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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.

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.

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...

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.