Quote (hATemOnkEy @ Oct 9 2014 09:14pm)
Well, the reasons he joins the Freemasons are myriad. It's only after he joined that he decides to help his serfs (which he doesn't really succeed in).
As a work of literature, it's impressive. As a take on historical storytelling, it's pretty good as well.
As an actual story, it's boring as fuck. I'm struggling to keep reading, especially when Mary Bezukhov or Natascha Rostov are prominent. I hate those bitches
I read The Brothers Karamazov about a year ago. I think it's a much better book than War and Peace.
Haha yeah it took me a while to read it, I had to interrupt it with some easier fiction, I think I stopped and read Huxleys the island when I was halfway through it.
I agree that The brothers karamazov was a better book, I think dostoevsky was possibly the greatest novelist of all time. Kurt vonnegut wrote that everything there is to know about life can be found in the brothers karamazov and when someone asks me what it's about that's really all I can think to say. I think that is the only novel I've read more than 3 times and it has surprised me every time heh.
It's crazy to think that whole novel was just supposed to be the introduction to what dostoevsky planned to be his magnum opus. The fact that he died before he could write the full story is right up there with the destruction of the work of sophocles as some of the greatest tragedies in literature imo.
Crime and punishment, the gambler, and notes from underground are all great too. I bought The Idiot a few months ago but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
Srsly tho does no one else think bisping is a great bet with those odds?