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Attention !bookworms and !classics
Our next book club reading will be "Petersburg" by Russian author Andrei Bely.
Written between 1913-1916 and initially published on a serialized manner, the book covers the story of a young man who becomes involved with revolutionaries who tasked them with a job, to kill a high ranking tsarist official, his own father.
https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/andrei-bely/pdf-epub-petersburg-download/
Here's the free epub for you guys to download it.
The book consists of 8 chapters, so ideally we'll cover 1 per week but before committing to another failed bookclub I'll ask how many of you want to participate.
For those who're in, another option is to do one chapter on a bi-weekly basis. Let me know in the comments which one you prefer (one chapter per week or one chapter every two-weeks)
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We'll have our first thread on Tuesday, January 28th. Beware that the translation you pick is from the original 1913 version, not the 1922 version. We'll cover chapter one on the first thread.
!bookworms if anyone else is interested the bookclub will be on Andrey Bely "Petersburg".
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I will put it on my ereader but time will tell
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Well, the first Russian novel was our most successful bookclub. Also, is not a 1913 translation, but the translation of the 1913 edition (the original Russian was published in 2 editions and there are modern translations for both).
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Uhh, we're reading
the 1922 version?
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1913
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A Editora 34 tinha anunciado uma tradução de Petersburgo em português em 2021, mas até hoje ainda não foi publicada
Vou ter que ler uma tradução pro inglês.
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Vou ver se leio o pdf mesmo. Eu não gosto muito desse negocio de clube de livro porque eu não costumo ler regularmente. ás vezes eu leio metade de um livro em um dia e depois passo 3 semanas sem ler nada.
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Se você gostar e acabar lendo o livro inteiro em menos de uma semana serve igual, você pode comentar nas threads o que você for lembrar de cada capítulo.
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I assumed this was gonna be about the siege of Petersburg.
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And I thought you were going to link the siege of Leningrad instead of some burgerland civil war battle.
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You don't even know about this? It was a really big deal!
We were trying to cut off railroads to Richmond. Either that or bleed them dry trying to protect them. They tried to escape but our cavalry fixed them at Appomatix and Lee surrendered, ending the war.
It's a big deal!
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What did Russian literature mean by this?
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God hates communists
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Yes, will you join our book club?
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Um not really I don't like to be pressured when reading I spontaneously just read shit on my to do list, whether cold war thrillers, Mick fiction or NFT Journ*lism
When do we have to finish this
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The book has 8 chapters (each chapter has around 70-75 pages on the printed Penguin edition) so we're talking about 10-12 pages per day if as to complete one chapter per week.
After the 8 weekly threads I normally give another couple of extra weeks before the final thoughts thread.
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So you're telling me it's a chapter book not a picture book?
(When we were around 8 years old and most of us (obviously not me, I was a total idiot savant) were still not quite done with learning how to read, the kids divided book into these two categories.)
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I can read a book within 2 days if it's interesting, but if I find it unstimulating I'd rather rope it
What's it about, russians either spectacular or suck donkey ballz for me
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Set in during the 1905 Russian Revolution, an upper class young man is tasked by revolutionaries to assassinate his own father (a high ranking official in the Tsarist Regime).
You can give it a try and quit if you don't like it.
And if you happen to enjoy you can finish it earlier and just comment on the threads what you remember.
What other Russian author's books did you read?
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ONE CHAPTER PER WEEK. FRICK THOSE REEEEETARDS WHO CANNOT READ FASTER THAN THAT!!!
Here's your PDF:
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http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=Petersburg+by+Andrei+Bely&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def
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The one you linked is the 1922 revision, which is 1/3 shorter than the original
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I didn't see the book in the reader's guide pdf.
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Snapshots:
https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/andrei-bely/pdf-epub-petersburg-download/:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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