrogant, then clueless with a "fellow kids" vibe. Marmeladov's rambling at the tavern was longer than I remembered, and what a pathetic and wretched person he is.
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Luzhin comes off as arrogant because he is arrogant. He's a person of a privileged status in Russian society at the time, and is only marrying Dunya so that Dunya will be forever indebted to him. He basically sees her and her family as below him.
I'm almost done rereading LotR, just passed the first half of Return of the King, really making realize how most modern fantasy is complete slop (at least, more so that I already did)
I'm also reading The Gult: The Making of an American Sea by Jack Davis, which is dry but interesting, the early section is mostly about fishing which was
Almost done reading all of Robert Howard's Conan stories which are amazing, will reiterate almost all modern fantasy is SLOP
Reading Name of the Rose by Eco and Godel Escher Bach by Hofstadter after this.
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Yes, Dostoevsky made it very clear by making characters constantly dump exposition monologues, and Luzhin is a cheap bastard too, he's lodging Dunya and her mom on a shithole apartment block and didn't even pay for their train tickets. But I wasn't referring to that. In his conversation with Razumikhin and the doctor he goes on a long talk about "isn't the new world exciting, young people with fresh ideas" and economic theory mumbo jumbo. Then Razumikhin is just like "wtf are you even talking about?" Then tells him to shut up lmao.
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That's because nihilists are r-slurred, but I also hate that chapter so
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