Supposed to be reading this really dry Victorian novel for literature class called The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Reading this instead, it's much better:

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Reading this

^^^ I read that a little while ago. Very good! I always like books were isolation/alienation is a major theme.

Ana Karenina - too lazy to read it in highschool, making up for a wasted education. Much better and more convincing than Dostoevsky with regards to love and romance and the subtleties of human emotion.

Speaking of Dostoevsky:

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This is my first time actually reading it despite having it for about two years. I like it so far, and am currently at that "At The Khokhlakovs" chapter. I have the Andrew MacAndrew translation (couldn't find a picture of that on Google), and it seems pretty nice. I've compared his, the Constance Garnett, and the Pevear/Volokhonsky one and the MacAndrew one seems more readable. I like it so far, but I don't think it's going to be as amazing as people say it is.

Of the 4 books I've read by him, I'd say that one is the least memorable. The idiot is his best work methinks.

^For me, it's between the The Idiot and Crime and Punishment.

Yeah, it's a close call, but I just thought The idiot had a better, more consistant rythm. And bonus points for keeping me interested even without any blood and gore (or anything else substantial happening) throughout its lenghty run...

The only other book by him I've read is Notes From Underground, so I'm not really in the position to judge.

Finished Crime & Punishment, just starting The Idiot now...C&P gave me the chills. Raskolnikov and his Napoleonic theories are just so :laughing: