/lit/ - Literature

Anybody else getting real tired of reading fiction? The first books that you read are amazing, but after a while you feel like you've seen everything adn that you don't learn much from reading fiction anymore. Usually all that is new in a book can be summed up in a few sentences and you don't get that novel feeling you had back when you were starting to read great novels for the first time.

I'm writing a book; PLEASE talk to me. I'm going insane from all the boredom of the lockdown quarantine and I can't go to my literature department anymore. Literally ask me anything and I'll answer, free (You)s.

>>14987254
>Maybe it's not your cup of tea, try reading other of his works to find out.
I have fourteen books in total by Dostoyevsky; some are different translations of the same book. Read a ton of him when I was in high school, and this year after finishing my bachelor's and starting my Master's (on Finance), I was feeling like using all of my free time available to catch up on the literature that I wanted to read so I did myself a big favor and bought all the Dostoyevsky books for cheap that I wanted to read on Amazon. Turns out they are really not that good for a mind that has gone through a lot of reading and especially one that has found its way into the works of Nabokov (which is the greatest russian writer). Reading either C&P or The Brothers Karamazov now feels so stultifying to me now that it borders on an insult; Dostoievsky doesn't know how to handle prose or to make a well-balanced story at all. The only reedemable book is Notes From the Underground, and that's because at least the first little half of the book consists of primarily philosophical ramblings and thoughts and I don't have to go through the unfortunate ignominy of having to read thorugh his awful writing and that little puddle of mediocre prose.