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the characters are very unhinged but honorable at the same time I love it

Reading this feels like somebody spiked my drink without me knowing and I'm realizing too late that I'm high

Tim O'Brien is so insanely good at describing memories as they're experienced

Joseph Campbell was such a neat dude

I think it might be interesting if they fleshed out the characters better, but since it's an epic narrative spanning space and time, I might just be looking for a different genre

The show covered half of this book in two episodes and took out the details that make it believable Horace is rolling in his grave

Mind-boggling good, makes you really think hard about the emptiness of life. Dichotomies, lightness and weight, body and soul... But if it's meaningless, isn't that precisely what makes it meaningful...? An inconsequential spark, an ephemeral dewdrop at dawn...

This is so much better than the Netflix show

had me gasping like a little Victorian lady in the middle of the library

Horace instructs his reader not to set the audience's expectations too high by attempting to imitate great works. To drive this point home, he says "The mountains will fall into labour, and there will be born — an absurd little mouse" ... truly a gem.

taking two literature classes at once is driving me insane

Mr. Darcy makes me swoon

This book is so fire: “I loved the hands of a human as if they were the hands of God, and I expected love from them, which was not human. I knew from the start that I was knocking on the door of the impossible, that it would never be opened, that the border was solid even though it might have appeared to be transparent, that the miracle would not occur.” (p. 38)

the novel grew on me and hit my feelings hard out of nowhere

biting my fist (pain)

Dostoevsky writes really banging insanity and nightmare scenes

this book is gorgeous

I'm a Razumikhin... kinnie... 👉😎👉

Dostoevsky is goated