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Wow. Elaine Send a noteboard - 17/02/2010 12:44:51 PM

It sounds great and I will do my best to participate. The reading isn't a problem, it's time online to discuss the reading that is. Blasted work.

February 15, 2011: Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. We end our Russian Book Club with one of the most significant books written in the history of Russian literature. Dostoevsky's final novel represents the pinnacle of his thought and stands as one of the crowning achievements of Nineteenth Century literature. It is the story of the sons of one man, and how each of them chose radically different paths in life, and how each is unable to reconcile their lives to the ideals that they are asked to live up to by society. It is a story of murder, the miscarriage of justice, the failures of religion, the isolation of the free thinking modern man and the dangers of the mob. It is also a dark prophecy of what Russia would become in the Soviet Union.


My favourite Charades title :D Very very cruel, I am.
Elaine
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THE RUSSIAN BOOK CLUB - 16/02/2010 02:48:20 PM 1479 Views
how much do you think is lost in translation? - 16/02/2010 03:36:10 PM 786 Views
Most of these books probably won't lose too much. - 16/02/2010 04:34:08 PM 972 Views
I know I'm being wholly irrational, but... - 16/02/2010 05:30:23 PM 891 Views
It's only at this site. - 16/02/2010 10:38:58 PM 738 Views
Not a lot, honestly. I've read quite a few of them in Russian and in English. - 16/02/2010 05:25:54 PM 719 Views
Okay, duly noted. - 16/02/2010 05:30:33 PM 709 Views
For instance, for this one - 16/02/2010 05:33:06 PM 792 Views
Yah, I know some - 16/02/2010 07:25:02 PM 779 Views
Do I have to return the postcard if I don't want the montly selection? - 16/02/2010 05:32:05 PM 824 Views
I promise you something!!! - 16/02/2010 05:34:03 PM 1115 Views
I'll try to participate - 16/02/2010 09:45:29 PM 732 Views
It's your choice. - 17/02/2010 01:20:46 PM 839 Views
Nice. I'll probably end up doing about four or five of these. *NM* - 16/02/2010 11:51:13 PM 507 Views
Already read 7 of these - 17/02/2010 03:12:33 AM 832 Views
Let me guess - 17/02/2010 01:19:25 PM 750 Views
Not hard to guess, huh? - 17/02/2010 11:20:32 PM 783 Views
Wow. - 17/02/2010 12:44:51 PM 891 Views
That is a very mean charades title. - 17/02/2010 01:11:05 PM 795 Views
Nobody has ever gotten it. - 17/02/2010 01:31:37 PM 837 Views
I currently have four of these wrangled together. - 17/02/2010 02:01:26 PM 746 Views
Well, I've started Doctor Zhivago. - 17/02/2010 02:59:44 PM 844 Views
In cases like this, - 17/02/2010 03:18:16 PM 774 Views
There's not really that much skipping around. - 17/02/2010 03:23:45 PM 761 Views
Hm. Looks like I already missed an important point there... go me. - 17/02/2010 03:41:37 PM 1018 Views
Yura is the nickname form. - 17/02/2010 03:56:47 PM 796 Views
Aww, did you move The Master and Margarita just for me? - 17/02/2010 07:34:43 PM 913 Views
More or less, yes. - 17/02/2010 09:01:10 PM 815 Views
*SNORE.* *NM* - 18/02/2010 05:59:03 AM 513 Views
*bore* *NM* - 18/02/2010 06:12:49 AM 355 Views
How constructive! - 22/02/2010 12:08:47 AM 993 Views
I'm in. *NM* - 20/02/2010 09:53:01 AM 322 Views

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