5\/5<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t know what to say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Already I feel like a thimble trying to catch an ocean of meaning. And I know most of it has been lost already. All that remains is this slightly sickening and profound feeling that I won\u2019t read something like that for a long time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m scared to think of what Dostoevsky was like as a person in order to write that. I knew he was sent to the gulags etc but oh my god.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t actually think 5\/5 makes any sense for a book like this. It\u2019s like giving a rating of 5\/5 to life itself. The book was long, sickening, smart, human, and has done something to me that I haven\u2019t yet digested or processed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What just happened? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
All I can say is that I\u2019m glad my memory is so weak and short so I will not be required to carry the weight and ideas of that novel in my head any more. I don\u2019t think a book has done anything like that to me. The build up from part six until the end – I don\u2019t think my insides have churned and clenched so tightly before, from any source of media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It feels like I\u2019m now wearing a heavy cloak, constantly feeling the weight and presence of what I just read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I feel like I am a cockroach and someone\u2019s boot hangs above me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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