08-19-2022, 02:27 AM
Better suggestion: get a small tablet or reader device and log on here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/
(Project Gutenberg, a repository of free e-books mostly in the public domain -- anything in final form as of December 31, 1924... and on January 1, anything completed before December 31, 1925). This may not apply to translations made after then.
Start reading great literature and become less boring.
OK, if you spend a couple months reading The Brothers Karamazov, you might begin to sound like someone whose first language is Russian due to Dostoevsky's sentence structure, but what the heck?
https://www.gutenberg.org/
(Project Gutenberg, a repository of free e-books mostly in the public domain -- anything in final form as of December 31, 1924... and on January 1, anything completed before December 31, 1925). This may not apply to translations made after then.
Start reading great literature and become less boring.
OK, if you spend a couple months reading The Brothers Karamazov, you might begin to sound like someone whose first language is Russian due to Dostoevsky's sentence structure, but what the heck?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.