/lit/ - Literature

Post books that are immediately interesting from the very first page

What do you think about Sonya?

Should I still read books when I know whats going to happen?


Pic related. Gets talked about so much I get the gist of what happens already. Also I looked at the last page by accident and I'm guessing he goes to jail. If I'm wrong tell me I'm wrong, If I'm right, tell me I'm wrong

Any other /lit/ books that revolve around a murder?

Is it cucked to feel the need to tell the world about your sins?

For example: if a man cheats on his wife and starts crying about how he needs to tell her to relieve himself of the guilt, is that cucked? Obviously I think cheating is wrong, but why couldn't you live within yourself if she doesn't know?

In situations like this, it's really just a big narcissistic jerk off that is cathartic for you, but will probably ruin your marriage. It does absolutely nothing good except for cause the wife great distress and destroy a family (depending on how you see the situation and the person).

In these situations, the person is subconsciously wants to be punished and it makes them nothing more than a mental midget.

>>13941860
This

Goddamn...

why is this considered one of the greatest books ever written?

Name a better novel. I'll wait.

>finish reading this
>I'm going to change my life
>be more warm and empathetic and open to others
>2 months later
>still a disgusting slob

Currently reading Crime and Punishment
It's a good read, I will probably read his other works after I finish reading Crime and Punishment, not sure about the order though.

Honestly the epilogue of this. Not because it's sad but because it resonated with me so much

I loved this so much. Is Brothers Karamazov the logical next step?

Holy fuck... It was perfect

>my name is Fyodor, and this has been
>a tale of Crime and Punishment
okay but what the fuck did he mean by this?

When Svidrigailov is talking about ghosts, is he just explaining his thought process about them or did it serve some plot narrative?

>Commit a crime
>Get punished lol

>"I agree that ghosts only appear to the sick, but that only proves that they are unable to appear except to the sick, not that they don't exist."

>"Ghosts are, as it were, shreds and fragments of other worlds, the beginning of them. A man in health has, of course, no reason to see them, because he is above all a man of this earth and is bound for the sake of completeness and order to live only in this life. But as soon as one is ill, as soon as the normal earthly order of the organism is broken, one begins to realize the possibility of another world; and the more seriously ill one is, the closer becomes one's contact with the other world. I thought of that long ago. If you believe in a future life, you could believe in that, too.

>"And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort?"

>"We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bath-house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is? I sometimes fancy it like that."

unironically scared me to death since my insanity has had some sort of link to spiders, im now wondering if Dostoevsky was as insane and if the thing he describes is actually real and a very universal peek to the otherness rather than some individual delusion

>>13021804

Can a novel be great if it's not indirectly about philosophy?

I'll start with pic related

>It wasn't that good...
what kind of person do you imagine

probably