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What do you think of the first part of "Notes from the underground" by F. Dostoevsky? It was almost like reading the most profound analysis I could make of myself.

>> No.3749932

It...it hit a little too close to home.

>> No.3749937

>>3749919
It clawed at my bunkered little heart and mind. Shattering start to a beautiful book.

>> No.3749946

you're an annoying pseudo intellectual who can't write cohesively?

>> No.3749949

The work reached in and displayed elements of my being I'd previously thought unattainable... I was left reeling and exposed.

>> No.3749977

>>3749946
You must be one of those people who think Fitzgerald is the best thing ever.

>> No.3749998

>>3749977
I don't understand... explain your thought process?
but no. gatsby is even more boring than notes.

>> No.3750001

I really really liked it. It did hit pretty close to home, but I liked that it was touching while also having a philosophical bent. I like that Dostoyevsky has the Underground man say all they profound philosophical things and yet is full of contradictions. And I like that the first half reads like a philosophy and acquaints you with the character's psyche before moving to the second half which has plot.
Superior to Crime and Punishment imho

>> No.3750454

It's pure genius. It's hilarious yet depressing, specially when you see yourself in the Underground Man. I laughed to tears when he talks about tooth ache and how he planned for all his life to bump into some soldier who had trampled him while walking.

Seriously, I think that this book is his best work.

>> No.3750519
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>>3749919
The book is amazing and its thoroughly alarming when one finds oneself empathizing with the underground man. Apropos of the snow lost me a little bit...what does it say about me when the underground man can get laid and I can't!?

>> No.3750814

i never felt some much second hand embarrassment for an imaginary character. but yeah this book made me feel a lot.

>> No.3750823

>>3750814

* so much

>> No.3750835

I read a few pages in and couldn't stop cringing. It's not that I haven't felt that way nor can relate, just to see it in words (or if it were spoken) just made it seem so obnoxious and regressive

which is a shame because i really wanted to like it. i'm planning on going back to it and finishing it though

>> No.3750869
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3750869

fuck that book

>> No.3751316

I read it recently and felt like I was looking at a person I could have become when I stood at a personal crossroads about 4 years ago.

Peculiar, brilliant, unsettling, but also strangely boring and irritating in some aspects. Loved it.

>> No.3751462

What I like:
That he can pinpoint characteristics that usually go unnoticed but which we all succumb to- like that particular childish one where we somewhat guilt trip people by suffering for satisfaction.

What I don't like:
That this precision is used to novelize such a bitchass waste of space. I was reading just going Damn, I don't care if I know your thought process and you have depth, you're an asshole, dude.

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>>3749932
Yep. Feels and spaghetti and anger out the ass.

The extent which this book reflected myself in certain ways was frighteningly amazing. One of my favourites.

>> No.3751596

>>3751462
>What I don't like:
>That this precision is used to novelize such a bitchass waste of space. I was reading just going Damn, I don't care if I know your thought process and you have depth, you're an asshole, dude.

That was entirely meant to happen. He could be a wanker all right, no confusion there. But at the same time I had too much sympathy for him because so much about the guy hit too close to home.
And I wouldn't call it 'novelizing'; the underground man's sharp insight was presented alongside his flaws; the two were equally as obvious as each other.

>> No.3751617

Above all I thought it was hilarious. Aside from all his other qualities, Dostoevsky is the most out-right funny author I've ever read.

In The Double when the Golyadkin's servant says that decent men "never come in twos" I lost my shit. That novella is just hilarious.

>> No.3752176

>>3751617
Gogol's influence, I imagine.

>> No.3752181

>>3751617
... I don't get it?