Just finished Cancer ward, cheese and crackers that has got to be the best novel I've ever read. You know that scene in dead poet's society with the page with the graph on it, all about how a masterfully expressed, very serious subject will be superior? Maybe Robin williams killed himself because of how wrong he was tearing that page out, Solzhenitsyn proves is with this bad boy.
Every time I read something russian I ask myself why I bother with anything else, it is as if they lend voices to all the hundreds of souls Mozart tells the steppenwolf he has within him. Ive only ever read tolstoy and dosto but I have another solsh play and Gogol's dead souls on the shelf waiting for me.
I did borrow a few books from the library though so they will have to wait.
wild card topic for discussion: is tennis Veeky Forums as fuck?
Jonathan Myers
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James Flores
When I first got into Veeky Forums about a decade ago (shit I'm old) I started out reading my dad's collection of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. It's sort of like being introduced to steak for the first time with a $150 Wagyu Rib Eye Cheesesteak; spoils you right off the bat.
On my list for this year: Brother's Karamazov, Dead Souls
Bentley Nguyen
Brother's K is pretty good, I'm just finishing up The Double and apparently it was influenced by the style in Dead Souls along with the majority of Gogol's works. I'm planning on getting the following his week: The Little Demon-Sologub Ice trilogy-Sorokin
Both seem like fun reads but I've not heard of much discussion on either one.
Brayden Scott
Oh boy
Andrew Hill
I'm currently reading White Guard by Bulgakov and Quiet Flows the Don by Sholokhov >Every time I read something russian I ask myself why I bother with anything else Is very relatable.
Jacob Anderson
I'm writing a book based in Russia, any good books writing about the imperial era?
Brandon Cox
you seem really gay
Oliver Nguyen
fucking faggot >writes a book based in Russia >has to ask for reading recommendations on said subject, becuase he doesn't know too much about it. REEEEEEEEEE
why you located it in Russia?
Jayden Cruz
>tfw learning Russian for the books
Good enough now to trawl through Harry potter at a reasonable rate. After that it'sonto the first witcher book. Another year and maybe I can manage something act good.
Juan Garcia
hmmmmmm...
Alexander Scott
>shirt out of his pants
what a fucking degenerate
Evan Bennett
>withcer book
You are aware that this book was written in polish not russian and russian translations are actually horrible?
Charles Williams
topkek
Nathaniel Carter
I am yes. I just assumed a Russian translation would be similar as the languages are similar. Truthfully I don't care for the quality, it's a pulpy fantasy novel. As long as it fits my requirement of being harder than Harry potter while not as hard as Pushkin or Chekhov I'm fine with it.
Gavin Turner
Fuck. It seems that everybody has read Cancer Ward already, except me.
Wyatt Barnes
which translation did you have?
John Stewart
Of course tennis is Veeky Forums, just look at DFW
Hudson Ramirez
penguin books Nicholas Bethell, David Burg
Charles Lopez
thanks user, i need a copy for next semester and I think I'll try to get one of these translations. I've had good luck with Penguin Classics so I'm sure it will be a fine translations.
Liam White
Or Nabokov
Kevin Green
what would give you impression that I enjoy the company of men in a sexual context, based on what Ive said
Anthony Reed
maybe 1/100 people you see in public would have an opinion which would amount to "what is that fag reading"
Jose Davis
just read tolstoy
he is very easy writing
Hudson Sullivan
He's not in the gulag anymore, he can cut that dirty beard now, sheesh.
Colton Gomez
*sensible chuckle*
I get it, youre purposefully giving us a terribly constructed sentence to mark the masterfully composed russian literature?
