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this story was exquisitely written by kafka!!

watching gregor's sister cast him aside moments after he revealed how deeply he loved her felt like a punch to the chest...

it reminded me that the thing i fear most about loving someone is not loss itself, but becoming someone they can no longer recognize as worthy of their love.

my first dostoyevsky book!!

most of the book is the protagonist shown talking to himself which feels so humane to me as i myself soend majority of my time in my head with my thoughts...

tho i was disappointed how it ended, i really liked the story and the way it was written.

the first time i read this was years back when i was in highschool. it was my favorite book back then.

the only reason i felt really close to this book was because ever since i was little i have observed the way woman are treated and i have always felt an immense amount of despair because of it.

i was in tears at the end...

at first i really liked where nietzsche was going with his idea of good and evil but i couldn't bring myself to finish the last two chapters... merely because of what he wrote about women. just like any other male philosophers, he believes he know everything about a woman.