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... in November:
Antigona and Me
The Criminal Mind
The Book of Unholy Mischief
Daddy Long Legs
My Antonia
Notes From Underground
Under the Dome
Beowulf on the Beach
Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical
The Various Haunts of Men
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Men W ...
... (at the latest - just a suggestion) and you'll be ready for the granddaddy of all Dostoy reads (and maybe you can sneak in Notes from Underground too; it's short (under 150 pages) but so dense (yet philosophically overarching his entire work, especially what came after) that it might as well be ...
"Ivan Ilyich for the list..." #23
Definitely!
And Dostoevskyʻs Notes from Underground is short enough and great enough; only if it strikes you as it did me, it wonʻt SEEM short.
... others that have taken weeks. Normally, I don't care as long as it arrives in the end but I'm now stuck halfway through Notes From Underground , which is dire, as I can only read very short books in case Dome turns up.
Skeelo would much appreciate a long-distance Scottie-lick if there's ...
... don't want to be stuck in the middle of an 800-pager when it gets here so I'm on short books only right now - starting with Notes From Underground .
... John Buchan. Loved the Chekhov. I can best describe it as an Agatha Christie mystery narrated by the lead character in Notes from Underground only he's speaking in Bertie Wooster's voice.
The Buchan was a rip-snortin' good time. Highly recommended.
As usual, just nipped into Waterstones to pick up my free mag and came out with Notes From Underground , Antigona and Me, The Black Spider, The Atheist's Guide to Christmas, The Vagrants, The Book of Unholy Mischief, The Angel's Game and that's to add to yesterday's Culpepper's Gerbal ...
... and write much better.
It's worth bearing in mind that all great literature is very insular. Think The Leopard, think Notes from Underground , think Dubliners: all written to specific historical circumstances and places, and yet transcending them. The reason why we read Dostoevksy, Dickens ...
... known classics and then expand on whichever style, author, nationality or time period you prefer. Crime and Punishment or Notes from the Underground are both very good and are nice introductions to Russian Literature and Existentialism. If you like that sort of book you can read other Russian ...
... is the result of a pathologically foregrounded consciousness, something Dostoevsky was very aware of in The Double and Notes from Underground .
... I have not read yet:
The Insulted and Humiliated - (Published 1861)
The House of the Dead - (Published 1862)
Notes from Underground - (Published 1864)
The Idiot - (Published 1869)
The Possessed - (Published 1872)
The Raw Youth or The Adolescent - (Published 1875)
... Kawabata 4/5
Genesis by Bernard Beckett - a brilliant little gem in a small way, which I hope to review later 4/5
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - unsettling, bad for the digestive tract, but brilliant 4.5/5
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - surprisingly ...
... Kawabata 4/5
Genesis by Bernard Beckett - a brilliant little gem in a small way, which I hope to review later 4/5
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - unsettling, bad for the digestive tract, but brilliant 4.5/5
The Hunger Games by by Suzanne Collins - surprising ...
... and I can't come with anything better. With all this going on in your head, I'm really looking forward to your take on Notes from the Underground - you're going to force me to re-read it.
... come to me. What about if a salonista invites others to join in on anything they are reading. For example, I plan to read Notes from Underground before the end of the year, and would welcome anyone to join in.
The ones in bold on your list are definitely ON, though, right?
... to the pre-Socratics. Who would have thought YA fiction capable of managing such a stunt? Today, I did manage to read Notes from the Underground . It isn't M&M , but it is Russian. Does that count?
P.S. Murrushka, I was wondering about the Salon business myself. Today, I ...
... - inspired by a display in a bookshop. looking at the darkside of human nature (this could change again though)
1 Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2 Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
3 Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr
4 In this way I was saved by Brian DeLeeu ...
40. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (category 2) ****
This was nutty! The only Russian lit I'd read before was Notes from Underground and was expecting something equally bleak and angry. Imagine my surprise at how whimsically Bulgakov wrote (writes?), especially since one of his ...
