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Anonymous Mon Sep 21 00:33:45 2015 No.7142099 [Reply] [Original]

Why why are you avoiding reading this book anon?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 00:35:30 2015 No.7142106 It's big and Russian names are annoying, and it doesn't have the edgy appeal that Dostoyevsky does.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 00:37:40 2015 No.7142113 Because I've already read the superior Maude translation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 00:39:50 2015 No.7142119 with the greeks at the moment, maybe in some years I'll read tolstoi

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 00:40:12 2015 No.7142121 >>7142099 give me a reason to read it. Honestly I just have a ton of stuff on my backlog that I would rather read but ill get to it

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 00:40:40 2015 No.7142124 I'm a recovering pleb, still on homer

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 00:44:30 2015 No.7142144 File: 902 KB, 1273x713, sa.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] too heavy

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 00:44:31 2015 No.7142145 >>7142099 I read it for a summer class. It was underwhelming. But then again I don't like history... if you like history, you might like this book since there's a lot about Napoleon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 00:44:36 2015 No.7142146 >>7142121 >give me a reason to read it It's a good book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 00:45:50 2015 No.7142152 File: 52 KB, 630x630, 12432546567679.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7142144 I got the Everyman edition, and it was split into 3 books. Thank goodness for that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 02:59:11 2015 No.7142425 It's big and scary.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:14:32 2015 No.7142454 Because the only Russian literature I'm really interested in is absurdist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 03:33:28 2015 No.7142491 >>7142454 Do you like Gogol?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 04:28:06 2015 No.7142610 >>7142454 Platonov?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 04:32:29 2015 No.7142618 >>7142454 KHARMS H E A M R E MEME S

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 04:44:38 2015 No.7142633 >>7142099 In Russia we have this book as a part of russian literature subject in the school. And it is to be read. Mandatory. I hate this book so much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 21 05:05:18 2015 No.7142659 >>7142633 If I was forced to read it I would probably hate it too tbh