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Story of faith and doubt. It also is a story of Russia and the Russian peasant. There is a lot of contrasts in the book. Ivan and Alyosha are opposites. One a man of faith and the other a man of doubts. Dimitri the first born son is a wild, reactive man who is loud in his abusive threats but really in the middle between his two brothers. It is a story of Russia, a story of a dysfunctional family and a story of faith and doubt.
I rate it 5 stars because it is very good. I liked Crime and Punishme ...more
I rate it 5 stars because it is very good. I liked Crime and Punishme ...more
When my husband and I got married and combined our libraries, we discovered between us we owned at least 4 copies of this book. Then when I went to re-read it (yet again), could not find any of these copies - so now we own another copy.
Aye yi yi.
I didn't love it. It took me 2 months and 3 days to read this puppy.
Am I glad I finished? Yes
Will I re-read it some day? No way
The best parts of this book are when characters are doing actual things, and when Dostoyevsky describes Russia and Russian things and "the Russian way". Sometimes he has his characters do this, sometime the narrator. I feel like I learned a lot about Russia after the serfs were emancipated (and about how that emancipation affected everyone). I was shocked to re ...more
I didn't love it. It took me 2 months and 3 days to read this puppy.
Am I glad I finished? Yes
Will I re-read it some day? No way
The best parts of this book are when characters are doing actual things, and when Dostoyevsky describes Russia and Russian things and "the Russian way". Sometimes he has his characters do this, sometime the narrator. I feel like I learned a lot about Russia after the serfs were emancipated (and about how that emancipation affected everyone). I was shocked to re ...more
It's a big, rich book, and it's taken me nearly a year to read it, in between others and only a page or two some nights. It feels like a great book, and there are some outstanding passages in it, but the slowness of my own reading rather diminished the experience - my own fault for forgetting who was who and what had happened two hundred or three hundred pages earlier. Having now read some of the reviews, I'm also aware that perhaps this translation isn't one of the best ones, and so in my next
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Aug 18, 2007
Dianna
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
classic-literature
Jul 19, 2009
Diane
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
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1001,
classics,
philosophy,
1001-done,
abe-100,
russian,
19th-century,
existentialism,
bigger-books,
2015-reads