... years, at least, to get through. My dad read it off-and-on, among all his other WWII histories, for several decades!
Notes From Underground has been on my shelf with a bookmark in it for several months. That's really pathetic because it's a tiny book. I just have no will to pick it up ...
... (moving from NYC and his super great job to Lahore, Pakistan), but it really wasn't there. Still, worth reading.
#79 Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (re-read)
I just do not understand this little book. At all. I enjoy reading it, but I don't get it at all. Some things ...
... I found it tricky to get into and stick with.
I won't be giving up on Dostoevsky, especially since the volume includes Notes from the Underground and The Eternal Husband. But I'll probably get to those after this challeneg is over.
... health treatment.
Incidentally, The Double is only one third of the Three Short Novels anthology, which also includes Notes from the Underground and The Eternal Husband. I was originally going to read the whole anthology for this challenge, but frankly found it a little intimidating.
...
listening to Notes from underground driving back and forth to work to my job as a government contractor... I am obviously going to have to listen to it more than once since themes keep on repeating themselves recursively with slight variations. I hope I'm not totally out to lunch finding a lot of ...
listening to Notes from underground driving back and forth to work to my job as a government contractor... I am obviously going to have to listen to it more than once since themes keep on repeating themselves recursively with slight variations. I hope I'm not totally out to lunch finding a lot ...
REREAD
61. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
On with Dostoevsky for the Author Theme Reads group! I read this one long before (back when I was in ...
... than a surfeit of floaters. I just get grumpy when i can't read or exercise.
I think i'm gonna look for an audiobook of notes from the underground so i'll have listened to it before i read it in a few weeks.
#113 I love Notes from the Underground ... if you read that you might as well tackle Ellison's Invisible Man (if you haven't already)...
#116 I haven't read Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Honestly, I don't even have a decent excuse as to why not... Maybe I'll read it this summer.
... Iran and Sfar's the Rabbi's cat as an exemplar of the appropriation of the "silly" genre for profound art.
next up, Notes from the underground having been convinced by tomcat ( and others) that I really do need to fill a gaping hole in my reading history.
... Iran and Sfar's the Rabbi's cat as an exemplar of the appropriation of the "silly" genre for profound art.
next up, Notes from the underground having been convinced by tomcat ( and others) that I really do need to fill a gaping hole in my reading history.
Ha! the Tao of being! Nice one! Agreed about Fraud.
Bob, if you going to read only one Russian novel this year, make it Notes From Underground . It's short, and exemplifies what I mean about Dostoevsky's creation of the modern self most clearly and neatly. I will be very interested to hear what ...
... the Falling Snow , the latest novel by Caryl Phillips, which was a disappointment. I'll resume Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky , and continue More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in ...
... Dante
The Emigrants by Sebald
Bleak House by Dickens
The Brothers Karamozov by Dostoevsky
Macbeth Shakespeare
Notes From the Underground Dostoevsky
War and Peace by Tolstoy
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Although I guess for the valuable impact they had I think I'd also ...
>8 I would start with Notes From Underground , then move on to Crime and Punishment. NFU is almost like a precursor to C&P. Then move on to The Idiot, and follow up with Brothers. After those move on to the lesser-knowns, like Demons.
I'm a bit of a Dostoevsky nut, btw.
... bookshop in Cambridge.
Came across a couple of references to Zamyatin's We being influenced moderately well by Notes from the Underground . I also did some web searching when I got back and a couple more references, drawing the lines fron Notes from the Underground to We to 1984 ...
... Baraka . I'll plan to start Nocturnes, the new collection of short stories by Kazuo Ishiguro tomorrow, and Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky after that.
wookiebender>>> Anna Karenina was my first Russian too, so maybe you should give Dostoyevsky a try after all. Notes from Underground is not scary at all! (I'm trying one Russian per SIY challenge to keep myself going.)
crimson-tide>>> You're back already! Time flies... I'll get How Proust ...
