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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Tolstoy is the superior author, but it's an acquired taste that often comes later in life. When I was in college, a fair number of people I knew were into Dostoyevsky, I don't recall anyone being into Tolstoy. Dostoyevsky's novels I think are more accessible. They're shorter and focus on the psychological state of a smaller number of characters. And Dostoyevsky just seems more, dare I say, edgy. "I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I think my liver is diseased" vs. long discussions of Russian farming methods and 50-page treaties on theories of history. Should add that Dostoyevsky himself believed Tolstoy to be the superior author.[/quote] BK is basically 800 pages of Orthodox Christianity apologetics (still a great literary work, but not "edgy" lol).[/quote]
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