The Possessed
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Sending this off to tabby-cat-owner. I hope you like it!
Received this book in the mail from Wiley90 of Sheboygan, Wisconsin who very kindly agreed to trade books with me. Thanks for trading, Wiley90.
I tried for a few months to read this book because it was my oldest TBR book. Given that Dostoyevsky is supposed to be such a great writer, I was willing to make an attempt to read some 'great Russian literature'. After reading 236 pages of a 701 page book, I am gladly and with great relief closing this book to open it no more. Needless to say, I am not impressed.
I feel like the little boy standing in the crowd wondering why everyone is admiring the emperor's new clothes when the emperor is actually wearing nothing. I am just not interested in the philosophical indulgences of an individual about the state of a society as it existed almost 150 years ago when I can view that messed-up 'society' or extremely large nation-state as it exists today and look back on all that has happened in the last 150 years in this nation-state.
Furthermore, I find it ridiculous that people thought back then and still think now that atheism is a sign of great intelligence.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone and I will release this book in a way that expresses my disgust without actually sending it to the landfill.
I feel like the little boy standing in the crowd wondering why everyone is admiring the emperor's new clothes when the emperor is actually wearing nothing. I am just not interested in the philosophical indulgences of an individual about the state of a society as it existed almost 150 years ago when I can view that messed-up 'society' or extremely large nation-state as it exists today and look back on all that has happened in the last 150 years in this nation-state.
Furthermore, I find it ridiculous that people thought back then and still think now that atheism is a sign of great intelligence.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone and I will release this book in a way that expresses my disgust without actually sending it to the landfill.
Journal Entry 5 by tabby-cat-owner at Goodwill - 7th Street And Thunderbird Road in Phoenix, Arizona USA on Thursday, December 22, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (12/22/2016 UTC) at Goodwill - 7th Street And Thunderbird Road in Phoenix, Arizona USA
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I can't wait to throw this book on my pile of discards in the garage that is intended to be donated to the Goodwill.