To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm re-reading "The Silmarillion" 
and I haven't finished "Fire & Blood" yet 
Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #60
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Finally reading Crime and Punishment and sometimes I laugh out loud while reading because the characters are so incredibly miserable and it just keeps getting worse for them
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I read C&P for the first time when I was 18 and re-read it a couple of months ago. I'll censor the spoilers if you don't want to read them.
The only characters I liked were Razumikhin and Dunya. I get that Dostoevsky wanted to show us Rodion was wrong and that he was mocking the nihilists, but Rodion was so unlikable for the entirety of the book, a whiny and miserable pseudo-intellectual being rude to everyone, that doesn't make for a compelling character.
The Marmeladovs storyline is pure misery porn, I hated reading those chapters. Sonya is just plot device, a pure thot whoring herself to provide for her family, I laughed whenshe told Rodion she would love him forever and follow him everywhere after he confessed being murderer while saying "what a wretch you are!", she exists solely to suffer for others and so Rodion can go back being a Christian, peak chud fantasy 
!bookworms
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Invite Rodion to rdrama.net he'd fit right in.
Devils, The Idiot and Brothers Karamazov are all better but those are the only four of his I've read. I'm not familiar with the history to know why Crime and Punishment ended up becoming his most widely acclaimed.
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Rodion is way too edgy for this site, he would probably post on WPD or /pol/
Me neither, is the only Dostoevsky book I've read so I can't judge the others, but C&P is overrated imo.
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Brothers Karamazov is probably the single most popular book in Christian intellectual circles, any book club I've been in (3) ended up including it and the characters are generally three dimensional and interesting. The Grand Inquisitor chapter alone would make it worth reading.
The Idiot would probably have more thematically in line with Brothers Karamazov and is more a meditation on virtue with a love triangle driving the plot.
Devils is probably the most similar to C&P of the three mentioned (dealing with the political and philosophical trends of the day through the lens of a terrorist cell) but was less of a slog to get through with better characters.
Would endorse all three above and in spite of your negative initial impression of Dostoevsky.
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I'll give Brothers Karamazov a try eventually. I want to buy this edition
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Reading Stardust this, week was very bored until the witch queen arrived, then things were looking up.
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I finished Brideshead Revisited the other week and I'm into The Melkite Church at the Council covering the experiences and reflections of Patriarch Maximos IV and other Eastern Catholics during Vatican II, as part of my continued journeys trying to consolidate and make sense of the postconciliar Church. It's actually uploaded online for free if any of the other !Catholics are
enough to care.
I know this isn't your wheelhouse at all but the liturgical reforms and shift from neo-Thomism to... whatever we are now largely did not impact the Eastern Rites at all other than ending the Latin triumphalism within the Church and it's a subject I think about a few hours a week minimum for years now. Also wanted to put time into being accurate and holistic if/when I start writing my
manifestos. 
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I post the weekly reading thread every Friday by the way, so there will be a new one tomorrow
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It's Friday morning already. !Pinoypride
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I finished Animal Farm and "The Stranger" by Camus this week. I am thinking of finding something else by Camus since I really enjoyed that book.
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Try "The Plague" if you enjoyed "The Stranger".
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I am almost finishing reading the institute by Stephen king
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Finally getting around to hamlet methinks
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Currently reading Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow and The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Washington is about as enjoyable as I expected, the chapter on Valley Forge was super interesting
! Satanic Verse is okay? I'm not 100% sure how I feel about ti. I really like the Gibreel and Saladin story and wish it was just that so 
also Indians so 
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Still mangas
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Read Berserk
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How much time do you guys spend reading per day/week? I'm always surprised when people read multiple books per week. I read maybe 1 book per month, because I read so little
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Depends, right now I'm slogging to end F&B and The Silmarillion, but that's because reading 2 at the same time never worked for me.
On a regular week I'll read one hour per day. Typically at night before going to bed. I can read 25-35 pages per hour depending of the page and letter size. So around 200-300 pages per week as I read more on the weekends. It can be faster or slower depending on how much I enjoy the book or how much interested or willing I'm to finish.
Almost every single 500-600 pages book I read took me 2-3weeks.
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Oh I'm sorry snowflake, did I OFFEND you? Do you want a bandaid? Do you want a hug? Do you want a kiss? I will kiss you. I will do it. Right on the mouth. Come here snowflake.. that's it.. your lips are so soft, snowflake.. mnnhm... ah...... snowflake..........
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