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Did anyone else get to the end of this article and ask themselves, "So why did the article's author think Dostoyevsky wrote Crime and Punishment?" I felt I reached the end of the article without it substantially addressing the headline.

Or maybe I'm just not deep enough.

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I can't remember ever being satisfied with an article having a title that starts with the word "Why."

I'm going to stop reading them. Anything that starts with the word "Why" is clickbait to me now. I'm done. Also any "Top 5 blah," and any phone call where they immediately mention my car warranty.

Kind of like a corollary to Betteridge's Law of Headlines. Just as the answer to any yes/no question in a headline is "no", the answer to any "why" question in a headline is not given in the article.

I like this, I think I'll join. I have a similar list, which also includes paywalled content even when a free option exists.

Same here. It's a bunch of facts, some context, and more of a rant about the question than any attempt at answering the question.

You could even write an article asking why that original article was even written, and it might make for more interesting content.

So as to not become another Lacenaire

My reading was that the article just didn't get much deeper than "because of course this is the kind of book an indebted gambling addict with a history of physical health problems and political persecution would write."

it's your fault for reading an article that starts with "jesus meets D"

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