Book Club Discussion 9/23/06: The Gambler (Final)

[katyseagull]

Really glad you chimed in about the book Enrique,

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I think Alexei gambled for the gamble, not to lose or to win but for the exhiliration of gambling.

...(everyone has a title that has been recently granted).

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Agree with you about Alexei's love of gamling but he certainly liked to win. I just think he wasn't that into the money after the fact. I mean maybe for a day or two it gave him a high, but he seemed to just give it away.

Interesting observation that everyone had recently been granted a title. I guess I didn't pick up on that.



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Interesting how many things get left unresolved.

I think the book was good, but I expected it to be better.

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Completely agree with you. I was hoping others would tell us if this was typical of Dostoevsky's style to leave things sort of unresolved or if it was uncharacteristically vague due to his weird contract and time constraints.