Has anyone ever read Notes from Underground ? I'm currently doing something very atypical of me - reading two books at once (White Teeth before bed, Notes from Underground via DailyLit) - but I'm really enjoying my obligatory Russian for this SIY quarter.
I just wanted to share this quote ...
28. Notes from underground - Dostojevski
I like his style: ironic, dark humour. Think: stream of consiousness avant la lettre.
The narrator can't be trusted, but you somehow do. I still don't know why. Maybe because I think he's sympathic.
You know he can't be trusted because he constantly ...
#9 - I'd probably start with the short stories, perhaps Notes from the Underground , simply because they are short - but that's partially because I had a false start with Brothers and haven't gotten back to it yet. It's long, and takes quite a bit of concentration and thought. Brothers is now on ...
>157 - Notes from Underground , interesting text to choice, convenient for me because I have studied it twice - once for a course of Russian classics, and once for a course on Existential literature - so I do understand both arguments. There is a fundamental difference in the approach of both ...
... understood about an author's beliefs might well be popular misconceptions.
Dostoevsky (who he?) is a case in point.
Notes from Underground was written as a political response to the debate between the Westernisers and the Slavophiles, a debate which has largely been buried under the ...
... vsky
I am reading Mochulsky's biography of Dostoevsky as I slowly read through the Dostoevsky canon.
I am reading Dostoevsky's letters in parallel with the biography.
I have also been dipping in and out of:
The Icon and the Axe
A history of Russian Literature
Belinsky, Cher ...
... on a student visa and falls in love with an Englishman.
Later this week I'll probably read Breath by Tim Winton, Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky, and Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʾo.
Edited to correct information about my ...
... (The Twin ) by Gerbrand Bakker last night. I'll probably read A Tale of Two Lions by Roberto Ransom and Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky after that, and then restart Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie.
... with Dostoyevsky. He's got both Karamazov Brothers and Crime and Punishment, to say nothing of The Idiot and Notes From the Underground .
Thoughts?
... One, A Handful of Dust
| . . . War and Peace, broad-hipped Natalya, historicity
| . . . . . . Russian Thinkers
v-Notes from Underground
| . . . The Icon and the Axe
v-We (Modern . . .), Notes from Underground realized
| . . . Soviet Heretic
| . . . Prisoners of Power
| . ...
... Cupboard, not to mention all the Sweet Valley Twins books.
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky. It has ruined the big D for me for a while.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
The best new book was ...
... on the scoreboard for April, having finished Brain Surgeon by Keith Black, MD this morning. I'll try to finish Notes of the Underground by Dostoevsky and Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello this weekend, and get back to Burnt Shadows by Kamila Sham ...
... making that a going concern. It's not really until 1864 and 1866 that he really established his overwhelming presence with Notes from Underground , and Crime and Punishment respectively.
Tolstoy at this stage was a minor figure, famous for his reporting of the Crimean War (Sevastopol Sketche ...
... by Suzanne Weyn
1/31/09 - 2/1/09, ***1/2
#12: Eldest by Christopher Paolini
2/1/09 - 2/8/09, ****
#13: Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2/8/09 - 2/15/09, (half a star)
Reviewed
#14: Children of the River by Linda Crew
2/13/09 - 2/16/09, **1/2
Reviewed
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... There are seeds of this in Golyadkin (the very early The Double) but this idea really starts to come to the fore in Notes from the Underground , and then forms the basis of such characters as Raskolnikov, Hippolyte, et al.
I was interested in your remarks about modern cognitive ...
... Goriot which still needs to be finished (60 more pages I think?)
Then I have tried starting:
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Notes from Underground Dostoevsky
And I want to read another Romain Gary, mostly La promesse de l'aube.
Can't decide, can't decide...
25. Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky
Notes From Underground was not an enjoyable book to read. So I was surprised to find myself flagging sections, taking notes and just generally being unable to put it down. It was like watching a train wreck. In the first half, the narrator seems to be ...
25. Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky
Notes From Underground was not an enjoyable book to read. So I was surprised to find myself flagging sections, taking notes and just generally being unable to put it down. It was like watching a train wreck. In the first half, the narrator seems to be ...
27. Notes from Underground , Fyodor Dostoevsky; I've always enjoyed Russian lit, but this is the first Dostoevsky I've read - and it was long overdue. The narrator really gets under your skin, and I think the only other book that's had a similar effect on me was Perfume, by Patrick Suskind). ...
I'll be starting Cutting for Stone next. I'll also read Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky this week.
I just finished reading A Journey Round My Skull by the Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy, which is a literary account of the symptoms, diagnosis, and successful removal of his ...
... Verghese, and one or more of the three Dostoevsky books I've purchased recently, The Double, The Gambler, or Notes from Underground .
OK, off to bed...
... of a journey inside the brain, remains one of the very best."—Oliver Sacks, from the Introduction.
I also bought Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
... And thanks again, aruba, for telling me about A Journey Round My Skull. I just bought it from Borders, along with Notes from Underground .
So I will be starting off with Notes from Underground . Anyone care to join me? :)
... books for me. I never buy books and yet suddenly I'm being flooded with them!
Today I bought:
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Welcome, cmt!
Today from various booksellers:
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Au Bonheur des Dames by Emile Zola
Hi Judylou.
18 books thus far! Congratulations.
I read some Dostoevsky books in college and Notes from the Underground was one of them that, like you, I simply could not get into it.
I finished Notes from the Underground . Can't say I enjoyed it. But at least I finished it :)
I finished another one from the 1001 list Notes from the Underground , but I haven't counted it officially, hoping to read all of the ones I have added to the category from my TBR books.
18. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I didn't find this an easy book to read. It was confusing and frustrating. The first part was uninteresting (IMO) but the second part was better. I think that because I read this through Daily Lit, and took much, much longer than I ...
I finished Notes from the Underground - it was a bit of a chore at times. I think I will read The Yellow Wallpaper next.
Yes, it is a nice read. I love folktales and stories like that.
On a completely different track, how about Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky?
I think I'll start with Poor Folk and The Double; however, the first book I'm eager to read is Notes From the Underground , especially because it is supposedly the first existentialist novel (I'm very fond of Camus, de Beauvoir, and Sartre).
The only work on this list that I've read, to my ...
-133 I remember having trouble finishing Notes from the Underground . I was surprised because The Brothers Karamazov is one of my favorites.
...
106.Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne
107.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Louis Carroll
108.Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky
109.The Water Babies Charles Kingsley
110.Moby Dick Herman Melville
I have been struggling with Notes from the Underground for some time now. I am reading it via DailyLit and have quite a backlog of emails to get through now! Has anyone else read this one and enjoyed, or even appreciated, it? Or is it just me?
Thanks suslyn.
How are you liking Notes From the Underground ?
I decided to read it as an appetiser before starting on Crime and Punishment, a slightly more ambitious undertaking. The only Dostoyevsky I've read before is The House of the Dead, which I remember I enjoyed, to the extent that ...
Enjoyed your thread thus far. I've just begun reading Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky online at WOWIO
... for adding the link, Tim, I'm flattered. :)
To answer your question, I have a passion for 19th Century lit. I read Notes from Underground , probably at least once a year: it's one of my all time faves. This year I wanted to immerse myself in depth in one writer. It was a toss up between D ...
Category 3: Cost me £2.00 or less
1 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. £1.80. 5*.
2 Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky. £1.25. 3*.
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I LOVE cheap books (who doesn't), esp Penguin Popular Classics, Dover Thrift, Wordsworth.
Probable reads:
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6 Another short one finished: Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky.
Strange and unnerving. The story is narrated by an unnamed man who, if not actually mad, is certainly unstable and consumed with self-loathing.
