Have I read this before: I…I don’t recall, actually. Which either means a) I’ve never read it, or b) I read it when I was like 13 and it went way over my head. 

Review: The general interactions of Arkady, Bazarov, and Nikolay really remind me of another book I’ve read at some point, but I can’t place it. Hell, maybe it’s this one, haha, and I just can’t remember reading this book in the past. But I feel like I’ve read another story recently where a son comes home with a friend and the friend has influenced the son’s views enough so that his parents are quite upset about it.

I could be wrong, though.

Favorite Part: this quote from Bazarov: “while I think that here I am lying under a haystack…the tiny area I occupy is so minute by comparison with the rest of space, where I don’t exist, which doesn’t bother with me. And the span of time I’ll be able to live out is so insignificant before he eternity where I haven’t been and where I will not be…yet in this atom, in this mathematical dot blood is circulating, a brain is functioning and wanting something too…what a monstrous state of affairs! What nonsense!”

Rating: 5/10