Re:Don’t Blame Dostoyevsky
by azangru on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:43PM
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> Dostoyevsky's works are amazing without any background knowledge.
Surely, it's a matter of taste :-) I've read Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, and The Idiot without particular enjoyment. I would take Tolstoy any day.
Re:Don’t Blame Dostoyevsky
by nineplay on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:49PM
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YMMV :) Moby Dick didn't do anything for me despite people telling me it's their favorite book. Even stripped of the diversions into the history of whaling I felt like it just went on and on.
Surely, it's a matter of taste :-) I've read Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, and The Idiot without particular enjoyment. I would take Tolstoy any day.