/lit/ - Literature

>>22225108
this captures how I feel about Dostoevsky, and it's why I've never been able to get into him. his novels, to me, feel like the greatest pulp work ever written. a lurid obsession with sex and violence, a perverse pleasure in filth. everyone likes to talk about how "real" his characters feel, or how "deep" their psychology goes, but they've never felt like real, flesh-and-blood people to me -- more one-dimensional screeching mouthpieces who spew whatever idea dosty happens to want to discuss. everything feels contrived, everything feels rigid, everything feels forced. Tolstoy, on the other hand... sheer, titanic genius. never understood why people prefer Dostoevsky. it's the mark of a mind trapped in adolescent angst.
>>22221464
I got one; he's sharply dismissive of thinkers/writers he's never read or attempted to study

>>22068013
it's comforting to think that all around the world, from all walks of life, we're united here, on this board, through our love of the written word. as much as yall can be absolute fucking retards you've shaped my reading life and thereby my actual life.