How Can Someone Like Dostoyevsky, But Not Like "Twilight"?

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Haha, Excellent topic, and so true

I am a girl who reads and I also despise twilight, stephanie meyer has a horrible writing style, the stories are tedious teen dramas and bella swan is the worst character in any medium, ever. I won't even go into that one...

Playing devils advocate though 'liking' Dostoyevsky is almost as equal of a stretch as liking twilight. While Dostoyevsky is a masterful writer and some of his works are bona fide classics. His works are extremely tedious also, of course this is somewhat counterbalanced by the real value in the morals and insight they provide to the reader (much unlike twilight) but rarely have I ever heard someone say they 'like' Dostoyevsky. While the value of such works are not reallly in dispute by anyone, whether or not they hold your interest enough to enjoy them certainly is by many.

However I did some art history and philospohy of art papers in my degree and we had a few fine artists who said they liked him, but they were so pretentious I strongly believe they were just doing it to annoy people. Even the lecturers admitted that they worried about the perception of 'fun' of someone who would avidly enjoy such works.

But then my absolute favourite classic work is Paradise Lost which is widely considered to be one of the most boring works in the written canon so I'm probably being hypocritcal by even saying this, take my opinion with a grain of salt on this one.