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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
informative
reflective
medium-paced
-از خود میپرسم:《بستگی من به این تکیه گاه چه صورتی دارد؟》
خود را با دستان خویش لمس میکنم، به دور و بر خود می نگرم و می بینم درست در زیر تنه و جسم من یک بند وجود دارد و هنگامی که به بالا نگاه می کنم، قرار و استقرار من بر آن کاملا متعادل است. همین یک بند بوده که از مرا بر روی خود نگاه داشته است.
احساساتم نسبت به این کتاب مبهم و غیر قابل توصیفه. از اون دسته آثاریه که شاید تا آخر عمر ذهنتو درگیر خودش نگه داره.
خود را با دستان خویش لمس میکنم، به دور و بر خود می نگرم و می بینم درست در زیر تنه و جسم من یک بند وجود دارد و هنگامی که به بالا نگاه می کنم، قرار و استقرار من بر آن کاملا متعادل است. همین یک بند بوده که از مرا بر روی خود نگاه داشته است.
احساساتم نسبت به این کتاب مبهم و غیر قابل توصیفه. از اون دسته آثاریه که شاید تا آخر عمر ذهنتو درگیر خودش نگه داره.
First part was somewhat over my head. During the second half of the book he has some good insight into the discovery of faith.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This feels so much like Surprised by Joy by CS Lewis. However, Lewis came to the definitive answer of Christianity while Tolstoy ends on a less decided note.
He says there is much truth in Theism, and Christianity in particular, but that the Orthodox Church he grew up in also has much falsehood that he can't reconcile.
I wonder if he ever published anything later in his life where he'd reached some definite conclusions.
He says there is much truth in Theism, and Christianity in particular, but that the Orthodox Church he grew up in also has much falsehood that he can't reconcile.
I wonder if he ever published anything later in his life where he'd reached some definite conclusions.
i too grew up catholic and renounced my religion, however i stayed trued to that decision ever since. this bum had an identity crisis his whole life over religion like ugh pick a side already!!!
but seriously, this was good and i liked it a lot.
i will be rereading again and again.
but i cant say i love it because a lot of the writing confused me and i had to take my sweet time understanding some paragraphs, rereading them 3-4 times before grasping anything.
“At this time I began to write, out of vanity, greed, and pride. In my writing I did the same as in life. To have the fame and the money for which I was writing I had to conceal the good and display the bad. So I did. How many times under the pretense of indifference and even of slight mockery did I contrive to conceal my aspirations to good, which constituted the meaning of my life? And I achieved my aim: I was praised.”
he’s an attention whore just like me!!
i want to quote more but im too lazy to type. read it
but seriously, this was good and i liked it a lot.
i will be rereading again and again.
but i cant say i love it because a lot of the writing confused me and i had to take my sweet time understanding some paragraphs, rereading them 3-4 times before grasping anything.
“At this time I began to write, out of vanity, greed, and pride. In my writing I did the same as in life. To have the fame and the money for which I was writing I had to conceal the good and display the bad. So I did. How many times under the pretense of indifference and even of slight mockery did I contrive to conceal my aspirations to good, which constituted the meaning of my life? And I achieved my aim: I was praised.”
he’s an attention whore just like me!!
i want to quote more but im too lazy to type. read it
slow-paced
Tolstoy's struggle with the meaning of life and his suicidal ideation really inform some of his best characters. I'm thinking of Pierre Bezukhoz. I appreciate Tolstoy's struggle here but I think he packs more of a punch when he puts these thoughts and concerns into his characters than he does when he just says them outright.
Bana biraz Tolstoyun viyaklamaları gibi geldi (Allah affetsin). Varoluşsal bunalımları, Tanrı vs..
TW: reads like a long suicide letter until he becomes religious
Pros
Easy to read and accessible
Surprisingly (to me) relatable
Humanises people like Tolstoy who has been put on the pedestal of literature
Interesting to see his open thought process of trying to find the meaning or life and a purpose to live, how he tries to ask others and organise their answers in categories, how he perceives religion and it's flaws.
Cons
Reads like the diary of a naive 20 year old in our times (which I did like because it humanises him but he is in his 50s when he writes this)
He starts off claiming that women, uneducated and marginalized people are ignorant and that's how they can live without having phylosphical frustrations like himself. Throughout the book we get to see the begining of his anarchist thinking and starting to appreciate poor people, although it's still very classist. Women are still labled as only ignorant.
Ends on an odd note of: there will be other books explaining his believes after he starts to question the church as a Christian, which I found frustrating.
Pros
Easy to read and accessible
Surprisingly (to me) relatable
Humanises people like Tolstoy who has been put on the pedestal of literature
Interesting to see his open thought process of trying to find the meaning or life and a purpose to live, how he tries to ask others and organise their answers in categories, how he perceives religion and it's flaws.
Cons
Reads like the diary of a naive 20 year old in our times (which I did like because it humanises him but he is in his 50s when he writes this)
He starts off claiming that women, uneducated and marginalized people are ignorant and that's how they can live without having phylosphical frustrations like himself. Throughout the book we get to see the begining of his anarchist thinking and starting to appreciate poor people, although it's still very classist. Women are still labled as only ignorant.
Ends on an odd note of: there will be other books explaining his believes after he starts to question the church as a Christian, which I found frustrating.
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced