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It’s sort of amazing how in just a few pages I went from totally on board to “nope.”

I don’t understand who I’m supposed to be falling in love with! Shipping the priest.

<spoiler> HOW is it simultaneously the end of the world and we are like, calling 70 year olds out of retirement and booking private jets but somehow have to still sit through a routine traffic stop with the local law enforcement????? </spoiler>

This time, sensitive-single-poetry-loving-outdoorsman is a park ranger in Yellowstone.

Luzhin: Thief !
Sonya: oh no!
Katerina Ivanovna: cough cough
Sonya: oh no!
Raskolnikov: yesssss
Sonya: oh no !

Raskolnikov: no
Porfiry: ok sure sure
Raskolnikov: no
Porfiry: ok
Raskolnikov: yes murder haha
Porfiry: what
Razumihin: what
Raskolnikov: death
Dunya: what
Pulcheria: what
Sonya: what
Rasmolnikov: haha
Porfiry: hm

Sad and beautiful and Dickensian

Did I seriously read this scene as a child or was I so naiive I just didn’t comprehend?

Gorgeous so far.

Goals

Gross

Audio

This book is like Lost. Where do the babies come from? What is the fog monster? Who left the writing on the wall? I love it.

“I distilled a diverse group of individuals down to a few of their beliefs. Those beliefs were based on fear, and so all my arguments began and ended with the same thought: You’re all cowards. …. Reasoned, caring conversations that considered the complexity of other perspectives didn’t get views. Rants did. Outrage did. Simplicity did. So, simple outraged rants is what I gave people.”