Thread 24857528

This was a big letdown and a waste of time.
I'll never take advice from you guys ever again.

>>24857528 (OP)
This place is full of miserablists spamming 19thC forever alone Bildungsroman russian slop.

Read the Iliad, Shakespeare and Paradise Lost. Then your favourite genre fiction. That's literally all you need.

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>>24857582
Solid answer, thanks

>>24857582
You forgot the genre of rich people sitting in each others' houses discussing each other

>>24857528 (OP)
>>24857582
He's the only great stylist in Russian.

It needs some context and familiarity with the Byronic hero for you to appreciate it. As the title should suggest

>>24857582
Paradise Lost suffers from the things Samuel Johnson observed it did but Shakespeare and Homer have unlimited reread value, you can read the same thing by either every day without it getting old

>>24857582
>Paradise Lost
Massively overrated, boring, poorly written and uninformative.
You're better off just reading a list of the best quoted and pretending you've read it. Same effect with less wasted time.
>Better to rule in Hell than to serve in heaven
And so I've read the book.

>>24857582
>Sloppadise Slopped
>in preference to Dante
Divine Cillyourself

>>24857528 (OP)
>This was a big letdown
You must be 18 to post here. Imagine being filtered by modern hero.
Also if you learned english before russian, you are fucked.

>>24857528 (OP)
Seems like he was trying to say something about immortality and fate, but it's not clear to me what is it that he was trying to say.

Is it that you may be immortal for a while until your fate makes you die.

What do you think, anon?

>>24857528 (OP)
>This was a big letdown and a waste of time.
Agreed. You should have just read Pushkin, Gogol or Goncharov.

>>24858463
Why should he read Gorbachev?
You think Perestroika is such an important topic?

>>24857648
Gay faggot.

>>24857528 (OP)
You're missing key biographical context OP. Lermontov was rejected by a teenage crush so he spent his entire twenties seducing various beautiful women, making them fall madly in love with him, and then mercilessly crushing their souls and often publicly humiliating them in the process. He's literally a real-life hero of vengeance for incels, and that's what makes him based.

>>24859362
Oh, forgot to method that he also used this method on said teenage crush. Turns out she made fun of him in her diary when she was a teen and knew he was in love with her, so she definitely deserved it.

>>24857596
But if the characters are good this is a lot of fun. You've basically described a lot of Jane Austen's stuff but I love Austen precisely because I enjoy her characters and her particular way of exploring their inner lives.

>>24859362
>other poeple should suffer because I am dysgenic
>reeeee
Wow so based