He describes his thoughts and goes on to describe an event in his life ...
... Little Women
34. Therese Raquin
35. Journey to the Center of the Earth
36. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
37. Notes from the Underground
38. Great Expectations
39. Madame Bovary
40. Agnes Grey
41. Jane Eyre
42. A Christmas Carol
43. Frankenstein
44. Persuasion
...
... George Eliot, 1960's
40. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev, 2008
41. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, 1980's
42. Notes From the Underground, Dostoevsky , 1968
42. *Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, 2008
43. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 1987
44. Crime ...
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I have just finished this modest book: my first Dostoyevsky book, actually. What a fantastic read. I was completely hooked and stayed up late to finish it.
Wasn't there a little something in all of us that could be found in the main character? ...
I've just ordered white tiger
Hopefully will finish off Notes from the Underground either tonight or tomorrow and can start and finish Kim by Hogmanay.
From the 78 books I've read this year, the following are my favorite:
A Clockwork Orange
Crime and Punishment
Notes from Underground
Seize the Day
Fatelessness
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
The Old Man and the Sea
One Hundred Years of Soli ...
Hi, everybody! I'm eager to get started, and I plan to coordinate this challenge with my upcoming Reading Globally thread, which will start in Chile.
Books Read in 2009:
January:
1. 2666 by Roberto Bol ...
... quote last weekend in a review of Richard Flanagan's new book "Wanting". The book's epigraph is a quote from Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground . I thought it was very pertinent to the way we BookCrossers think about the acquisition of yet more books! :D
"You see, reason, gentlemen, is a ...
... of Dorian Gray by Edgar Allan Poe
6 - Emma by Jane Austen
3 - New York Stories of Edith Wharton
3 - Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2 - The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffman
2 - The Rover, Oroonoko and Other Works by Aph ...
I seem to have missed this thread somehow ... plenty I haven't read yet here, but of those I have, I nudge Notes from Underground , The Turn of the Screw (I haven't read The Aspern Papers) and The Invention of Morel. Bioy Casares was a close associate of Borges and his reputation tends to ...
... in Wonderland always holds up to a reread. Something new seems to pop up as memorable every time you read it.
Notes from Underground is a good place to start if you've never read Dostoyevsky. Not quite as daunting as his classic doorstops but full of that bass, rumbling, underdog ...
...
Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
**Award Winners**
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (2003 Pulitzer)
The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999 Pulitzer)
A ...
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
... reading)
A Raisin in the Sun
The Sun Also Rises (number nine! I'm cheating!)
Russian
Dead Souls
The Double
Notes From the Underground
Eugene Onegin
The Enchanter
Invitation to a Beheading
The Defense
Speak, Memory* (also: American)
French
French or Foe
Pari ...
... her journalistic work)
-- A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn as a novel for Russia, and Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky as the nonfiction
-- and I'd love to suggest fiction for India, but all of my favorite Indian writers live in England rather ...
Finished Notes From the Underground .
I will be hitting 64 before I complete my categories but never fear, I have plenty of time left to finish. Here's what I will be reading for the next while to finish off my categories, not counting all those little extras I will be adding in.
Cat and Mou ...
60. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky always writes very interesting stories and this is just another one of them.
I had a hard time getting into this one until over halfway through but found it quite interesting and wonderful.
Crime and Punishment, and Notes from Underground .
Finished Ethan Frome. Going to start Notes From the Underground today for another extra credit in the 1,001 Books category.
Enjoying Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
... ouglass
4. Heart of Darkness
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream
6. Life on the Mississippi
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Notes from the Underground
9. Othello
10. Anna Karenina
The Mill on the Floss ****½
by George Eliot
08/16/08
†Notes from the Underground ****½
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
08/17/08
Against Nature ***½
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
08/17/08
The Black Hole War ***
by Leonard Susskind
08/18/08
... Debris." I've also doubled up in "Novels by Women" and "Short Stories."
