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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I'm supposed to be reading pale fire, but I will probably do the audiobook

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Pale Fire is probably the least audiobookable book of any book ever.

I guess Infinite Jest would be worse.


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I'm bad at reading

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Try Lolita with Jeremy Irons narration.

That being said, Nabokov books are not what I would recommend to someone who's getting into reading (a beginner in literature), he's one of the greatest 20th century authors but his books are very prose heavy.

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