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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 blah1y
BookwormjillkTotally skimmed it too. When I saw it was a 28 minute read I almost fell out of my chair.1y
BookwormjillkThe only good parts were when A interrupted to tell him his poem didn‘t make sense1y
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!1y
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) 1y
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!1y
CuilinSo glad it wasn‘t written in verse, prose was bad enough!!!!! 😩1y
TheAromaofBooksI used to think I was bad at writing poetry... then I met Ivan 😂1y
RuthiellaGuys, according to my sources, this is the CRUX of the novel, the jewel in the crown, it‘s raison d‘etre…😂1y
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 ...@Ruthiella1y
BarkingMadRead@Ruthiella I saw that! I must be broken 🤣 it made me want to commit crimes against myself 🤣1y
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.1y
Thanks, Ivan. Could you have said that BEFORE you started speaking in the last chapter? As @TheBookHippie would say, #oytothevey! 1y