/lit/ - Literature

>alienate your spitefulness from yourself
>enjoy the tea with sugar and stop the pretentiousness and the desire to be intellectually superior
>marry liza and creampie her with children
>move to somewhere better outside the city
>dismiss apollo
>ignore zverkov and make new friends
>have a happy family and rise your children to not be your former self
>realize that you wasted your chance /s years ago and that those chances will never ever come back even if you run behind them like a maniac
>think about them and realize that the problem is fundamental in you
>realize you and yourself will never be happy
>commit suicide

Help please, I just signed up for an evening literary studies course on Dostoevsky just because I need a hobby, but I have no idea what you even do in a course like this. What is expected of me except reading? Should I take notes? any tips?
All my college experience is just from engineering and math courses

Atheism will abolish all grounds of authority, ushering in the triumph of unchecked quests for personal happiness and for (Western) theoretical schemes for social and political justice that will reduce the world to a chaos of competing egos and theories.

What authors have the most fascinating life stories?
Surely Dostoevsky is up there.
Side note: is there a book anywhere that is just a collection of biographies of famous authors?