>>24865150
>Filtered

1st page

>>24865150
Nigga look like Pre Malone

>>24865150
the last 200 pages

>>24865179
It‘s consistently funny when people try using this word as a decontextualized deflection from criticism against their favorites.

>>24865150
This is an incredibly slow book, but worth it OP. Things start ramping up a little in Part 2. Part 3 is where shit gets good. It's also probably the most soul crushing, tragic ending I have read in fiction

>>24865430
Alright, sounds good. My biggest issue with Dostoevsky is his consistency. Apart from House of the Dead and maybe The Gambler, they've all been very messy. This one is consistently fine so far though, so I'll see where it takes me.

The slowest of slow burns by the slowest of burners.
This is why I always say read C&P last because it's like a nice dessert after TBK & Demons
>>24865430
Yup

>>24865150
Just watch La Chinoise, it's better, funnier and contemporary.

>>24866296
Watch what? Wrong board, retard.
>contemporary
Who cares, you faggot?

>>24865150
The cover, when you see "Dostoyevsky."

>>24865150
i would say when our hero pyotr stepanovich makes his enterance, which i imagine you've alreqdy reached, so maybe this one isn't for you. is this your first dosto? it should really be read last.
>>24865209
i love this one but that is certainly not true.

>>24865150
>>24865230
I agree, the last 200 pages. But even then it never gets as gripping as Crime and Punishment

>>24866908
>he doesn't know one of the best films from one of the greatest filmmakers of all time
ngmi

>>24865150
Greatest novel of all time - my absolute favourite. Truly sublime. So many marvelous moments and marvelous characters.

One of my favourites:
When Shatov is trying to recover his pistol from one of his will-be murderers to pawn for cash for his child. Awful!

>>24865150
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.

>>24866931
>>24865430
>>24865230
>>24865150
Dostoevsky is pseud.

>>24868228
I don't watch films as it's one of the lowest tier art forms, cinematard — I read books. This is a literature board, fuck off.

>>24866934
>is this your first dosto?
No, it's actually my 9th. I've also read Crime and Punishment three times.
>it should really be read last.
The Brothers Karamazov will be the last Dostoevsky work I read, most likely forever. If it won't be my favorite work by him, I'll be very disappointed.