Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #55 :marseyreading:

To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.

!bookworms !classics

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.

>Yeah, I'm a drunk unemployed loser, my wife got beaten up by shark loaners and I did nothing, my kids starve and my eldest daughter whores herself to provide for us, someone gave me a job out of good faith and old trust and instead of working I went to buy booze and get lost for 5 days. But God will have mercy on me because I'm self aware :marseyclueless: :marseysmoothbrain:

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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 :marseysleep:

Almost done reading all of Robert Howard's Conan stories which are amazing, will reiterate almost all modern fantasy is SLOP :marseyobesekfc:

Reading Name of the Rose by Eco and Godel Escher Bach by Hofstadter after this.

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Robert Howard's Conan stories which are amazing

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