THE JACKET LOL In a weird way, aren't there slight similarities between Monster and Crime & Punishment? Both involve killers trying to justify their actions and destroying themselves in the process It's really interesting hearing about Rasko's random acts of extreme kindness like with that student and his invalid father. Maybe it shows that he does care about morality really and his ubermench ideas are a mask over his true self Bro I agree about darker/more realistic narratives ironically giving more hope than lighter narratives. I think it's because with a light hearted story even when it delivers a positive message you kind of know in the back of your mind that this isn't something commonly or easily applicable to real life. But with darker narratives that capture reality more accurately, a hopeful message they send is more powerful because it's easier to actually relate it to real life. Does that make sense? Notes from a Dead House shoutout! CABBAGE SOUP WITH COCKROACHES TSUNDERE RASKOLNIKOV LOL The last sentence, omg...that was quite something. Leaves me wondering what Raskolnikov could have done after all this I agree with your analysis on Rasko's character, I kind of said something similar earlier in my comment about his morality LMAO the sound effects at 53:45 made me laugh even though it's a fucked up topic The tier list haha, what was up with girlboss...there should be a boyfailure tier instead for raskolnikov Btw can you remind me who's Luzhin You're right at the end that not everyone is into the kind of pacing and focus the book has. We are though cause we're cool kids 😎 Bruh at the end you should've expanded on what you wanted to say about monster cause I also said earlier there are vaguely similar vibes between them YOO YOU ADDRESSED ME AT THE END, I feel so speshul omg. And yeah I'll definitely reread this
LMAO how you're still calling him Rasko even here... truly one of the tsundere boyfailures of all time. But yeah thanks for checking this out and especially for encouraging me to do it at all! I'm glad you liked what I had to say on the book even though it was kinda scattered/unstructured. And yes, your comment on darker narratives feeling more impactful specifically because they reflect reality makes complete sense; I felt something very similar but didn't really think to articulate it. It's like, fiction is always a nice way to escape reality for a bit yeah, but with darker stories like this it just inevitably makes you think about reality anyway. It feels less like running away from uncomfortable dilemmas/questions and more like being forced to think about real life to an extent anyway -- about things that "matter" if that makes sense, idk Oddly specific btw but whenever the idea of the fucking cabbage soup with cockroaches comes up I just think of the cabbage stall dude from Avatar yelling "MY CABBAGE SOUP!!" LOL... I'm excited for when you do get around to rereading this so we can talk about it more! But to remind you until then: Luzhin is the dude who Dunia was initially going to marry. He pretty much just seems like a vain & arrogant businessman earlier on but as the story goes on you see his true(r) colors and he just gets so much worse lol, clearly wanting so badly to lord his financial power over Dunia and her mother and make them both indebted to him completely, even on an emotional level. It's like this weird sick power fantasy he has and there's a whole chapter going into his perspective where you see how much he disrespects and mistreats various people including Sonia, it's repulsive to read To elaborate on the Monster parallel. What I had in mind was mostly just how both narratives have a strikingly gloomy atmosphere to them that predominates the story and its events, but also a very notable attachment(?) to demonstrating how the human spirit can shine through at many memorable points throughout. Just the intense descriptions of both cruelty and compassion present in both stories, the links between general enjoyment of life and respect for others' lives, the deep delving into murderers' psyches (though the murderers in each are obv quite different in many ways despite some similarities lol). And both just made me think very very much about how exactly nature and nurture interact to make a person who they are, how much someone's actions can or should be blamed on each, etc
@@D23RDM I'm so glad you made this video! Soon I'll catch up with your monster reactions. If you read more books in the future I would look forward to more book reviews
Reading & Commentary (Part 1) -- 2:13
Reading & Commentary (Part 2) -- 27:11
Discussion -- 50:18
Characters/Tier List -- 56:21
Final Thoughts -- 1:04:37
THE JACKET LOL
In a weird way, aren't there slight similarities between Monster and Crime & Punishment? Both involve killers trying to justify their actions and destroying themselves in the process
It's really interesting hearing about Rasko's random acts of extreme kindness like with that student and his invalid father. Maybe it shows that he does care about morality really and his ubermench ideas are a mask over his true self
Bro I agree about darker/more realistic narratives ironically giving more hope than lighter narratives. I think it's because with a light hearted story even when it delivers a positive message you kind of know in the back of your mind that this isn't something commonly or easily applicable to real life. But with darker narratives that capture reality more accurately, a hopeful message they send is more powerful because it's easier to actually relate it to real life. Does that make sense?
Notes from a Dead House shoutout! CABBAGE SOUP WITH COCKROACHES
TSUNDERE RASKOLNIKOV LOL
The last sentence, omg...that was quite something. Leaves me wondering what Raskolnikov could have done after all this
I agree with your analysis on Rasko's character, I kind of said something similar earlier in my comment about his morality
LMAO the sound effects at 53:45 made me laugh even though it's a fucked up topic
The tier list haha, what was up with girlboss...there should be a boyfailure tier instead for raskolnikov
Btw can you remind me who's Luzhin
You're right at the end that not everyone is into the kind of pacing and focus the book has. We are though cause we're cool kids 😎
Bruh at the end you should've expanded on what you wanted to say about monster cause I also said earlier there are vaguely similar vibes between them
YOO YOU ADDRESSED ME AT THE END, I feel so speshul omg. And yeah I'll definitely reread this
LMAO how you're still calling him Rasko even here... truly one of the tsundere boyfailures of all time. But yeah thanks for checking this out and especially for encouraging me to do it at all! I'm glad you liked what I had to say on the book even though it was kinda scattered/unstructured. And yes, your comment on darker narratives feeling more impactful specifically because they reflect reality makes complete sense; I felt something very similar but didn't really think to articulate it. It's like, fiction is always a nice way to escape reality for a bit yeah, but with darker stories like this it just inevitably makes you think about reality anyway. It feels less like running away from uncomfortable dilemmas/questions and more like being forced to think about real life to an extent anyway -- about things that "matter" if that makes sense, idk
Oddly specific btw but whenever the idea of the fucking cabbage soup with cockroaches comes up I just think of the cabbage stall dude from Avatar yelling "MY CABBAGE SOUP!!" LOL...
I'm excited for when you do get around to rereading this so we can talk about it more! But to remind you until then: Luzhin is the dude who Dunia was initially going to marry. He pretty much just seems like a vain & arrogant businessman earlier on but as the story goes on you see his true(r) colors and he just gets so much worse lol, clearly wanting so badly to lord his financial power over Dunia and her mother and make them both indebted to him completely, even on an emotional level. It's like this weird sick power fantasy he has and there's a whole chapter going into his perspective where you see how much he disrespects and mistreats various people including Sonia, it's repulsive to read
To elaborate on the Monster parallel. What I had in mind was mostly just how both narratives have a strikingly gloomy atmosphere to them that predominates the story and its events, but also a very notable attachment(?) to demonstrating how the human spirit can shine through at many memorable points throughout. Just the intense descriptions of both cruelty and compassion present in both stories, the links between general enjoyment of life and respect for others' lives, the deep delving into murderers' psyches (though the murderers in each are obv quite different in many ways despite some similarities lol). And both just made me think very very much about how exactly nature and nurture interact to make a person who they are, how much someone's actions can or should be blamed on each, etc
@@D23RDM I'm so glad you made this video! Soon I'll catch up with your monster reactions. If you read more books in the future I would look forward to more book reviews