Unhinged Book Review: Notes From Underground

All right, this is gonna be a bit of a different video than what I've been uploading lately This is actually gonna be a book review As the title suggests I'm gonna be reviewing Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky I don't know how to pronounce his first name so I won't even be trying and Yeah, this is my copy here. I have a hardcover with the golden name there on the spine Notes from Underground and And Yeah, I'd like to start by reading a passage from this book And you know, it's a smart person book when it's got one of these things in there That's that's you know, it's gonna have a lot of big words in it. So let's open that up Olympia's mine gentlemen. It's agreed cried Zverkov, I think that's how you say that Zverkov No objections. No objections. They answered laughing. I stood there spat upon The bunch noisily left the room true trudeau trudeau Lea Bov Struck up some stupid song Simonov stayed behind for a tiny moment to tip the waiters Communists tipping. Hmm. I don't know about that I subtly went over to him Simonov could give me six rubles. I said Resolutely and desperately he looked at me in extreme astonishment his eyes somehow dull He too was drunk. That is a passage from Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky No particular reason I read that that's just the first page I opened it up to and the first thing I happened to see I thought it was funny that this communist guy's asking this other guy for ruples and then he's like taken back by it and then He's The line he too was drunk. I just like that is implying that everybody's drunk there all the time But yeah a little bit about the book Dostoyevsky I would say is like the original incel You maybe would have to go back to like ancient Greek times to some of those philosophers to get the level of incel that Dostoyevsky is I've read the book I think twice now and I've had it for a long time. It's uh, it's pretty much just him complaining about how horribly depressing life in like I think it takes place in like the mid to late 1800s in Russia, I believe in st. Petersburg and Yeah, it's it's like the most depressing book, but it's like funny at the same time. It's like I don't know It's hard to explain It's just a very very bizarre kind of book and I've never really found anything else quite like it. It's just a Essentially just like a whiny communist complaining about communism. Like that's That's really all it is so Yeah, that's That's really all I have to say about the book. There's not much else to it than that It's just a guy complaining about how shitty his life is Yeah, and it's it's not an easy read I find myself having to read through like each sentence like two or three times to actually get what he's saying because It's written. It's directly translated like straight translation from Russian like 18 like or 19th century Russian so it's not exactly the easiest to read in the world and It's just full of unpronounceable names So, yeah, that's pretty much notes from underground It is actually a somewhat good book like there is some actual good stuff in there Like he gives advice on like if your life is like miserable and you're like lonely and depressed He gives like little bits of advice and wisdom about that kind of stuff, which is kind of cool To me, it's almost just like a it's like equal parts tragedy and comedy at the same time It's it's a very interesting book I think I picked my copy up on Amazon and it was like 20 bucks for a hardcover. Like it's not an expensive book. It's actually quite a thin Quite a thin small book like it's not big at all. It's how many pages is it? Let's see here 126 pages and the last word in the book in case you're wondering is I don't know. That's not the last that's like the Appendix or whatever you call the thing at the end of the book. Oh, that was the like the notes section Yeah, the last sentence in the book is But enough I don't want to write any more from underground Yeah Interesting book Give it a read. You can probably get a paperback for like five bucks on Amazon. It's uh, we're just pirate the audiobook It's it's it's such an old book. You're not really stealing from anyone because anyone involved with this book is long dead so Yeah, give it a try And go into it with the mindset that he is like the king incel and it's it the book very quickly becomes a comedy Yeah, give it a look see what you think and uh, yeah, this has been a very random kind of video I don't actually read books. I haven't read a book I read this one again, maybe two years ago Since then I haven't read it a book and before that I didn't read another book for years So, um, don't expect more of these reviews because I don't read books so Yeah, that's about all I have to say about that Take care