Posted by floatingbridge on January 18, 2010, at 17:07:46
In reply to Re: read any good books lately?, posted by Sigismund on December 14, 2009, at 2:05:09
> As mentioned months ago in a previous post, I was reading "The Possessed" (Dostoyevsky) along with a history of the USSR. Slow to start, but in the set pieces, just wonderfully funny. Then I lost it. And then my wife found it under the bed when she was making it (which, I hasten to say, I do not bother to do). I just have to work out whether to start at the beginning again or not.
Sigi,
The Possessed was my first Dostoyevsky. So many names and carriage rides back and forth! I adore, ADORE Crime and Punishment. Never finished the Brothers Karamatov.
Have you read TA Hoffman's story "The Sandman"? Came across it the other day as I was cleaning up and thought of you.
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