/lit/ - Literature

>>6554062
No, no, of course not! What an assumption to make, geez...
It just so happens that Catch-22 is his favourite book. He had raved on and on about it and was somewhat disappointed after I gave him my opinion.

I mean, it is a hit-or-miss novel, wouldn't you agree? I've never heard anyone say "Oh, I thought it was ok."

I found it annoyingly bizzare, too random for its sake. The whole thing reads like an incoherent, hyperactive tumblr post. "Im so random & quirky lol". It got stale pretty fast and nothing new came out of the non-sequiturs. Constantly introducing one silly character in a silly situation after another was, to me, very painful to wade through.

An apologist would say that the circular nature of the unending bizzare events is an allegorical device aimed at simulating the maddening experience of a person trapped inside the army's bureaucratic moebius strip, but to that I say: torture is not art.

I'd probably also throw in a 'fuck you'.

>>6413531
I don't remember there being snakes in the film, but then again, it's been a while since I last watched it.

>>6413522
No, it is not the equivalent of saying that and you shoul feel bad about what you said.

Anyway, on topic: so dreamy.

>>6329383
The Idiot was the last of his novels that I've read and, to be completely honest, I was left somewhat disappointed. A lot of it felt like a poor rehash of ideas I've seen beautifully displayed in The Brothers Karamazov.

But upon learning that The Idiot was published more than 10 years before TBK, it all became clear to me.

I now see The Idiot as one of his first attempts at tackling the Big Questions, a jumping-off point for him, and the Brothers as his final, most mature work as a writer and a thinker.

Nastasya Filipovna < Grushenka
Prince Myshkin < Alyosha
Ippolit < Vanya
Rogozhin < Mitya

Although this comparison is not entirely accurate (they are not identical copies of each other), it gets the point across.

I prefer Aglaya Ivanonva to Liza, tho.