First thoughts

After reading the first paragraph of the book, I knew that it would be a really dense and long read. He jumps from one idea to the other, then contradicts the first, and then ties up how the first two actually make sense. It's even complicated to explain. Dostoyetsky is brilliant, and you can sense that feeling of brilliance because he has so many ideas and thoughts that arise during his writing. He's essentially rambling constantly. In his rambles, line by line, he creates a new and developed idea.

The way I've perceived the first 10 pages or so is that he is mocking human nature, and the human nature of over thinking and over analyzing. It's an ironic concept too, as he says how over thinking (at one point) hurts us so much psychologically that we feel pain. And that self-put pain at one point feels really satisfying. It's ironic in the sense that it's a 'normal' thing to do and that 'normal' people do it. But he is completely over analyzing the over analyzing of human beings.

Overall, I think the book is a great way to sort of analyze literature and it shows the reader that there can be many perspectives to even the most simple ideas. I haven't read anyone else's blogs today, but I'm sure people caught onto other ideas, as it is possible to extract hundreds of perspectives on just the first 10-20 pages of the book.