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22887249 No.22887249 [Reply] [Original]

rate my books original comment

>> No.22887257

Terrible
1/10 for dracula

>> No.22887267

Boring

>> No.22887269

>>22887249
>original comment
Go back, incel.

>> No.22887312

>>22887267
it is kinda boring desu.
audiobooks are:

book of 5 rings
last temptation of christ
the stranger (in spanish)
shogun
cien anos de soledad
the apocryphal jesus
the last duel

>> No.22887317

>>22887249
so are the spines upside down for spanish books

>> No.22887327

>>22887269
they told me i was too chad

>> No.22887342

>>22887249
Those aren't your books.

>> No.22887355

>>22887312
>cien anos de soledad
>anos
Well, I guess you must really like anal.

>> No.22887363

>>22887249
4/10

>> No.22887392
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22887392

>>22887342

oh yes they are. the crusty green one is full of mexican sayings and their english translations. pretty cool thrift get

>> No.22887417

>>22887392
That is a pretty cool thrift get.

>> No.22887458

>>22887249
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.

>> No.22887474

>>22887249
No one can have a good 20 book collection

>> No.22887482

>>22887249
a little basic, but not bad.. i like

>> No.22887520

>>22887257
fpbp

>> No.22887541

>>22887520
no cap

>> No.22887544

>>22887458
Dostovestky is tolstoys bitch

>> No.22887844
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>>22887392
Do you guys think OP smokes american spirit cigarettes that come in a blue box? Personally, I'm not convinced, I need to see at least 5 more pictures with the box in them to make sure.

>> No.22887871

>>22887249
japanese smokes w an injun. that’s… I think you’re trying too hard

>> No.22887874

>>22887871
>>22887844


those are just some neat souvenirs i brought back from living in japan for a few months. :3

>> No.22887939

you have all the worst books from the authors. tbk and the idiot? myth of sysyphus?
garbage

>> No.22888746

>>22887249
Look up what the best translations of foreign books are next time you buy one because you've got some of the shittiest Dostoyevsky translations and also the Cervantes

>> No.22888758

>>22888746
???what? he's got the pevear dostoy translations i think

those are good

>> No.22888778

>>22887874
Living in Japan for a few months he says

>> No.22888802

Looks okay for someone who just started reading. From an experienced reader I'd expect a much larger collection.

>> No.22888811

>>22887249
College sophomore wanting to read something other than sci-fi or fantasy for the first time.