>tfw read no books for over a month because I read one at

>>2439117
This is the most pleb post I've read today. Good job brainlet.

Brothers K was a really good book. Incisive prose, insight on the nature of belief wrapped up in a compelling story.

I liked Crime & Punishment more though just for Rodion. Has anyone read Demons/The Possessed? Does it stack up to his other work?

>>2439117
People are going to call you a pleb for this, but I don't get Dostoevsky either, which is weird because I really like Russian Golden Age lit in general. I struggled through C&P, barely, and I've tried to read Brothers Karamazov in both Russian and English. Couldn't do it. Stopped after like page 300. Maybe there were fantastically insightful things about the human condition on page 301 but I wasn't having fun so I didn't read them.

Your comments about novels/literature in general are going too far though. One, the book is almost a century and a half old. It's survived for a reason. OK, so it's not to our tastes. It's not to most people's tastes, in the 21st century. But clearly people did derive genuine enjoyment from it or it wouldn't have survived quite a few decades during which literature and theater were basically the only games in town. You're also out of your mind if you think that pretentious "if you don't get it you're a moron" wanking is unique to literature -- have you ever fucking BEEN to a film festival? -- and literature isn't "close to death" unless you arbitrarily discount, you know, all of the shit that people do actually enthusiastically read, in which case you're guilty of pretty much the same thing you're railing against.

It's worth noting that Dostoevsky is by no means representative of 19th-century Russian lit even though he's one of its most famous authors. Tolstoy is NOTHING like Dostoevsky, not just in content but also in tone. War and Peace is a pretty fucking good war/adventure story that occasionally dips into philosophy. Tolstoy's writing much livelier and less introspective. There's political intrigue, duels to the death, lots of irresponsible drinking and gambling, adultery and scandalous love affairs, huge battle scenes, etc etc. Ditto for Pushkin's short stories and so on (I suspect you might not enjoy Chekhov though.)

>>2439117
>Brothers Karamazov is boring

REDDIIIIIIIT

I found it to be very insightful and I still think about the meaning of it to this day (read it like 10 years ago)

but it is ALSO very boring, it involves a lot of repetition, and it's a chore to read.

>>2439124
I tried to read Demons but it's extremely boring. I will try again though, the characters are quite interesting

>>2439124
yeah i read it a long time
from what i remember most of it is shitting on the heads of the characters non stop

Try The Idiot instead, I think it's better. Plus it's one of Mel Brooks' favorite books.