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3054633 No.3054633[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

hey /lit/, what was the point of this? I've enjoyed individual bits, but as opposed to the brothers Karamazov there didn't seem to be much of an overarching plot other than some scatterbrained soap opera relationshit executed by tons of shallow, underexplored characters; are there some themes that escaped me, or some subtlety that i didn't catch?

>> No.3054639

I read around 100 pages before I had to focus more on school and found it decently entertaining but quite boring

>> No.3054657

You're on the front cover OP.

>> No.3054658

>>3054657

I laughed at this.

>> No.3054938

The book meant less to me until I saw an actual epileptic fit...made it from a soap opera into something filled with anxiety every time he felt a fit coming up.

...also the ending was goddamn gorgeous.

>> No.3054947

>>3054639
Lumpkin?

>> No.3054973

It's existentialism, it's humanism, you're supposed to "feel" it, not think about it. I've read this a while ago, but the prince is always going to be one of my favorite characters (I didn't like any of the characters in The Brothers Karamazov, but I'm sure that's what D was going for, everyone had their faults) simply because I love idiots and fools in literature

>> No.3055175

The name of the book says it all. The book has a ironic-philosophicaly approach. He is nice, honest, and naive, thus he's an idiot, a social idiot, because all the world around him is wicked and he is not. Read first 200 pages and didn't complete it, sadly.

>> No.3055209

>>3054639
>>3055175

>didn't complete it

idiots