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  1. Comment on What are you reading these days? #14 in ~books

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    I have Constance Garnett's translation.

    I have Constance Garnett's translation.

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  2. Comment on What are you reading these days? #14 in ~books

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    I just finished Dostoyevsky's The Bothers Karamazov for the second time. Last time I read it was several years ago, and after going through it this time I could tell that much of it went over my...

    I just finished Dostoyevsky's The Bothers Karamazov for the second time. Last time I read it was several years ago, and after going through it this time I could tell that much of it went over my head the first time (not to say I didn't love it then). The second time through turned out to be even more profound than last time. I love Dostoyevsky's writing, he is up there with my other favorite authors (like Vonnegut, Emerson, and Huxley). I'm now working through Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life also for the second time, and I can say the same thing for this book; I'm catching or seeing things more clearly this time through that I did the first time. I'm about to order $100+ worth of Russian literature; more Dostoyevsky (I've also read Crime and Punishment, Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, and Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago.

    Highly recommend anything from Dostoyevsky, especially his masterpiece The Brothers K.

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