OC: Northanger Abbey, The Mill on the Floss, Notes from Underground , Against Nature EX: The Great Gatsby, Gulag Archipelago Vol. 2, The Black Hole War
"I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased”
Fyodor Dostoevsky ~ Notes From The Underground
We have had a bit of a traumatic month so I have done very little reading.
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Beloved by Toni Morrison
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
I wish that I could have gotten more in but that will have to do for this month. I ...
I would say Crime and Punishment ever so slightly edges out The Brothers Karamazov. I love both books though. For me Notes from the Underground is a distant third. I think I may have to read that again. The Devils: The Possessed is waiting patiently on my shelf of "to be read" books, I'm ...
... masterpieces, and the big ones are greater than anything written in the twentieth century anywhere, imo. My favorite is Notes from the Underground .
... reading:
Midnattsbarn by Salman Rushdie (Group Reads - Literature, cf. #50,51), page 90 out of 460.
Re-read:
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
A view of the harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
Notes from underground by Dostoevsky
Behind the scenes at the museum by Kate Atkinson
A cab at the door by V.S. Pritchett
Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here by Joseph Heller
...guess which video I watched last night!
My OH bought me the new edition of the 1,001 books you must read before you die- yey!
He got for himself Notes from the Underground , Dostoyevsky and Jim Thompson's The Killer inside me.
... but even any consciousness at all is a sickness. "
The figure of the misfit is first developed in "The Double" and "Notes from Underground ", and it seems to this reader that the protagonists of these two stories may on some imaginative level be seen as the same character. (Milton’s ...
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The Last of the Mohicans (long time ago)
Dead Souls
Wuthering Heights
Fathers and Sons
Great Expectations
Notes from the Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Possessed
Anna Karenina
Germinal (long ago)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (long ago)
Hellemyrsfol ...
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A: The Mysteries of Udolpho , Ann Radcliffe *read*
M: Moby Dick , Herman Melville
J: Notes from the Underground The Moonstone , Wilkie Collins
A: Justine , Marquis de Sade
S: Under the Greenwood T ...
Now listening to Black Dogs by Ian McEwan and still reading The WInd-Up Bird CHronicles and Notes from the Underground .
... medellia12 I'm also enjoying Cold Comfort Farm at the moment. I have been laughing out loud at times! I am also reading Notes from the Underground - which is not making me laugh!
I've started Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground on Dailylit this week.
... of Maladies
14. Gertrude Stein - Three Lives
15. Tim O' Brien - The Things They Carried
16. Fyodor Dostoevsky - "Notes From the Underground ; White Nights"
... politics. Granted, I was only 16 when I read it, so maybe it would be easier now. His short stories (The Gambler, Notes from the Underground , etc though I suppose Notes is more of a novella) are also easy ways to get started with Dostoevsky, but I feel like they don't showcase his ...
"The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful." Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
... I am very impatient! I am therefore reading what I consider easier books, lazy I know. Nevertheless, the importance of both Notes from the Underground and If on a winter's night a traveler is noted and I will not relinquish them.
On Chesil Beach was moving, beautifully written and in my ...
Dearie me, Notes from the Underground is very hard to read...
Have lost interest and I have started reading
Replacement Number 6. Suite Francaise by Irene Némirovsky
... short story collection, but I am going to dig out The Interpreter of Maladies which is somewhere in my TBR pile.
6. Notes from the underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A few right now for classes. Notes from Underground , along w/ Invisible Man.
13) Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky.
Had to read this for a class. Found it utterly dreary & depressing. Never have I disliked a character so much.
... just fit perfectly, though it's been quite a few years since I read them. A more recent success for me was trying it with Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; I swear tea enhances your perceptive abilities.
Lately I've noticed that I most enjoy the combination of books and tea when ...
... in school. Reading about 4 books simultaneously. Existentialism: Basic Writings, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Notes from the Underground & Lakota Woman. In for another busy semester.
