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Which books and authors do you think are filters for plebs?
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!bookworms, whenever /lit/'s taste is stacked up against anyone other than BookTok, BookTube, or /r/books, it's immediately apparent what a bunch of /lit/wits they are.
Also, three James Joyce books, but zero Virginia Woolf books? All the evidence you need that they aren't actually reading these. No amount of misogyny would account for a group that loves Joyce leaving To the Lighthouse off the list entirely.
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Brothers Karamazov as number 3 is insane to me, same goes for Notes from Underground as noted by
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Dostoevsky is the most overrated "western canon" author, I wonder if he sounds good in Russian because the dialogue on the translation to Portuguese I read is super clunky and I can't tell if that's on purpose.
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Maybe you'd like things better if you read them in a non-monkey language
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I get the feeling that dialogue in these 19th century books are less about being realistic and more about getting the character's point of view across
Either that or dostoevski has never had a real conversation with anyone, ever.
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It's a Dostoevsky thing. Just compare his dialogue with that of Chekhov or even Tolstoy and the difference is stark, both the latter's dialogue comes out as much more natural.
In comparison half of the characters in Brothers Karamazov sound as if they were on the verge of a mental breakdown. It does make for some very funny scenes, I acknowledge that.
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I dislike his long novels so much
I can't even tell war and peace and anna karenina apart from how much I loath both books
But his shorter stories are pretty good, he should just never be allowed to introduce an entire mexican telenovela worthy of characters
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they always include crime and punishment too and its dosts worst book, and war and peace over anna karenina
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