best five books u have read? - Page 3

Originally posted by: lucky_lakshmi

Thank you, I will soon read it for sure. Gorky, Bulgakov, Ayd Rand are some of the authors who top my wish list.-i think that you are quite fond of russian authors!!!great taste!!!!😃

Lotus.😉

Originally posted by: lotus2007

Lotus.😉

Oh Yes I most certainly am...😳 Russian Literature is my big passion. Dostoevskii is my demi God.😳😊
The Variety in Russian Literature is just amazing..I mean from the fluid, refined Tolstoy, to the mad mad world of Dostoevskii and the funny works of Gogol or the wonderfully heart rendering short stories of Anton Chekhov...I enjoy it all...Though the modernizing Turgenev just doesnt appeal to me, maybe bcoz of my own inability😳

Originally posted by: lucky_lakshmi

Oh Yes I most certainly am...😳 Russian Literature is my big passion. Dostoevskii is my demi God.😳😊The Variety in Russian Literature is just amazing..I mean from the fluid, refined Tolstoy, to the mad mad world of Dostoevskii and the funny works of Gogol or the wonderfully heart rendering short stories of Anton Chekhov...I enjoy it all...Though the modernizing Turgenev just doesnt appeal to me, maybe bcoz of my own inability😳

Turgenev is also very nice but it depends on your choice!😛maybe someday youl like his works too!!and how about Pushkin!??do you like him??
which russian books you have read???

Lotus.😉

Originally posted by: lotus2007

Turgenev is also very nice but it depends on your choice!😛maybe someday youl like his works too!!and how about Pushkin!??do you like him??
which russian books you have read???

Lotus.😉

As I said, I have read a good number of Books of Feodor Dostoevsky- Novels being Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Karamazov Brothers, The Gambler, and some ten other short stories.
Leo Tolstoy-Anna Karenina, 2-3 SS's, Gogol-Overcoat and The Nose, Chekhov's works among others...
I have read only One work of Turgenev..Thats 'Fathers and Sons'..I didnt like it mainly bcoz its lacked the very thing I love in Russian Works..Or So I felt..That being "Earthiness".
U know, the nihilist radical Hero Buzarov is one who will affect ur mind but not one who will touch an emotional or mental chord in ur heart, if U know what I mean. Turgenev's attitude is too 'direct' and too refined-ly unsympathetic. (This isnt a paradox, I know Crime and Punishment for one is too direct and harsh an indictment, but still it has got a soulful, pulsating being which I missed in Turgenev's works)
Turgenev has got a class "style of stringing words" but those words should pull the strings of ur heart, that he didn't do to me. I am someone who reads with my heart (well not literally, everyone reads with their eyes)!, But I enjoy books by writers who come write just about life without a preplanned idea of what exactly they are going to make their characters do..That is exactly why I enjoy Dostoevsky most. His works for instance are the most earthy books Ione would read. He doesn't pre plan things, Its evident that the words involuntarily flow from his pen...and also, I am someone who has existentialist views towards life and maybe its bcoz Dostoevsky is the most renowned Existentialist writer in the world, that I can relate to him most.
His books are so "thrilling"..Literally! They are so gripping, Like a roller coaster ride. Say, he is quite a wicked writer. He is Mad, He drives the reader also mad! But u see, His books are whirlpool, they pull u in, choke u, suffocate u, but the ecstasy and thre sense of having achieved something that u feel at the end of the day after reading a Dostoevsky work, I dont feel u will feel anything remotely close to that when u read books by any other. This is simply IMO though...I may be saying this coz of my own ignorance, But all said and done, Dostoevsky is more that a Writer to me-a spiritual guide, a twinkling star in the darkness..I run out of words. The way he has affected me, not one other has.
Have U read FD's Works?😊

Nope I havent read Pushkin though...I am more into 19th century Russian Literature...Havent gone to era's b4 that...Bulgakov I guess is a 20th century writer, correct me if I am wrong...?

