i started reading notes from underground a few weeks ago. i picked it because i really really REALLY like albert camus’ work and figured it would be a little similar.
it is, i think, but i’m not enjoying it at all. it feels too depressing and dark and i feel like it smells bad (lol). i’m just not loving it and i have a lot of other books that i want to read now but i feel the pressure to finish this one. it’s a short book so it shouldn’t take me long but still.
i can’t get myself to leave it unfinished, i feel like i’m commiting a sin or something lmao.
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by NonHappySisyphus
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It smells bad because you’ve already “read” it. If you’ve read a good amount of Camus you can leave this book out because it has been redone better by Camus and others. Drop it, you’re not missing anything and move on.
It’s 100 pages, just read it.
Honestly, the second half of Notes From Underground has much more momentum. The first half gets a little suffocated in Dostoyevsky’s critiques of utopian philosophers of the period.
I was in the same situation twice with that book. I never finished it because I’m miserable enough.