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mcctrishAbsolute bullshit! Ivan will not be invited to the Tortured Poets Society after that fail! Also Fyodor needs to keep his chapters shorter, that is too much blah11mo
BookwormjillkTotally skimmed it too. When I saw it was a 28 minute read I almost fell out of my chair.11mo
BookwormjillkThe only good parts were when A interrupted to tell him his poem didn‘t make sense11mo
LibrarybelleI feel like I need a quick education on what was happening in Russia at this time. There is so much deep thought on some really heavy issues - I know it‘s a commentary on contemporary happenings, but me as a 21st century reader, and a non-Russian reader, is a little in the dark. I can only imagine how Crime and Punishment compares!11mo
daena“Alyosha, who had listened to him all this time without saying anything, though towards the end, in a state of extreme agitation“. All I could think was same bro, same. #readtheroomivan(edited) 11mo
dabbeMe during this chapter: 😳 ... 😳 ... trying to read ... 😤 ... 😩 ... 😰 ... 🥱 ... 💤 ... wake up ... skim the mother-f---er ... 😎. In tomorrow's chapter, Ivan says this: “For so many years I was silent with the whole world and did not deign to speak, and suddenly I spewed out so much gibberish!“
Thanks, Ivan. Could you have said that BEFORE you started speaking in the last chapter? As@TheBookHippie would say, #oytothevey!11mo
CuilinSo glad it wasn‘t written in verse, prose was bad enough!!!!! 😩11mo
TheAromaofBooksI used to think I was bad at writing poetry... then I met Ivan 😂11mo
RuthiellaGuys, according to my sources, this is the CRUX of the novel, the jewel in the crown, it‘s raison d‘etre…😂11mo
currentlyreadinginCOThis is the first chapter I've seen in my used edition that was heavily marked up from the previous owner! I wondered if they were reading this for school and if this may have been one of the most important chapters, and then I thought about doing some research, but then I got pulled into my actual job and forgot ...@Ruthiella11mo
BarkingMadRead@Ruthiella I saw that! I must be broken 🤣 it made me want to commit crimes against myself 🤣11mo
KAOI had been looking forward to this chapter, because I remember (from somewhere) that this was the most famous segment. So I really gave it my full attention—but I found it disappointing. Deep, but honestly not up to the hype, in my opinion. Can it be that I am suffering from a short attention span?? Maybe.11mo
Thanks, Ivan. Could you have said that BEFORE you started speaking in the last chapter? As @TheBookHippie would say, #oytothevey! 11mo