false <![CDATA[Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166854578m/17876.jpg 17876 6 This collection showcases Dostoyevsky's evolving outlook on man's fate. The compelling works presented here were written at distinct periods in the author's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. <br><br> <i>Includes: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead.</i> 19376 1864 Notes from Underground: with White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead total:6265|5:2383|4:2283|3:1238|2:275|1:86| 6265 25397 8500 347 3 4 false false Tue Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 17 09:00:36 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 29 19:11:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 5 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 10:34:52 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 21:45:09 -0800 2009 2. Amused by Underground Man.
3. Sick of Underground Man.
4. Want to fly to Moscow, travel back in time, and punch Underground Man right in the face.
5. Pity for Underground Man.
6. Horrified by Underground Man.
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“The sauce here consisted of contradiction and suffering, of tormenting inner analysis, and all of these torments and tormenticules…”

All of Dostoevsky’s books are uncomfortable. Entering the thoughts of on...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Sun Nov 18 23:53:08 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 11:15:12 -0800 2007 I am a sick man. . . .I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

So it begins as many people know. Some might say this is a serious book, or that the main character is seriously screwed up. Some may say this book is a sad book. Some might say this is the first ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jan 22 11:43:45 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 11:54:49 -0800 2008
I especially enj...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 11:50:27 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 11:55:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 06:35:20 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 15:03:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Dec 22 13:54:34 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 10:17:20 -0800 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Aug 28 08:43:38 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 08:43:38 -0700 2009
"How much better it is to understand it all, to recognise it all, all the impossibilities and the stone wall; not to be reconciled to one of those impossibilities and stone walls i...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 22:13:39 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 22:26:21 -0700 2009 3
And yet,...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 07:59:49 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 08:04:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 14 10:11:26 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 11:07:54 -0700 2009 Dostoevsky, using the unnamed protagonist, paints humans as inherently irrational and ungreatful beings. He implies through the character that even if science were able to grant us some sort of utopia, we'd dest...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 10:59:32 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 06:39:00 -0800 2009 In any case, this is a v...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 20:49:41 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 20:50:24 -0800 2009
I purchased this book because it was a Dostoevsky I hadn’t read and because it is on the 1001 books to read before you die list. Zimmerman does a wonde...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Mon Aug 20 11:01:59 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 22:43:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Fri Feb 29 08:18:26 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 08:20:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 22:42:02 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 08:42:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 09:41:37 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 17:54:15 -0800 2008
The first part is the journal to the underground man - it completely blew me away... At times I would laugh at out loud at the madness of his logic, while other times I would be dumbfounded by his incredible line of thinking and view on the world/life. ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=17876