yeah I guess so, I've been into lot of existentialist literature lately, Henry Millers books..what I expect to find in books certainly differs from yours
I've read 'amma' from Gorky and something else too which I can't remember, and felt as exactly the same as what I felt for books like 'peralu nawum pasa' or 'waane pannaraya labu hati' ..
Tolstoy is somebody I'm willing to read and kept putting off for years lol..I guess after reading Anna Karenina, I was sorta reluctant to chew through dense paragraphs
but russians can certainly write I can tell you..
I'm a huge Dostoevsky fanwhich is why I love russian lit..and grew up reading russian fairy tales
next russian book i wanna read is Gogols dead souls
at least we have one thing in common lolz, I too hate ebooks, i need the paperback If I'm to read
if you like sci fi, you should give pilip k dick a chance..many of his work has been adapted into well known films
blade runner - do androids dream of electric sheep
minority report
pay check
a scanner darkly..etc
Yeah. even the Russian short stories are freakishly long. I don't know why they are even called "Short Stories"
I read some when I was schooling but don't remeber the names exactly. "Amma" I do remember.
Sci- Fi is a bit dissapointing sometimes. But Arthur C. Clarke's books are gold! I have read almost all of his translations.
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