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Camus' writing is interesting, but it's also really fucking dry

balwin's writing is incredible. every other sentence is a gut-punch

Luzhin is so perfectly hateable. His self-absorption and egotism is so immediately apparent in his dialogue despite initally seeming "normal", and it's disgusting to see the way it extends to his perspective on women and his anti-social and immoral behaviour. It's a testament to the writing that he's more offensive than Svigrigailov, who's a much worse person.

Svidrigailov is a great addition to the story at this point, as is his purpose as an extreme version of what Raskolnikov's morality could lead him to become. The scene where Raskolnikov's paper is revealed is really great too, but the last scene with Petrovich that was just him monologuing got boring until Nikolai is brought in.

While I do think that the POV of Raskolnikov's mental anguish immediately after his murders is interesting, so far the story is better when his thoughts are affected by interacting with the other characters.

Raskolnikov doesn't deserve a friend as good as Razumikhin. Also everytime Razumikhin says "brother" I read it with the voice of Mimir from God of War 4

Every time there's a confusing, verbose, or long-winded part I just think about how it might not be a problem in a different translation, and then get mildly iritated because i guess i'll never know

I was a bit disinterested in many of the chapters so far, but the chapter when the murder happens (and the one before it) is riveting.

i hope this book isn't just people monologuing for pages on end. also i think my copy might have gotten mouldy ffs i need a dehumidifer

there's a good reason why i'm not a writer. the story did not need to progress any differently, it's really good as is

it's good so far, but the fl keeps mentioning to her past "history" w/ the ml, and I keep thinking that maybe the book should've started further back in the plot to show and not tell. and that is probably going to happen in like two chapters now that i've written this

i don't normally think much about prose when i'm reading, but i'm liking the prose in this so far

i get that the gods being responsible for most of this book and the Iliad is like the point, but removing the agency of all these great 'heroes' makes the stories a bit less interesting

the intro/translator's note being included in the page count is convenient

Hard to follow at times, but good so far

I need to finish this soon. I've bought like 9 books in the last month, and I've still got to read The Odyssey and Crime & Punishment before those

When Bourdain mentions Lyndon B. Johnson as "LBJ" my first thought was why a book from 2001 was talking about Lebron

Not been reading lately, but I've still been watching the TV show for this a bit, and Bourdain's writing reads the same way that he speaks. I can hear the voice in my head

I personally have never really enjoyed books with multiple perspectives, and it's not just being too absent-minded. Everytime the story starts picking up momenteum for one of the three different multiversal perspectives of the protagonist, the chapter ends and you come screeching to a halt to deal with one of the other perspectives. It's both jarring and annoying, worse so that the original one is most interesting.

saw some spoilers the other day and figured i should just get it over with