Have you ever felt physical pain while reading?

Yes. When I dropped an 800 page brick upon my nose.

>>24567289
Why do you read like that

>>24567276 (OP)
Felt something similar reading Dostoevsky’s Demons when I knew “that” was gonna happen as a certainty and as a reader there was nothing I could do about it. It was more like I felt I was getting physically ill. I get too involved with fiction sometimes

I always feel physical pain.

>>24567276 (OP)
Why do people like this book so much? I remember reading it and thinking that both the protagonist and the girl were pathetic retards

>>24568314
comfy

>>24568598
It sucks. People only "like" it because its short and easy. Babys first dostoyevsky.

>>24568598
Tell me you've never loved someone in a hopeless endeavor without telling me you've never loved someone in a hopeless endeavor.

>>24568598
If you don't understand White Nights you have no soul.

I developed a heart condition and pain in my side and thought I was going to die, and I vividly remember reading the death of ivan ilyich and feeling pain in my side in the same place ivan experiences it which precedes his death. Surreal experience

>>24568323
Lol theres like 2 or 3 different "thats" in that book

>>24567276 (OP)
>"I was thinking about you" she said after a minute's silence. "You are so kind that I should be a stone if I did not feel it. Do you know what has occurred to me now? I was comparing you two. Why isn't he like you? He is not as good as you, though I love him more than you"

>>24567276 (OP)
Thinking about the anon a few months ago who explained how zoomers are obsessed with this book and he met a girl who bonded with him over it just so she can do the exact same thing Nastenka does to him.

>>24568897
Yes true I was specifically referring to when they were making plans for Shatov’s death. Very cruel but effective of Dostoevsky to show us him going through life unawares while we the reader knew what was about to happen. The censored chapter was shocking too ofc but I was kind of too astounded by the ending and what the deleted chapter revealed being placed at the end of the book for that to have the same effect

>>24567276 (OP)
A girl I loved gifted me a book and it was physically painful reading it when our romance fell apart

>>24569023
Is everything this dude wrote some roastie-worshipping cuckshit?

>>24569156
Dosto was a giga simp both for whores and for jewsus

>>24569156
>>24569403
You're missing the point competely or just shitposting. He was able to describe describe how absurdly evil, ruinous and psychotic women can be. To the point of destroying lives, to the point of leading men to death and physical illness. All this while trying to maintain "purity" and "virtue" on the facade.
Is it wrong to assume that you've read the author if you post in a certain thread?

>>24569815
Those are not his intentions. The cuck narrator of White Nights ends the book by praising the whore because Dostoevsky was a servile loser enslaved to women’s passions. He never wrote them well

>>24567276 (OP)
I really enjoyed White Nights even through the narrator gave off hella sperg vibes

Almost always when I stand and read or read holding a book up rather than using a desk and leaning over it in a padded chair.
The mind is willing the the flesh is weak.

>>24567276 (OP)
Whats this about? I read the one with the husband and his young wife or something but that sucked

>>24570177
No. I think he captures how women behave quite well. His priorities generally lie in mocking or saying things about the types of neurotic intellectual spergs in society that resembled his own past self, who he hated. He often does this by having them be socially retarded, including with women. The women exist to be inflection points for main characters like Raskolnikov, the Underground Man, etc.