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nervous said:
What books have you guys read this year, and which ones did you like?

need some good recommendations.
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I just read the handmaids tale and pride and prejudice cause no time
 
Catlady said:
I just read the handmaids tale and pride and prejudice cause no time
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those are really good. read them a few years ago might need a refresh. do you prefer the books over the shows?
 
nervous said:
those are really good. read them a few years ago might need a refresh. do you prefer the books over the shows?
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I have not watched the shows
 
I’ll stick to the question (excluding strictly philosophical works)

Ouvres intimes (Stendhal)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)
Diary of a Madman (Gogol)
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Conan Doyle)
The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
The Leopard (Tomasi)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert, I’ve read it a second time)


I’ve changed my mind (these are tough reads)

A Treatise of Human Nature (Hume)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke)
Against Method (Feyerabend)
 
nervous said:
GOOD STUFF!!!

I’ve read a lot of Chekhov and Tolstoy… But I really really really want to read Dostoyevsky after I’m done. Which was your fav? I have a Russian copy of “idiot” so I’ll do that after your recommendation
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crime and punishment or white nights but i heard the brothers karamazov is better so im looking forward to that
 
nervous said:
GOOD STUFF!!!

I’ve read a lot of Chekhov and Tolstoy… But I really really really want to read Dostoyevsky after I’m done. Which was your fav? I have a Russian copy of “idiot” so I’ll do that after your recommendation
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i read it a bit
 
rose said:
crime and punishment or white nights but i heard the brothers karamazov is better so im looking forward to that
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The brothers Karamazov is his best work. Read The death of Ivan Ilyich and the hugely famous Anna Karenina, both by Tolstoy, if you haven’t already

And the Cossacks (perhaps not quite your taste)

And read the Master and Margarita (, Bulgakov) wonderful book
 
hurricane said:
The brothers Karamazov is his best work. Read The death of Ivan Ilyich and the hugely famous Anna Karenina, both by Tolstoy, if you haven’t already

And the Cossacks (perhaps not quite your taste)

And read the Master and Margarita (, Bulgakov) wonderful book
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ive watched the anna karenina movie but i havent read it i wna get to it eventually
the death of ivan Ilyich is pretty short tho so ill read it sooner
noted ur recs thank u
 
rose said:
ive watched the anna karenina movie but i havent read it i wna get to it eventually
the death of ivan Ilyich is pretty short tho so ill read it sooner
noted ur recs thank u
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Let me know if you have any specific favourite genres and I'll tell you more
 
rose said:
ive watched the anna karenina movie but i havent read it i wna get to it eventually
the death of ivan Ilyich is pretty short tho so ill read it sooner
noted ur recs thank u
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My absolute favorite by Tolstoy is master and man. Also quite short so I hope you try it out as well
 
hurricane said:
I’ll stick to the question (excluding strictly philosophical works)

Ouvres intimes (Stendhal)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Wilder)
Diary of a Madman (Gogol)
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Conan Doyle)
The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
The Leopard (Tomasi)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert, I’ve read it a second time)

I’ve changed my mind (these are tough reads)

A Treatise of Human Nature (Hume)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke)
Against Method (Feyerabend)
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thanks
 
aryaw said:
i meant i have read the idiot a bit i dint understand it fully so i left it
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ahh i get it. But I do urge you to return to it, something that helps me when I’m reading is annotating. I think my books sometimes hate me because of all the doodles and demarcations. But writing things down can help break it down into simpler chunks. There are also a few external resources that can help you understand. They don’t make books the way they used to, so I think it’s really important to at least try and make sense of it ☺️
 
nervous said:
ahh i get it. But I do urge you to return to it, something that helps me when I’m reading is annotating. I think my books sometimes hate me because of all the doodles and demarcations. But writing things down can help break it down into simpler chunks. There are also a few external resources that can help you understand. They don’t make books the way they used to, so I think it’s really important to at least try and make sense of it ☺️
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youre right, i have a harder time comprehending russian books i have a few of tolstoy i understood but i couldnt understand his writing
 
aryaw said:
youre right, i have a harder time comprehending russian books i have a few of tolstoy i understood but i couldnt understand his writing
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something that i keep in mind when reading Tolstoy is his constant contrast between reality and perceptions of self. his characters are all flawed. humans are unreliable narrators, and he does a good job of showing every side of a person.

look at him as an artist laying down a painting. production and how it’s read, and what response he wants out of it.

he has a lot of recurring themes so after reading a few of his stories it gets easier!

big ones are his relationship to death. he believes humans are purest in childhood and when they die. that can help explain why his characters start acting out of the ordinary the closer they are to leaving the earth. he leaves a “lesson” in every work. the second is the hermeneutic circle, the idea of if you understand the little things you can understand the big ideas. opposite is true as well. he gives lots of information before he even starts the story.

sorry for the rambling but Tolstoy is one of my favs and I hope this can help you even a bit
 
nervous said:
something that i keep in mind when reading Tolstoy is his constant contrast between reality and perceptions of self. his characters are all flawed. humans are unreliable narrators, and he does a good job of showing every side of a person.

look at him as an artist laying down a painting. production and how it’s read, and what response he wants out of it.

he has a lot of recurring themes so after reading a few of his stories it gets easier!

big ones are his relationship to death. he believes humans are purest in childhood and when they die. that can help explain why his characters start acting out of the ordinary the closer they are to leaving the earth. he leaves a “lesson” in every work. the second is the hermeneutic circle, the idea of if you understand the little things you can understand the big ideas. opposite is true as well. he gives lots of information before he even starts the story.

sorry for the rambling but Tolstoy is one of my favs and I hope this can help you even a bit
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this was interesting, ill keep it in mind while reading
 
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