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Worm
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« Reply #15 on: April 07, 2004, 01:49:55 AM »
It's difficult to say what the book is about.  On the surface, the story is of two men that have a special relationship with each other.  One is a man around his forties (i believe, maybe older) living in some city in Russia, and is involved in some lawsuit.  Then he meets a strange person now and again on the street .. that looks at him sometimes.  He wonders who he is.

That's the beginning of the book.
I can't say more ....... read it.

The book has great content.


I consider this book to be undoubtedly a masterpiece of Dostojewski.  Must-read.
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« Reply #16 on: April 07, 2004, 07:41:05 AM »
Worm, did you ever finish White Nights yet?
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« Reply #17 on: April 08, 2004, 11:41:26 AM »
Hey, check up on your private messages.  I sent you one a few days later, saying that i went to the library and that they didn't have the book.
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« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2004, 08:53:19 AM »
I hate understocked libraries. I'd love to read White Nights, too.
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« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2004, 12:57:26 PM »
I'd love to read it too ..
i hope to be able to say proudly some day that "I have read everything Dostojewski ever wrote".  That would be so cool.  I think that i'll be 'The Man' then.


I like my library .. esp. the librarians that work there.  They're all annoying and kind of shy-ish people.  Most of them seem so restricted.  
All typical book-people .. not like me, though, i'm more of a "dynamic" reader.  I'm not a li'lly wussy with always a pair of books under his arms.
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« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2004, 05:05:53 PM »
Quote from: Worm on April 22, 2004, 12:57:26 PM
I'd love to read it too ..
i hope to be able to say proudly some day that "I have read everything Dostojewski ever wrote".  That would be so cool.  I think that i'll be 'The Man' then.

Worthy goal.  
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« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2004, 01:22:06 PM »
I take it back. My library is a godsend. I checked out a book that had Dream of a Ridiculous Man AND White Nights. Only, which to read first? What a delicious quandary to be in! Any suggestions?
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« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2004, 09:53:26 PM »
Read Ridiculous Man first, then White Nights.  Then...read them again.  Grin  Excellent short stories!
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« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2004, 08:27:37 AM »
Quote from: Mitya on April 25, 2004, 01:22:06 PM
I take it back. My library is a godsend. I checked out a book that had Dream of a Ridiculous Man AND White Nights. Only, which to read first? What a delicious quandary to be in! Any suggestions?


Mine's a "satan"sent library.
So there you are, reading "White Nights" ... while i'm sitting here frustrated at not having it.
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The good ones of Dosto are here though ...... "WN" won't make the difference.
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« Reply #24 on: April 26, 2004, 12:28:35 PM »
Actually, Worm, if it makes you feel better, I'm not reading White Nights. Yet. I just today finished Dream of A Ridiculous Man.
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« Reply #25 on: April 29, 2004, 03:50:11 PM »
Dostoevsky never disappoints me. White Nights was very good. Worm, you need to beg, borrow, or steal the book.
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« Reply #26 on: April 30, 2004, 04:05:52 AM »
Of the very few things that i would beg for .. a book of Dostojewski would be one of them.


I'll check other libraries ... it must be somewhere ...


'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man' i've read about a year ago already, by the way.  Nice piece.
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« Reply #27 on: May 01, 2004, 10:15:38 AM »
I recently finished Poor Folk/Poor People. Does anyone have any thoughts on this book before I move on to The Double?
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« Reply #28 on: May 04, 2004, 04:43:27 AM »
I haven't read Poor Folk, unfortunately. The Double is a fabulous book, though.
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« Reply #29 on: May 09, 2004, 02:40:45 PM »
Okay, well, I will just get on with it then! Smiley
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