mirrorbird(00:40:53)
yeah i know i should get an e-reader. (again)
Oldchap(00:40:42)
I read a Dostoyevsky short novel last month. It was called White Nights.
mirrorbird(00:40:38)
why don't they make bloody hardbacks any more? "War and Peace" in paperback will fall apart after 1 reading
mirrorbird(00:39:52)
proabbly bc of short story collections
mirrorbird(00:39:41)
i think i knew two of the "lesser known" names and i couldn't remember why. the others were just white noise
mirrorbird(00:39:23)
...received a lot of attention at the time and a lot of other very good russian novellists have been overlooked. probably to this day. so. no shortage of good books out there. we don't have to read Harry Potter. haha
mirrorbird(00:38:51)
OC: i tend to avoid the "prefaces" in these things but an interesting comment in this book (btw i know The Idiot) was that the "big three" (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev) ...
mirrorbird(00:37:58)
heheheh i haven't seen ol' Looper for a while. although have been voicing with some speccy nerds. especially my bro D who's getting the kidney. not sure if he will live through that or not.