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is 20% done
Picking up this book is beginning to appear to be a mistake.
It's proving to be surprisingly difficult to read, not because of the complexity of language, but because it's pretty high-context. It's essentially a piece of social and political commentary on the Russia of mid-1800s. You need to be familiar with that stuff and with Dostoevsky in general for this book to be an easy read.
I might drop this book midway.
— May 01, 2023 08:00AM
It's proving to be surprisingly difficult to read, not because of the complexity of language, but because it's pretty high-context. It's essentially a piece of social and political commentary on the Russia of mid-1800s. You need to be familiar with that stuff and with Dostoevsky in general for this book to be an easy read.
I might drop this book midway.
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I'll start my Dostoevsky with some of his stylistically conventional works. Perhaps one of his earlier novels. This book, I'll probably finish a quarter just to see if things get easier to understand or not.