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29 Jun 2019, 9:09 pm

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Finally -- getting to the non-Brontë part of my reading list. :heart:


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?



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29 Jun 2019, 9:17 pm

Wittgensteiner wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Finally -- getting to the non-Brontë part of my reading list. :heart:


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!


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29 Jun 2019, 9:39 pm

The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoevsky


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30 Jun 2019, 5:53 am

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The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoevsky

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



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01 Jul 2019, 8:59 pm

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



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08 Jul 2019, 5:45 am

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



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08 Jul 2019, 1:24 pm

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.


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12 Jul 2019, 10:17 pm

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13 Jul 2019, 4:26 am

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13 Jul 2019, 4:48 am

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13 Jul 2019, 4:51 am

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The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoevsky

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.



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13 Jul 2019, 5:08 am

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

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



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19 Jul 2019, 11:14 am

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.


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19 Jul 2019, 12:21 pm

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

cathylynn wrote:
Persephone29 wrote:
The Brothers Karamazov-Dostoevsky

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.

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.

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

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

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.