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Personally, I think Alyosha Karamazov was a slightly more convincing and inspiring character, though obviously along the same lines as Prince Myshkin. Still an immensely enjoyable book though - and Dostoyevsky's personal favourite among his works. I never liked Crime and Punishment though: too macabre, though the ending was good.

I haven't read The Idiot in years, but yes it's magnificent.

I enjoy "Notes From Underground." And some of his other early works.

Notes from Underground was a slightly immature and adolescent work; the same qualities as its protagonist.

What I love about Dostoyevsky is his psychological perspicuity and his grasp of the absurdities of post-Enlightenment liberalism. I think in this regard he was never bested before and hasn't been bested since. He foresaw, alone among the great figures of the nineteenth century (all intoxicated by the idea of "progress") the so-called "twentieth century nightmare", and he foresaw how it was a direct consequence of Western man's relinquishing of Christianity. And yet at the same time he cuts an immensely more intellectually respectable figure than the mere bourgeois Christian apologist his critics make him out to be; he was more acutely aware than any of the nihilists of just how rationally untenable religious belief had become, but this is the essence of the twentieth century nightmare, and presumably by implication the twenty-first also: the rational inadmissibility of faith, tradition and family loyalties and the opposing moral inadmissibility of the liberalism of a Marquis de Sade, which is the logical conclusion of any kind of liberalism in the modern world. This is the Sylla and Charybdis that the world faced last century, and we're still reeling as a result. Dostoyevsky foresaw all of this and sought that simple, decent humanity would prevail. This is the beauty of his work.

Dinsdale, Ann, et al. Charlotte Brontë : The Lost Manuscripts. West Yorkshire, United Kingdom: The Brontë Society, 2018.

LOST MANUSCRIPTS

I waited patiently for this publication and I'm finally starting to read!

The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East - 2017 Updated version
by Abraham Rabinovich

George Sand - Indiana

Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide. Charles Foster

"emotional first aid"

Says that if someone values everyone, including himself , lowly, he does not have low self esteem



That is what I was wondering about for a long time.

Precious lil "people" act so f*****g entitled. Like they are "important" because they are important to someone else


A counselor tried to tell me that


Wrong


Even if Edison and Einstein were not to have been alive, someone else would have made those invention

If nobody else made them, species continue living

If humans extinct, then what


When precious lil "people" act like I am worthless and, they Are important, that gets on my nerves

When they act like everyone is worthless, that can't be vetoed

The stranger-Albert Camus

Is that the one where the man is imprisoned for killing a Tunisian? Personally, I've only read that one, in English translation, and La Peste in the French, but Camus' French is a nightmare to make sense of.

Just finished "After Anna" by Alex Lake and "The choice" by Samantha King
both were exciting thrillers


Currently reading "Brother in the land" by Robert Swindells and "Stranger in the house" by Shari Lapena
so far so good

David Griffiths - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

"my new York marathon"


"Why we are bad", obsessive compulsive disorder girl

I've just began reading it so i'm not sure! It's going good for now, no murders hahah!