Currently have about 25 pages to go in Victor LaValle's
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TaraDeS — 9 months ago(June 27, 2025 01:19 PM)
sheetsadam1 June 27, 2025 03:08 PM
Member since April 22, 2025
Ah, interesting.
Is Germany, the world's fourth-largest military, planning to do anything about it?
Nothing.
We trust your $Trump that Putler won't attack a NATO country as long as $Trump is POTUS. -
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sheetsadam1 — 9 months ago(June 11, 2025 02:14 PM)
The Stalin book looks interesting. On a similar note, I read this one relatively recently (back to back with Obama's memoir, in fact lol):
I need to read Dostoevsky and more Russian literature in general at some point. I hear that
The Brothers Karamazov
is his true masterpiece, so I might start there.
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Sofie, RAF — 9 months ago(June 11, 2025 02:21 PM)
yes, The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoevsky's magnum opus and the very last novel that he wrote. it's also his longest. so, maybe a better way getting into him would be something else, maybe? for many the gateway novel into Dostoevsky is
Crime and Punishment
or even
Notes from Underground
, but yeah, if you feel like you wanna start right away with
the
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sheetsadam1 — 9 months ago(June 11, 2025 02:28 PM)
Yeah, I've heard a lot about
Notes from the Underground
too and it apparently served as an inspiration for some other cool things I like. So that may be a good suggestion. My entire knowledge of 19th century Russian literature is limited to Kropotkin and some of Tolstoy's later theological works
But Bulgakov's
The Master and Margarita
is in my all-time top ten, so I'm sure I'll be into that stuff when I finally get around to it.
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Sofie, RAF — 9 months ago(June 11, 2025 02:35 PM)
Russian literature is my fav, honestly and i've made it my mission to read literally everything Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy have written in my lifetime lol i really want to delve into other Russian writers' work as well, like Turgenev, Chekhov and yes, also Bulgakov, so i really have a lot left to do then.
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cryptoflovecraft — 9 months ago(June 20, 2025 07:25 PM)
I've read both of those. Young Stalin is a good biography. Demons (The Possessed) is, of course, one of Dostoevsky's finest and most tragic novels. I always considered it to be his most political work (along with Poor Folk). At that point in his life (1870s), Dostoevsky had seen enough of revolutionary movements and the unsavory characters that were attracted to them. Demons is Dostoevsky's criticism of such individuals and movements; people that put politics before their basic humanity tend to lead disastrous lives and equally disastrous political movements.
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Sofie, RAF — 9 months ago(June 29, 2025 06:51 PM)
yes, well said. and it's also interesting that Simon Sebag Montefiore was directly referring to Demons in his biography about Stalin. the young Stalin loved Dostoevsky's book.
i haven't finished Young Stalin yet but i have finished Demons and it's an instant fav. what a fantastic novel that is and i was already a huge Dostoevsky fan before i read this.
