Do you finish books you consider to be boring, or stop reading?

You won't gain anything if you just read the words on the page and move from page to page. Do you even remember what happened 5 pages ago? You are just wasting your time if that's the case.

This is why I keep what I read mostly to myself. Though I'll admit that 've read some books that I read because of their social value.

For some reading books is just another way to signal to other people - or more specific - the opposite sex virtue, class and so on and so on

But Karamazov is fun, Its a murder mystery full of characters crazier than anything you'll see in lame crime tv shows.

>>9675523

I've said it before. If you say it's boring, the pseuds will claim it has profound philosophical insights. When you say it isn't insightful and is just vaudeville strawmen to fill up a word count and for Dostoevsky to take half assed potshots at socialists and atheists, they claim "DUDE TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF, HAVE FUN"

>>9675537
Except that he planned for Alyosha to be a terrorist in later parts - the 'sinner' of his ultimate Life of a Sinner plan. Also, there are moments where Dostoyevsky has ironic takes on religion - like how Zossima is treated after his majestic mystical speech.

It's the structure of the polyphony that makes Dostoyevsky profound & ensures that not one ideology gains a stronghold - not just the content. Also he's fun as well.

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>>9675559
>that not one ideology gains a stronghold

>>9675578
He tried to write a satire of the nihilist sort in Notes from the Underground but ended up writing one of the earliest existentialist works. And everyone cares more about the philosophy of Raskolnikov while ignoring the redemptive ending of C&P.

Basically, despite trying to be a Christian propagandist, he was too good of a writer to achieve what he wanted.

>>9675537
It's not for nothing that he's considered one of the greatest novelists of all time.
Why should you care about what these "pseuds" say? You know what they are, don't listen to them

I never finished a book in my whole life

>>9675494
Yeah, I do. Sometimes it's because I'm not in the mood for it, sometimes it's because I simply can't stand the style. I don't think there's any shame in that, so long as you don't become opinionated towards the book when you haven't even read it. You may say you didn't like it, but not that it was"bad", I think.

>>9675494
Coffee, junk food, Chads, Stacies, London

Lifting, academia-publishing industrial complex

>tfw to smart for philosophy and to smart to read

>>9675494
>I want to finish them to get that sweet, sweet pseudo intellectual cred

Well there you go bro. Stop reading them, then. Sure, you'll get pseud-cred, but what about real cred? Torturing yourself through some book you hate just because of it's renown is retarded.

>>9675494
>I want to finish them to get that sweet, sweet pseudo intellectual cred
I hate you