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by **Arion** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:59 pm

Stephen Day wrote:Tolstoy.

Of the two War and Peace is by far the best work either ever did and that right there decides the question for me.

Tolstoy has War and Peace

Dostoyevsky has Crime and Punishment

How am I supposed to make a choice?

by **Stephen Day** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:25 pm

Arion wrote:
Tolstoy has War and Peace

Dostoyevsky has Crime and Punishment

How am I supposed to make a choice?

I'm not a fan of Crime and Punishment, but I love War and Peace.

by **Arion** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:35 pm

Stephen Day wrote:
I'm not a fan of Crime and Punishment, but I love War and Peace.

What's your favorite Dostoyevski's book?

by **Stephen Day** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:09 pm

Sorry Arion, I just noticed your post now.

Arion wrote:
What's your favorite Dostoyevski's book?

I really liked The Idiot.

by **Log-Man** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:46 pm

Which one wrote Lolita? :groucho:

Look, I can't take you seriously with that avatar. You expect a serious answer? I did vote, though.

by **David Bird** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:16 pm

I haven't read any novels by Dostoevsky, and I've enjoyed short stories by both, but Anna Karenina is the most boring novel I've ever worked my way through, so I voted Dostoevsky.

Keb wrote:Never read a Russian writer I liked. I also read Notes from Underground and hated it so much I threw the book under my bed and it stayed there for a year.

Same with Joseph Conrad. Guy needs to put the pen down and go make some balloon animals. Fuckin clown.

Don't get me started on Lolita...

Conrad wasn't Russian.

by **David Bird** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:18 pm

Log-Man wrote:Which one wrote Lolita?

Look, I can't take you seriously with that avatar. You expect a serious answer? I did vote, though.

Vladimir Nabokov.

by **Nacmir** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:44 pm

I can't stand long-as-hell novels, I just can't. Closer I got into russians was Gorki's My universities.

by **Eli Katz** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:49 pm

Keb wrote:Never read a Russian writer I liked. I also read Notes from Underground and hated it so much I threw the book under my bed and it stayed there for a year.

Same with Joseph Conrad. Guy needs to put the pen down and go make some balloon animals. Fuckin clown.

Don't get me started on Lolita...

I really like Conrad. He's one of my all-time favorite authors.

Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Victory, The Shadow Line, An Outpost of Progress, The Secret Sharer, Under Western Eyes ... I enjoyed them all.

Admittedly I found The Secret Agent dull, almost unreadable.