I have my birthday just after Christmas, so it's a bumper stack...
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
The Virgin Suic ...
I haven't read enough to give a favorite, but Crime and Punishment blew me away. I found it very powerful. Notes from the Underground got my attention too.
... the tactic you suggest is probably the one I'm going to have to take, though.
In the meantime, I apparently need to read Notes from the Underground , sounds like it might be a story I can relate to a bit.
... I probably haven't read as much Dostoyevsky as you. Looking at my list I've read The brothers Karamazov, The Possessed, Notes from the Underground and The Double. I liked the first three and wasn't that keen on the last. I like his villians the best though in all his works--almost cheer ...
... by Robyn Carr / contemporary romance / 1st in a trilogy
The Butterfly House by Marcia Preston / relationship
The Inquisitor by Gayle Wilson / romantic suspense
** hopefully the touchstones will work correctly **
... affect the status of scientific discourse in general (Chernyshevsky, What is to be done?; Turgenev, Father's and Sons; Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground ; Chekhov, Stories)
What is to be said about the integration of science and the intelligentsia (Kropotkin, Bakunin)?
Oh, and I ...
... of the universe, but Coming of age in the Milky Way was the one that gave me a proper dose of humility about it all.
Notes from the underground and The Possessed, both of which I read much earlier in life, taught me a few lessons in taking ideas to logical but insane conclusions.
And ...
i'm just finishing up Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (nothing like a little light reading..ha) and then I'll be starting A Delirious Summer by Ray Blackston
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Mr Hudson's Diaries Michael Hardwick
All For the Union : the Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An Elizabethan in 1582: The Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls Elizabeth Story Donno
... set in the underworld of the young urban radicals, which would eventually become his first truly great and modern work, Notes from the Underground . He and Mikhail also went back to petitioning furiously to get permission to start a new journal. They finally succeeded, and in 1864 launched Epo ...
... it very much, but I'm finding it to be a quiet book. I like it, but it's not blowing me out of the water. I've also begun Notes From the Underground by Dostoevsky as my e-book; it's considerably less enjoyable.
ETA: now that I'm a bit further into His Majesty's Dragon, I find that I ...
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For my part, I'm about 100 pages into His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik, (very good, so far), and have just begun Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, (thus far rather rantish and slightly dull).
... Dragon by Naomi Novik - library; personal copy later purchased
95. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik - keeper
96. Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - electronic
... However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Notes from the Underground
To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobble streets silent and the ...
... by Mikhail Bulgakov
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
That should keep me busy through March.
... with Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - and will finish that by Saturday.
Also have War and Peace and Notes From The Underground ongoing from DailyLit.
... Krishnamurti
The Imitation of Christ – Thomas A. Kempis
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Book of Strangers – I.N. Dallas
The Outsider – Colin Wilson
Religion and the Rebel – Colin Wils ...
... all of what we read...
The Communist Manifesto
The Republic
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Things Fall Apart
Notes From Underground
The Book of Job
Siderius Nuncius by Galileo
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Frankenstein
... all three books.
I am now either moving on to John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids or Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground . Haven't decided yet.
I actually did a short course on existentialist fiction. The set texts were.....
Dostoevsky Notes From Underground
Franz Kafka The Trial
Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea
Albert Camus The Stranger
Albert Camus The Plague
Saul Bellow Dangling Man
Norman Mailer ...
I actually did a short course on existentialist fiction. The set texts were.....
Dostoevsky Notes From Underground
Franz Kafka The Trial
Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea
Albert Camus The Stranger
Albert Camus The Plague
Saul Bellow Dangling Man
Norman Mailer ...
... so beautifully.
I also love Kafka on the Shore. I like everything I've read from him. I couldn't really get through Underground , though, it was too depressing.
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I didn't find this an easy book to read. It was confusing and frustrating. The first part was uninteresting (IMO) but the second part was better. I ...
Books Read in 2009:
January:
1. 2666 by Roberto Bol ...
