I purchased this book a year or two ago and never got the chance to read it, but the more I see it sitting upon my shelf, the more I want to toss Moby Dick to the side and read The Brothers Karamazov! To aid my anticipation, who here thinks this book better than Crime and Punishment? as that is my favorite novel of all time, combating always with Dorian Gray.
Would you like to read the novel, and initiate a discussion about it? This might help your determination to read it.
Why, the whole point, the real sting of it lay in the fact that continually, even in the moment of the acutest spleen, I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not a spiteful. I am a sicker man! I might foam at the mouth, but bring me a doll to play with, bring me a cup of tea with sugar in it, and maybe I will be appeased! I might even genuinely be touched, though probably I should grind my teeth at myself afterward and lie awake at night with shame for months after. That is my way.
I just feel like I have to finish Moby Dick first!
I do.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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You do what?
Well finish Moby Dick then read the Brothers K, where's the problem?Originally Posted by Dr. Hill
Et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines
Apollinaire, Le chantre
He thinks TBK is better than C&P, answering the question you asked. I agree, btw.
Anyway - surely, Moby Dick can't be that much of a bother? - as Etienne put it, just read the book and then move on to Dostoevsky.
Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.
Miroslav Krleža
There isn't much of a problem, except that I fear I may be too wrapped up in what I've heard of Brother's Karamazov to enjoy Moby Dick for what IT'S worth. There isn't a real problem, it's all in my silly little impatient head :P
I started it a few days ago and am falling in love!
I wouldn't say it's better than C&P, just different. I'm only a little over half way through C&P, but so far I've found the characters in TBK to have far more depth and interaction. A lot of the fun with TBK is watching each of the brothers interact and their ideas clash, both with each other and later themselves. A few of the chapters involving Ivan and Alyosha are some of the best ever written in literature.
That's not to put down C&P. It's a fine book, but The Brothers Karamazov is a masterpiece. Enjoy it, and read it slowly. I don't have the time to reread it fully, but if you want to post on a couple chapters or plot points, I'll join in.
TBK is like all of Dostoevsky combine, and it's the best. It is one of those books that while reading it you close and think for a wile, and when something happen you get all jumpy
btw im thinking of reading Mobi Dick, I know it is a classic and it is a known book and it must be good
but you don't seem very enthusiastic...
Touched by Genius. Cursed by Madness. Blinded by Love.
The Brothers Karamazov in my mind is quite a bit better than Crime and Punishment.
Edit: By the Way Bazarov, nice avatar
Thanks. Yours is also very nice.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
The Brothers Karamazov is one of my favorite pieces of literature. I hope you enjoy when you finally get around to reading it. It makes your thoughts go in places it doesn't want to go. It's wonderful. A masterpiece.
I'm losing all those stupid games
That I swore I'd never play
Of course it can be a masterpiece looking at it from a particular lens. From another another books may come up.
Anyway Dostoevsky is really a great artist.
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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