old europe wrote:Sturgis wrote:fishin wrote:I :heart: Dostoevsky.
Doesn't everyone?
No.
patiodog wrote:Sturgis wrote:fishin wrote:I :heart: Dostoevsky.
Doesn't everyone?
I gave Fyodor a shot. Got about halfway through Crime & Punishment (of course) before giving up on it.
Geeze, you guys gots no perspective. Ol' Freddy wrote
Notes from Underground--the Tsar was not amused. So they sent him off with some of his radical buddies for a little re-education in Siberia. When he got back, he wrote
Crime and Punishment to prove that he had been rehabilitated.
When you keep this in mind, and don't take anything he wrote after
Crime and Punishment seriously, the guy is an absolute hoot. Take for example,
The Brothers Karamozov (please!)--that was absolutely hilarious, with goofy old man, the responsible son, the wastrel son and the monkish son. I laughed all through that book. A friend of mine in university was reading it for an assignment, and was bored and depressed. So he handed it to me to read, to explain to him. I said i'd read it many years before, but would be happy to read it again. One night he came over to the apartment to ask about my progress, and heard me laughing aloud before he came in. He asked me what i was laughing at, and i told him i'd just been reading
The Brothers Karamazov. He gave me a look as though there were something amiss, changed the subject, and left soon after.
Try
The Friend of the Family, it's short, and it is absolutely hilarious. Just because Russians have a different sense of humor than what we are accustomed to doesn't mean that they have no sense of humor at all.
The Eternal Husband is pretty amusing, too.
Oh, man... why this thread?? 
