I had a strange reading experience with this book. I was greatly enjoying it, but it was not coming together as a unified whole for me. I had a similar experience with the Brothers Karamazov and then suddenly about 2/3 of the way through, the book just gelled and I instantly knew that it was going...
Well, I am really glad that I listened to The Idiot on audiobook, because I am absolutely certain that I would not have gotten through this if I had read it! As it was, I had to read the last 50 pages or so, so I am not just speculating here. This book was dense, full of ideas, and philosophies, a...
This book had its moments, but on general, it pains me to say that it was mediocre. Now when I'm thinking about it, some great quotes are coming to my mind, but that's all, and hence the three stars. I am a strong admirer of Dostoyevsky. His The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment took my b...
As you can see below, this review was requested by Tracy Reilly (cheers!) Since this is the case, I find it only fair that I write it as a response to her review.Bear with the typical self-indulgent pre-amble if you will, or if you won’t, skip to the next paragraph. I am about to write my third nove...
This should have been a four actually because I have enjoyed it, but I decided to do something I don't usually do which is read other books in between. So in the end I read this over such a long period of time that I feel my overall enjoyment of it has been tarnished. Lesson to be learnt: I should s...
The title character of The Idiot is Prince Myshkin, a poor Russian nobleman who is returning to Russia after spending several years in a Swiss sanatorium to recover from epilepsy. Alone in the world, he is searching for some distant relatives and gets quickly caught up in a complicated love triangl...
The first thing I didn't expect was to find that Dostoevsky can be rather humorous. The Idiot is both a tragedy and a farce. I'm sure the farce is much more obvious to the 19th century audience it was meant for but still in evidence. However, the heavy themes of this Russian author are never too far...
While I can definitively attest to the fact that The Prince, who the book is named for, is indeed AN IDIOT, I think he can rest easy knowing that he is in good company. Seriously. I think every single personage introduced into the story, whether they only appear briefly or are prominent characters, ...
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