Originally posted by: lucky_lakshmi

As I said, I have read a good number of Books of Feodor Dostoevsky- Novels being Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Karamazov Brothers, The Gambler, and some ten other short stories.Leo Tolstoy-Anna Karenina, 2-3 SS's, Gogol-Overcoat and The Nose, Chekhov's works among others...I have read only One work of Turgenev..Thats 'Fathers and Sons'..I didnt like it mainly bcoz its lacked the very thing I love in Russian Works..Or So I felt..That being "Earthiness". U know, the nihilist radical Hero Buzarov is one who will affect ur mind but not one who will touch an emotional or mental chord in ur heart, if U know what I mean. Turgenev's attitude is too 'direct' and too refined-ly unsympathetic. (This isnt a paradox, I know Crime and Punishment for one is too direct and harsh an indictment, but still it has got a soulful, pulsating being which I missed in Turgenev's works)Turgenev has got a class "style of stringing words" but those words should pull the strings of ur heart, that he didn't do to me. I am someone who reads with my heart (well not literally, everyone reads with their eyes)!, But I enjoy books by writers who come write just about life without a preplanned idea of what exactly they are going to make their characters do..That is exactly why I enjoy Dostoevsky most. His works for instance are the most earthy books Ione would read. He doesn't pre plan things, Its evident that the words involuntarily flow from his pen...and also, I am someone who has existentialist views towards life and maybe its bcoz Dostoevsky is the most renowned Existentialist writer in the world, that I can relate to him most.His books are so "thrilling"..Literally! They are so gripping, Like a roller coaster ride. Say, he is quite a wicked writer. He is Mad, He drives the reader also mad! But u see, His books are whirlpool, they pull u in, choke u, suffocate u, but the ecstasy and thre sense of having achieved something that u feel at the end of the day after reading a Dostoevsky work, I dont feel u will feel anything remotely close to that when u read books by any other. This is simply IMO though...I may be saying this coz of my own ignorance, But all said and done, Dostoevsky is more that a Writer to me-a spiritual guide, a twinkling star in the darkness..I run out of words. The way he has affected me, not one other has.Have U read FD's Works?😊Nope I havent read Pushkin though...I am more into 19th century Russian Literature...Havent gone to era's b4 that...Bulgakov I guess is a 20th century writer, correct me if I am wrong...?

you are absolutly right!!Bulgakov is a 20 century writer!!and you just have to try his "Master and Margarita"!!!its a great fiction book!!!though I dont like fiction to much,but its a nice one!!!
Im sooooo glad lakshmi ki koi toh hai yaha jiske saat main apni fav russian books discuss kar saku!!!!!kunki not everyone is fond of russian litereture naa!like you are!!!😃
Pushkin is one of the best writers and a great poet of 19 century russian litereture!!maybe you herd about his works like:"Eugene Onegin","Dubrovsky" and the firs historical novel "Captains doughter""The Tales of Belkin"-all are great👍🏼👏!!!!!!!!!I have started my reading from him!!and I love his all works!!!!!😳
try them!!!really great!!😊

Lotus.😉

^^wow thbaks u..so Pushkin is also 19th century writer..I didnt know that..In many Russian Works, I have seen references to works of Pushkin n all, But I usually just check the notes for I am not familiar with his works..
But I will definitely try out all Russian Authors whose buks I can get my hands on..These writers are Real Stuff man! 😳 😉

PS: Me also Glad to find sumone who shares this passion of mine...those who are ignorant of Russian Literature are missing something really big isnt it?!

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Originally posted by: lucky_lakshmi

^^wow thbaks u..so Pushkin is also 19th century writer..I didnt know that..In many Russian Works, I have seen references to works of Pushkin n all, But I usually just check the notes for I am not familiar with his works..
But I will definitely try out all Russian Authors whose buks I can get my hands on..These writers are Real Stuff man! 😳 😉

Yah definitly try out Pushkin's works!!!im sure youl love them!!!!!!!!!
and please do share your views on books you read!!im really interested!!😳

PS: Me also Glad to find sumone who shares this passion of mine...those who are ignorant of Russian Literature are missing something really big isnt it?!

You are so right lakshmi they are missing something really great😆😳!!!!!!!!!!

Lotus.😉

I went to the library and Ransacked it for Master and Margarita..Cant believe I didnt find it after all the toil I went thru! Ridiculous!!! 😡 😭 😭
I take at least one Russian work everytime I go to the library...Cannot break the custom! 😳 😆 so took out Dostoevsky's Notes from Underrgound...cant wait to get started! 😳

Originally posted by: lucky_lakshmi

I went to the library and Ransacked it for Master and Margarita..Cant believe I didnt find it after all the toil I went thru! Ridiculous!!! 😡 😭 😭
I take at least one Russian work everytime I go to the library...Cannot break the custom! 😳 😆 so took out Dostoevsky's Notes from Underrgound...cant wait to get started! 😳

Really you are to fond of Dostoevsky!!!😃and russian books!!!!!!great!!👏👏👏
what about "War and Peace"??do you like it???or you havent read it yet???😳

Lotus.😉