/lit/ - Literature

>>6447591
the only god-tier thing about that book is the irony of people buying a book to learn how to be rich from a person being made rich by people buying his book.

Anyway this thread is useless, I'm gonna post the bro's k and gtfo

Lets have a thread about this book. So, i'm about 440 pages through it. When does it get bad? Nothing can be this consistently great

what the fuck did i just read?

Every fucking day. Every single fucking day when i come home this little faggot just sits there and gives me this stupid look on his face.

This is the Great Russian Novel

This is not debatable, don't even bother posting in the thread. Im just letting y'all know

Bernards

I'm reading this book for a girl.

What should I expect?

/lit/ I need your expertise

Are there any online resources I could use to help my writing? In terms of structure, prose, character development, etc.. I have some shitty ideas I want to flesh out so I can practice, but it's hard to just start. Also any general tips.

Pic related, the book I'm reading right now.

Modern Library, Everyman's Library, or Vintage? The Modern Library one seems more coherent than everyman based on the first pages

Still got over a 100 pages left, but isn't this strictly speaking an agnostic/atheistic book?

Ivan's clever reasoning are never really effectively argued against, and Zosima's corpse putrefies.

On the other hand, Ivan goes mad, and the people that care about Zosima rotting are portrayed negatively.

I'm getting the impression that Dostoyevsky isn't saying God exists as much as he is saying that we _need_ to believe he does.

Which was really what Ivan was saying with his story about the Grand Inquisitor in the first place. The mistake he made was thinking himself to be above this, by for example showing off his atheism to Smerdyakov.

What do you think, /lit/?

>cunts ruin everything

Alyosha: Tumblr
Ivan: Reddit
Dmitri: 4Chan

>just finished this
>tfw you prefer C&P
How pleb am I, /lit/

This book never gets discussed here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLOVazPtHQ

Dostoievsky said in his introduction to Brothers Karamazov that there would be a second part following Alyosha as the actual hero of the Karamazov family. Fuck, that would've been a masterpiece, right?

I just finished it and i was like: "j e s u s, how can a man say that it ain't the best book ever written?"

ITT: We name directors who would make GOAT movie adaptations.

Wes Anderson would do a flawless The Brothers Karamazov movie.

I have a one week break and want to read a good book in that time. Is it very reasonable to try and read this in a week? I'm not the fastest reader but I have a lot of time.

I finally finished this, and I thought it was great.
But I had a theory about the last chapters.

What if Dmitri actually did kill his father?

I know that it's stated that he didn't, and that Smerdyakov actually did it, but when I think about it, his confession isn't adequate proof. He's a textbook sociopath; since he plans to off himself immediately after telling Ivan this, what reason would he have not to simply fuck with people? He's not the type to set things right in the end. If he planned to punch his ticket in advance, it seems exactly like something he would do to spite Ivan. By killing himself, he's getting rid of any evidence for the acquittal of Dmitri, be it right or wrong, since it would still be the only evidence in his favor.

Meanwhile, Dmitri's predicament seems to go beyond being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's never actually established in the last chapter what happened, or who did the killing; it's left up to the defendant's argument, which is basically page after page of "muh feelings". He says over and over that he didn't do it, but nobody can ever say who did it, other than Smerdyakov, and even he doesn't adequately explain how he supposedly did it without managing to leave any evidence.

Finally, I just can't see that working in the scope of the three-book trilogy. If Dostoevsky planned to write two more extensive books about the Karamazovs, how would he do so with one brother inane and the other in exile? And since the running theme of the story is redemption, I imagine it would be the perfect setup for the second book to reveal the actual killer, and his quest to free himself from the guilt and sin that plagued him and ruined his life in book one.

What do you guys think?

Also, general alternate theories/conspiracy thread.

I really want to read this shit.

Do you have any advice, cause I'm more a "book" than a "literature" reader.

>>5032746
Just started this after reading Crime and Punishment and Notes from the House of the Dead (got the wrong book from the library, meant to get Notes from the Underground).

Thoughts? How good is it?

I'm afraid of showing any genuine emotion and I feel like that's ruining my life.