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Old 04.08.2025, 09:23 PM   #6004
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Originally Posted by Severian
I forgot to pop in here and say that I finished this a month or so ago.

Fucking tremendous novel. Holy hell. Why did it take me this long to read it?
because it took a long time to write and it was think with ideas, characterizations, and a "philosophy of life" as they say, and it wasn't written in 4 days on twitter, and it wasn't a stretched out short story either. it was an entire world. my favorite chapter is when levin is working with the mujiks. felt like i was right there!

took me like 2 months to read it at the rate of a chapter or two a day. like one would watch a tv series these days, only requiring more effort, and therefore more satisfying

i also love the idea of "living well but thinking incorrectly" or however it was put in the translation, i forget really. one of the greatest books ever written
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