How is it even possible to dislike this? It is the NGE of literature.
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How is it even possible to dislike this? It is the NGE of literature.
How is it even possible to dislike this? It is the NGE of literature.
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>it is the NGE of literature
anon, i...
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>How is it even possible to dislike this? It is the NGE of literature.
But I dislike NGE, anon; and I feel like I have perfectly valid reasons for not liking it
I honestly disliked it. Didn't hate it or anything, but I come from the world of poetry, so aesthetic/poetic writing is what I prefer. Sadly, throughout this novel, I just hated being told what was happening. It's written in an extremely matter of fact style with expository dumps that at times I felt like I was reading a plot synopsis on Wikipedia.
>but I come from the world of poetry, so aesthetic/poetic writing is what I prefer
are you a woman or just gay?
No, I'm a guy who appreciates good writing, you must be the other guy.
If you don't care for aesthetics, you're the bigger homosexual
women are the more aesthetic sex, therefore have no taste for aesthetics is gay. Go frick a big burly hairy man, homosexual, while I appreciate the soft silky pearl that is the female form
this is the gayest post I've ever read
When did style and aesthetics in literary discourse devolve into incels b***hing that its gay or feminine? Like, sorry if daddy Dosto just spells everything out for you, which isn't a bad thing, but it makes for poor literary writing. Just a fact. Great philosophical writer who implements his ideas in literature, but is it good literature on its own? Frick no. It's garbage.
>Sadly, throughout this novel, I just hated being told what was happening.
He only tells you what's happening plotwise. You have to read between the lines for the actual message.
Agreed except for the last point. I like to think IJ ends at the first graveyard scene.
>It is the NGE of literature.
What, so juvenile and basic?
Personally don't like crime fiction/murder mysteries.
it was way to long, only interesting parts where the ivan/alyosha chapters, the onion chapter and the zosima chapter, i did not care for dimitri and for the whole stupid trial, i did not care for the father either. would have been better if it focused more on ivan and alyosha than wasting so many pages on dimitri and his money problems, also too many women in this book
>i did not care for the father either
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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.
I didn't like the first 2/3s of it. I just found it boring and didn't care about this love triangle involving people I've never heard of. Put it down several times. I thought the last 1/3 was very good. It definitely makes you think a lot, but it was mostly not an enjoyable experience.
Believe it or not this was the first book i've ever read
>NGE of literature
you mean it's overrated shit?
should I read Dosto's other books first?
TBK pulls from all of his other works. You should at the very least read Crime and Punishment first.
Read Crime and Punishment, Notes From Underground, and The Idiot first.
Go back to IQfy, homosexual.
>Wow, this sophisticated Russian literature is just like my hecking Asian cartoons!
OP, with all due respect, you are a huge fricking homosexual and should stay back at IQfy.
This thread… my god… the absolute STATE of IQfy…
Someone post the Brothers Karamozov anime opening screencap
>It's le X of le Y
shut the frick up
>the NGE of literature
it's not boring unreadable dreck whose only saving grace is having attractive females as part of its cast, so no
Whats NGE
The star wars of Japan
>Dostoslop
No thanks.
Actually Infinite Jest is more akin to IQfy's NGE than The Brothers Karamazov
>Both were written in the 90s
>Both written at the height of author's depression
>Both take places in a post apocalyptic setting with a school being where the main cast gather
>Himself=Gendo Ikari both Hal and Shinji are heavily estranged from their fathers and the shadows of their actions weigh heavily upon their consciousness Himself creating video tapes and eventually The Master Entertainment while Gendo was focused on working with Nerv trying to "save humanity"
>Both end on a beach
>It is the NGE of literature.
As someone who even watched some anime: fricking have a nice day.
NGE is the world's best pseud filter
troony shite? Yeah.