Status Updates From A Gentle Creature and Other...

A Gentle Creature - Done.
The pawnbroker is basically an underground man with social power, however instead of destroying his own life, he decided to drag a gentle, innocent person and destroyed her.
Whatever beef Dostoevsky has with pawnbrokers, I fully support him.

Starting A Gentle Creature first instead of White Nights. Dostoevsky, what did the pawnbrokers do to you lol???

"A Gentle Creature" - I spent almost every moment of this thrill ride wondering "WTF is this narrator doing!?". Thrilling, depressing, and a disturbing look into ego, power dynamics, and main character syndrome. 5 out of 5, no notes, better/wilder than some Stephen King short stories.

"White Nights" - A passionate but lonely man falls in love with a young woman in just four days, and learns a tough lesson in tempering our expectations and learning to live in the moment, to not hide within our impossible dreams. Maybe in our modern world filled with the false delusions of social media, this is still a very important work.