jean

Super interesting book I'll probably never stop thinking about. It was a little hard to get into but definitely worth it. The words of the Underground Man are full of meaning and hilarious at some points as well. Still don't know enough of philosophy to comment on the actual content though...but it was a good read(tm).

just okay i thought, after finishing it. but i'll credit it for helping me along while i cleaned.

i will say that i thought the partial frame tale device(recounting to a detective) was handled poorly; just put the detective's dialogue into the text, rather than having the narrator repeat it all back before answering in a completely insane, unnatural way.

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this was alright, i enjoyed it mostly (i did binge it) but it definitely suffers the problem of having characters that can't do anything but turn every normal conversation into a fight. would probably have been less grating if i'd read it rather than listened to the audiobook.

this was ok. made far more interesting to me with the Armenian element, i liked that a lot—the proverbs especially. i really only became aware of the genocide after i happened to see a protest a museum, so that part of the book felt more powerful.