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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm in part 5 of "Crime & Punishment", I'm currently doing a re-reading. The first time I read that book was 9 years ago, I remember the general plot but I had forgotten many details and there's a lot to the story I didn't understand on my first reading. I know Dostoevsky sometimes gets derided as a book for edgy young men but that's quite unfair considering how much influence he had on writers like Kafka, James Joyce, García Márquez, Mishima, Camus. And I think many miss the point that Dostoevsky critizes the nihilists (19th century edgelords) of his era. He can be quite a vicious satirist, there's a chapter where the proto commie Lebeziatnikov talks about how life in the commune will be and how marriage is outdated and how he's totally ok with cuckery and that he wishes being cucked if he ever gets married while Luzhin bursts in laughter while he monologues on a serious tone. Seriously, the guy vomited so many Rose twitter talking points, I guess there's nothing new under the sun.
Razumikhin is a chad just like I remembered him, he's the friend everyone wishes to have. Rodion is a pseudo-intellectual, he tries so hard to be edgy with his "extraordinary men not bounded to crime" manifesto believing himself as a sort of ubermensch, I love how Dostoevsky shreds his worldview as he suffers from guilt. I never read Brothers Karamazov but now I'm definitely going for it and add it to my reading list.
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Does anyone have any recommendations of books like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark but for adults?
Currently reading Stephen King's Night Shift but it just reminds me how dogshit his endings are (there's 20 of them! What a treat!) and very little of it is actually scary.
I also just gave up on Savage Harvest, the book about the missing Rockefeller in New Guinea after like 50 pages. The author spent most of those pages jerking himself off over how similar he is to Micheal Rockefeller and how Rockefeller must have felt when he disappeared and got eaten by cannibals. The author also wrote an article about what happened to Micheal Rockefeller that I recommend you read instead if youre interested. The book has the same info except its stretched out to 350 pages and is more about the authors investigation into the disappearance of Micheal Rockefeller than the disappearance of Micheal Rockefeller.
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I'm not a horror enjoyer but Lovecraft had some cool stuff. I read some of his short stories in HS and it's the only book to ever give me the chills
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When I read Lovecrafts stories I feel like he was afraid while writing them, and Theyre very sincere, and In the stories where there are monsters directly threatening the protagonists, theres a good dynamic of the implications of this existing cant be good + no time to think deeper, run for your life! It sets off a part of your lizard brain where you know something is wrong but you cant understand what and you have too many immediate dangers to think it through so it like just lingers there while youre trying to solve your other problems
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Thank you! I'll check him out too
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Thomas Ligotti
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Thanks! Teatro Grottesco looks promising, I'll give it a shot
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Clive Barker's short stories, specifically Books of Blood.
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Added to the list, thanks!
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