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I don't like Maud Pie, in fact I detest her. Unfortunately I am Maud Pie incarnate. So I don't think my perception of social interactions do the phenomenon justice. I have also lived quite a sheltered life and have managed overall to avoid violence, betrayal and drama. Reading these authors gives me insight into human nature because so far my fate has neglected my first hand taste of it. I know that the way people talk in Dostoyevsky/Tolstoy isn't representative of real humans, but their actions are. People are nuts and often behave in ways counter intuitive to theirs and their loved ones interests. Reading these two and their ilk offers you, at least me, very valuable lessons. These two authors and the drama that transpire in their books are quite juicy, so when I realized that pretty much every living moment, every meeting of people, every personal history, is just such a juicy and dramatic moment that could happen in their books. Just add terminal digitalization, social atomization, pony derangement, lack of hygiene etc etc and going to a BronyCon would have been complete stimulant overload to me because I'd be psychoanalyzing everything and everyone (most certainly 100% incorrectly). I hold no animosity towards you or people who dislike reading or even just these Russian authors specifically, but I do think in the deepest of my heart that we're two utterely different breeds of people. And I'd say that you're likely the person way better off and the one to be envied, because I am thoroughly soaked in self-perception, unfortunately not narcissistically tho.