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The Brothers Karamazov
Posted on 4/26/21 at 8:02 pm
Posted on 4/26/21 at 8:02 pm
I’m near the end—Ivan is in his last interview with Smerdyakov. Is there a bigger psychopath in literature than Smerdyakov? His character isn’t even developed that much, but he’s such a pos
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Posted on 4/26/21 at 8:53 pm to AllbyMyRelf
Can you blame him?
BTW, congrats on getting through what I believe is the best novel of all time.
BTW, congrats on getting through what I believe is the best novel of all time.
This post was edited on 4/26/21 at 8:54 pm
Posted on 4/27/21 at 8:39 am to AllbyMyRelf
I’m 100 pages in and it is slow going. Does it pick up soon?
Posted on 4/27/21 at 12:08 pm to MissTiger91
Maybe not soon, but it does pick up 
It’s definitely worth enduring.
It’s definitely worth enduring. Posted on 4/28/21 at 1:52 am to MissTiger91
It's not so much that it picks up as much as draws you in.
There is tension and menace that builds among the characters, but the compelling thing is that presence of evil starts to loom larger than the storyline. Vaguely, but like somewhere in the room over your shoulder instead of on the pages in front of you.
At that point the philosophical exchanges between characters provide a lifeline out to you, but darkly, almost thru a prism. And somehow in the midst of reading it, you come to feel the opaqueness is caused by your current surroundings, not the fact that you are reading a 19th C. Russian book.
Weirdly mesmerizing and rewarding.
There is tension and menace that builds among the characters, but the compelling thing is that presence of evil starts to loom larger than the storyline. Vaguely, but like somewhere in the room over your shoulder instead of on the pages in front of you.
At that point the philosophical exchanges between characters provide a lifeline out to you, but darkly, almost thru a prism. And somehow in the midst of reading it, you come to feel the opaqueness is caused by your current surroundings, not the fact that you are reading a 19th C. Russian book.
Weirdly mesmerizing and rewarding.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 9:01 am to DeCat ODahouse
Nice ekphrasis
Posted on 4/28/21 at 1:44 pm to MissTiger91
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I’m 100 pages in and it is slow going. Does it pick up soon?
Wait til you get to "The Grand Inquisitor" chapter. GOAT.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 2:02 pm to Marciano1
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Wait til you get to "The Grand Inquisitor" chapter. GOAT.
This right here.
Posted on 4/28/21 at 3:57 pm to Marciano1
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Wait til you get to "The Grand Inquisitor" chapter. GOAT
Good to know. I already think it’s a great book, it just doesn’t keep me up at night (yet). I’ll soldier on.
Posted on 5/5/21 at 1:13 pm to MissTiger91
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I’ll soldier on.
That's a perfect term for it. I gutted through that book once. I understand it's importance in literature, but didn't like it.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 4:54 pm to AllbyMyRelf
Finished
Posted on 5/7/21 at 8:32 am to AllbyMyRelf
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Finished
How many stars do you give it?
Posted on 5/7/21 at 8:44 am to AllbyMyRelf
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Finished
Posted on 5/7/21 at 10:07 am to Marciano1
One of the best books I’ve read. The ending wasn’t as satisfying as I had hoped, but I don’t know what I was expecting. Still 5/5 stars
Posted on 5/12/21 at 12:01 am to AllbyMyRelf
My unpopular opinion is that Crime and Punishment is better than The Brothers Karamazov.
Posted on 5/12/21 at 9:05 am to MissTiger91
quote:why do people say that like it’s a bad thing? Someone says this exact thing about every old book
I’m 100 pages in and it is slow going. Does it pick up soon?
Posted on 5/14/21 at 3:45 pm to AllbyMyRelf
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The Brothers Karamazov
I read it pretty young. It (and Crime and Punishment) affected me as few other works of literature or art have. I don't know what it is about Dostoevsky's writing, but those books actually sent me into a little funk for awhile. Something about the way he portrays lives of dissipation maybe.
Posted on 5/15/21 at 4:53 pm to Methuselah
I don't know that there's been an author (or maybe even many psychologists) with such an intuitive grasp of human psychology as Dostoevsky.
Posted on 6/24/21 at 6:42 pm to AUveritas
I felt the same way after reading Winesburg, Ohio
Posted on 7/5/21 at 12:37 pm to AllbyMyRelf
Currently have this on the shelf waiting for me to finish Anna Karenina.
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