Now that I have a working (knock on wood) computer, and have time to do some writing, I’ll be getting to work on my two blogs (this one and Media Vulture), as well as some long-neglected websites, glassangel and Paranoid Gazette.
I’ll be starting things off by directing you to me Goodreads page, beginning with a review of
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Read the book that influenced Sigmund Freud and Nietzsche (“Dostoyevski is the ONLY psychologist from whom I have anything to learn”); was found on Tolstoy’s nightstand– well worn– when HE died. And, in a book called the “Book of Lists”, in the categories “Greatest Books” and “Greatest Writers”, Dostoyevski was picked FIRST in both lists– by two different authors!
And, unlike so many “great” authors, Dostoyevski can be HILARIOUS at times.
I won’t bore the reader with an explication of the plot, but I might advise him/her to warm up to the book by reading “Notes from Underground,” which explicates the themes that are explored in “Brothers.” (btw… I’ve read this book in its entirety three times (first time in 1978), and read sections of it periodically; and I still find sections that strike me a completely new each time.
Happy New Year Robert. 🙂