I earnestly don’t get why anyone likes Dostoevsky. Maybe I need to read more Dostoevsky, but as of now, I think there’s a reason people wear big Orthodox crosses and say “I am a neehilist!” which is that Dostoevsky was indeed a nihilist. Like OK, so he goes to jail, and then he writes a bunch of books about insane sociopaths who went to jail.
There’s never a positive message anywhere in there. He basically just says life is like jail while you wait to be released into Heaven. Is that it? The Bible doesn’t actually say that, the Bible says you need to go help people and work miracles and things like that. It will take a lot of convincing to show me why I would ever want to read Dostoevsky when there are so many other, more appealing books I still haven’t finished, especially books on math and science, but there are even more appealing fiction books. The corporate feudalists should stop forcing their awful feudalist writing on us all, please.
I like Dostoevsky, but I do find I like Conrad, Scott, Dumas & Hugo better, I also don't get the humanities, loving Dostoevsky for so long, and Conrad, and Austen but despising the likes of Walter Scott, Alex Dumas and Victor Hugo, maybe because the latter three are imbued with much more humanity and tales of bravery and overcoming the odds.
I happen to like Dostoyevsky (maybe because i am a depressing person) but Nabokov agrees with you. While he considered Tolstoy the greatest novelist and Anna Karenina the greatest novel, he did not like Dostoyevsky at all. He felt he wasn't much of a writer.
Great piece. I feel some force of nature or society is coercing me to read The Brother's Karamazov and I'd not a huge fan of fiction. "I don't believe in illusions. 'Cause too much is for real." The Sex Pistols...
By many minds I respect it’s spoken of as one of the best ever written. Had I not encountered some of its ideas in the last couple years, my Christian upbringing would have closed the door on so much of the advancement of my own.
That book changed the way I view family & religion & holding on to faith & love when those first two are under attack is exactly what that book forces you to deal with. A challenge of the heart & spirit. Godspeed.
I like Dostoevsky, but I do find I like Conrad, Scott, Dumas & Hugo better, I also don't get the humanities, loving Dostoevsky for so long, and Conrad, and Austen but despising the likes of Walter Scott, Alex Dumas and Victor Hugo, maybe because the latter three are imbued with much more humanity and tales of bravery and overcoming the odds.
I happen to like Dostoyevsky (maybe because i am a depressing person) but Nabokov agrees with you. While he considered Tolstoy the greatest novelist and Anna Karenina the greatest novel, he did not like Dostoyevsky at all. He felt he wasn't much of a writer.
Great piece. I feel some force of nature or society is coercing me to read The Brother's Karamazov and I'd not a huge fan of fiction. "I don't believe in illusions. 'Cause too much is for real." The Sex Pistols...
May I suggest The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky..?
I feel it's my "duty" to read this novel. I don't know why I feel this way. And, gasp, I really don't even like fiction that much.
By many minds I respect it’s spoken of as one of the best ever written. Had I not encountered some of its ideas in the last couple years, my Christian upbringing would have closed the door on so much of the advancement of my own.
That book changed the way I view family & religion & holding on to faith & love when those first two are under attack is exactly what that book forces you to deal with. A challenge of the heart & spirit. Godspeed.