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What's a movie you had to watch in pieces because it disturbed you, but you learned to love it? (piefed.muxika.org)
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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have yet to return to Crime and Punishment. I read the first 2000 pages or so, in a couple of weeks, so only a 1000 to go.

But now it's been so long, so I probably have to start all over. Is it worth it? I really enjoyed it, but the book is almost 700 pages long, and so much of it is description of war battles, and these battles were not really interesting for me. Did you enjoy the description of these battles? They take up so much of the book, and I felt the didn't that much to the story line, but the intention and meaning of these battles have probably just went over my head.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Haha! A subtle nod to my boo boo. Touché pussycat.

    Crime and Punishment was Dostoyevsky, not Tolstoy. You correctly invoked Tolstoy's War and Peace.

    He too was an amazing writer. I loved War and Peace. The elaborate battle scenes appeal to my inner armchair general and love of military history. I considered it a gift, not a burden or crime worthy of punishment. ;)

    Edit: But Dostoyevsky was the master of Russian grief and gloom. Just thinking about him makes me want to go back to Brothers Karamazov and Notes from the Underground.

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