True-Abbreviations71 OP t1_iyf5t1l wrote on November 30, 2022 at 10:53 PM

Reply to comment by Shanks-Akagami in Is Dostojevsky a bad author? by True-Abbreviations71

That's why I am so confused. I expected to enjoy every page and that it would read like cutting through melted butter. But what i got was more like chopping through a wooden log with a butter knife

twilightsagawebcomic t1_iyf7df2 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 11:05 PM

I LOVE Dostoyevsky but I do not think that he is necessarily easy or even enjoyable to read. But I did find Crime and Punishment genuinely transformative and I learned a lot about how to write from him as well. I think the power of his work is less in the pace or the prose and more in the powerful concepts and how he carries the reader to new destinations