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21 Aug
2004 |
I forgot to read The Brothers Karamazov. I downloaded the PDF version of the novel long time back, maybe last year. I read more than 30 pages, and then decided to continue with a regular paperback or hardcover. Reading long streams of literature on computer screen is not only inconvenient, it doesn’t even give that feel. Holding a book, feeling the pages, turning them, using a book mark, they are all quintessential ingredients of the experience of book-reading. The only full-scaled novel I have read in digital format is Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham.
Then this year Alka got a paperback version of The Brothers Karamazov. I thought I’ll resume reading it after her. I remember about this today.
I think soon I’ll have a long list of half-read books. Oh! this is shameful!
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May 19th, 2007 at 12:13 am
Of all the novels I have read in my 55 years, this one and the Tale opf Genji by Shibiku Murasaki have left the greatest impressions on me. Both are pure genius and manage to transport the reader into a strangely distorted world far from our ordinary mundane existence. I have read them both in each decade of my life since I was a teenager. They have greatly enriched me. I recommend them to anyone who is reasonably inyelligent and not timid.