/lit/ - Literature

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>"Is there a god, Dostoyevsky?"
>lolidunno, sure beats me

>there are people browsing /lit/ RIGHT NOW that haven't read Brothers Karamazov

I can't keep reading all these damn novels from the /lit/ top hundred. I've only been through a few, but every time I read one, it takes too much of a toll on me.

I read these books from a high state of consciousness, looking for meaning and taking them slow.

Every one of them has basically affected me in a way that make me want to change my life. Or change what I'm doing. I think that is the sign of a good book.
The problem is, despite what I read and how what I read make me want to change my life, or wake up and do something different the next morning, I still have to wake up and go to class. And then the same thing the next day. And the next day. I feel like my mind and soul want to break free, but they have no control over my body.

The latest I read was Siddhartha, and now I fell like I'm wasting my life to monotony and bullshit and routine. And now I just want to buy a backpack and go backpack in Latin America or Asia.

But I still have to wake up tomorrow and go to class.

The Brothers Karamazov, The Myth of Sisyphus, and The Sun Also Rises also fucked me up pretty hard.

It hurts to read these and yet wake up and do the same thing the next day. It is as if the mind is changing, but the body is not able to back it up with the action.

I can't keep doing this. It takes too much of a toll on me. I literally can't afford to read these books because they are a serious threat to my daily life.


TLDR; The novels I have been reading have become a serious threat to who I am and what I am doing in my life. I feel like I can not continue reading them.

The Brothers Karamazov. My first time reading it and I can't get enough.

>tfw Alyosha will never be your bro

I enjoyed Crime & Punishment immensely and liked The Idiot very much too. Not sure what I am going to read afterwards but I think I want to get into that whole Russian 'superfluous man' thing. Any tips on what to start with that?