I had a funny experience reading Crime and Punishment. I read it IMMEDIATELY after I’d read A Confederacy of Dunces, and as a result, I kinda’ visualized Raskolnikov as a silly Ignatius/Falstaffian character.
Which… well, kinda’ changed the tone of the book for me.
I’ve since re-read it and had the experience more likely intended by Dostoyevski.
You know there’s a new translation (new’ish) that everyone raves about. Pevear and Volkhonsky, I think.
I tried to read it but I couldn’t stay focused. I did read it once before, in high school. It was compelling but I forgot a lot. I hated DUNCES.
To the comic: I feel like Bruno would know that if you talk to them they take it as encouragement. Even if you’re dissing them, they still take it as encouragement.
I probably would have enjoyed C&P more if I’d read those books in that order :)
@BradyDale, I listened to it a couple years back on audiobook, but if I go for it again, i might check out the new edish!
@XX, lol! :)
I imagined the main character in, “Sidhartha,” as looking like Zippy the Pinhead because I started reading both as a freshman in college and enjoyed Zippy’s particular type of zen.
I enjoyed them both.
Though it took some time for me to understand what Dunces was about, where it was going.
And I was 18 when I read C&P… I wasn’t used to knowing whodunit in the first chapter… puzzled me as to what the book was going to be ~~about! (I’d been reading Perry Mason novels and then lots of Miss Marples. Totally trained my mind in one direction!)