C.S. Lewis was the proto-Jordane Peterson. Held up to be this paragon of insight with absolutely the emptiest, laziest thinking going on in the background.
I agree to a point, but A Grief Observed is genuinely one of the best books about loss ever written. I know so many people who found no other book helpful except that one.
Jordan Peterson is incapable of having that kind of impact on people imo.
Yeah that's fair I'm only familiar with his apologetics output.
I've read Brothers' K as well as other Dostoevsky. I have to agree with Nabokov here and say that he is by far the most over-rated Russian writer. That book just goes on forever, and (spoiler alert) it ends with a corpse giving off a magical beautiful scent. As for Dostoevsky's famed psychological depth, his characters sometimes do things they don't mean to do, and it's hard for them to understand this. Whoopdee doo!
Gogol is so much more fun and irreverent. Dostoevsky recycles his opening lines—compare the openings of The Brothers Karamazov with Demons. They're almost the same, word for word. Gogol, meanwhile, is just this font of inventiveness and hilarity. No other Russian writer is funnier or wittier. If you can see the Soviet film version of Crime and Punishment, though, it's really really good.
Tolstoy has a weird political outlook (forgive me my Christian anarchist brothers) but his stories and characters are second-to-none. The million-hour Bondarchuk version of War and Peace is absolutely spectacular and very true to the novel—cutting out all the boring parts, like Tolstoy's endless sermonizing. See it on a big screen with powerful speakers if you can so you can really enjoy the battle scenes with like thousands of extras, as well as the blasting music.
Back in my Mormon days I read the entire KJV Bible cover to cover. I don't really remember most of it though because I would read a chapter a night before bed and most of the time I was too tired to really absorb and make sense of what I was reading, especially with shit like Isaiah.
Yeah, also read through the Bible and Book of Mormon as a kid, but went to a weird Christian military school and learned most of the Bible in-depth, at least on the days when I didn't use that time for a nap. Sitting next to a radiator after lunch, I couldn't keep my eyes open, lol. I still like the Bible as art and the cultural impact is interesting to study, sometimes.
Yea I agree, as an archeology/anthropology nerd I think the bible is really interesting for the insight it gives into what ancient Jewish culture was like.
Also where's the motherfuckin KIERKEGAARD on this list.
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