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Adam Bede! I loved the little bit of it I read, so I definitely wanna get to this one eventually! What do you think so far?

I think I just finished two other books in the past 24 hours! I've pulled it from my bookshelf and it's next in queue, because I'm on a mission to read all the books I bought in 2017/2018. This is from 2017 so long overdue, but I need to sleep before I start. I'll let you know! I love Eliot, too!

The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoevsky

The best book ever written, after the Bible itself. Let me know what you think.

Currently reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.

Kolyma Tales - Varlam Shalamov
Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Archetypal Psychology - James Hillman
The Last Days of Socrates - Plato

Ocdaniel

Obsessive compulsive disorder

Afterwar by Lilith Saintcrow.

Synopsis of Afterwar:
America has been devastated by a second civil war. The people have spent years divided, fighting their fellow patriots. Now as the regime crumbles and the bloody conflict draws to a close, the work of rebuilding begins.

One lonely crew, bonded under fire in the darkest days of battle, must complete one last mission: to secure a war criminal whose secrets could destroy the fragile peace that has just begun to form.

‘Tis,Frank McCourt.

Harry Potter is the best!! !

difficult discussions. - useful

loved it. loved alyosha for his sweetness and ivan for his wit and logic. kept being thrown by people passing out when they got emotional, though. it's not common.

my husband, a philosophy buff, wonders which plato dialogue this is - the apology?

Outrages Naoimi Wolf

I'm sad to report I've officially given up on Adam Bede.

I think I beat Redxk though. He suffered through 100 pages, while I managed 110.

It's almost exclusively dialogue with an insufferable dialect, there are too many characters, and I didn't like any of them.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

I've produced a list of my top ten Dostoevsky characters and posted it elsewhere on the site. My favourite Brothers K characters are as follows:

1. Alyosha Karamazov, the ideal of the Christian man.
2. Pavel Smerdyakov, the best-crafted and most hilariously tragic villain in fiction.
3. Fyodor Karamazov, a perfect illustration of the harmless but offensive ne'er-do-well type on the Russian model.
4. Father Zossima, for his sublime treatise on Christianity.
5. Katerina Ivanovna, for her sweetness and femininity.


Yes. It's the title given to the latter work, I think, in the Penguin Classics edition, and maybe elsewhere too. Apparently, we're too thick to understand that the word "apology" has meanings other than that of showing contrition.