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The world building is a hodgepodge of late Qing and republic era China, I can’t complain, but I can see where people get the idea that Kuang is too heavy handed in her analogies.

I know she’s French but my head cannon for Emerence is Isabelle Huppert

Emerence hates everything except for dogs and cats; which I can respect.

“I think it’s over…”

Russian military doctrine is definitely a war of attrition, if you can call getting your ass kicked for majority of the conflict a “war of attrition”

Library loans coming to an end got to crank this out somehow.

Why did little boys draw swastikas into things, especially one that’s country is actively being invaded by nazis?

How has the battle not even started yet?

“Like what Hegel said…” 😒 universal reasoning from old people doesn’t mean much when your getting shot at

After reading Dostoyevsky, 40, price of a taxi fair, rubles sounds like a fortune.

Every 40 pages or so, the editors make sure to interject about the greatness of the Soviet people. Maybe that’s why it’s so damn long, not including the sequel.

Jane must be charismatic as hell considering she’s not “handsome” and is able to become so beloved by all these rich people.

How have I been duped by a short, old, ugly man that was written nearly 2 centuries ago? The red flags were so obvious.

For most of the books I’ve read like this I didn’t really understand the fawning over certain men, but I understand for Mr. Rochester.

I always joke I don’t like French people but they keep showing up in the media I consume.

Wow, the Harry Potter lady took quite the liberty of taking the origin story, or it’s a bigger trope than I first recognize.

If all they ever perform is Shakespeare, then why do they need to study their lines for Romeo and Juliet for so long? It feels like they should have had this down by now.

I think I enjoy reading the character discuss Shakespeare more than Greek, but A Secret History feels lite is better written/ researched.

Ewww… get away from your cousin

I hate that the guy from euphoria is playing Heathcliff because I keep switching from imagining the euphoria guy or a fair skinned Romani guy.

It makes me uncomfortable how many times the word ejaculate is used.

All their infighting has left the only people to intact any really action to be radical without any real ends.

Krillov would be unable to “become god” because he would be committing suicide for other matters; if he were to kill himself by reason of “no other reason than it being his own choice” , by the fact that he is boasting being able to do so to others, he is doing it for others peoples thoughts of him.

Is this a meeting or not? I will raise my right hand in agreement.

Dostoyevsky is able to place even a modern reader in the mindset of multiple different characters with different political ideologies 19th century Russia. While I do love this book, I think that quite a lot is lost in translation, especially the humor that is apparent, but is just too old and too Russian for me to catch everything.

I don’t think I would ever vote for a man who reminded me of my uncle

I love Dostoevsky, but why does a apparently clumsy & nervous Military captain start debating nihilism after he tripped over himself and apologized like a baby to Vavara Pertovna

Stepan Trodimovich saying French phrases for no reason pisses me off so much.

Stop, stop adding people; I’m getting lost.