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Lush · 03-03-2002, 08:54 PM

The Metamorphosis, actually. I loathe Kafka. He owes a lot to Dostoevsky, but dear old Feydor I can actually enjoy. For me, Kafka reads like cough medicine tastes.
War and Peace I put on my reading list for my independent study in Russian literature. I'm going from a 1,000 page book (LotR) to a 1,300 page book. Ah me. It is actually a good thing, because my mother has been yelling at me to read Tolstoy for about three years now. By her standards, every self-respecting Russian must read War and Peace by the time they're like, five. Like I said, smart people can be quite irksome. More so when you're talking Tolkien! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

03-03-2002, 08:54 PM	#8
Lush Fair and Cold Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: the big onion Posts: 1,770	The Metamorphosis, actually. I loathe Kafka. He owes a lot to Dostoevsky, but dear old Feydor I can actually enjoy. For me, Kafka reads like cough medicine tastes. War and Peace I put on my reading list for my independent study in Russian literature. I'm going from a 1,000 page book (LotR) to a 1,300 page book. Ah me. It is actually a good thing, because my mother has been yelling at me to read Tolstoy for about three years now. By her standards, every self-respecting Russian must read War and Peace by the time they're like, five. Like I said, smart people can be quite irksome. More so when you're talking Tolkien! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ ~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~