Oh brother Karamazov, where art thou? The split up of the family Karamazov affected me more than all the philosophizing and high-minded ethical discussion. But that's me. I'm more interested in seeing human nature played out rather than hearing a bunch of people sit around talking about how humans ...
I am not sure what to say of this marvelous novel except to echo the last line: "Hurrah for Karamazov!"Some quotations:"Ah, children, ah, dear friends, don't be afraid of life! How good life is when one does something good and just!""I tell you plainly and openly, dear boy, every decent man ought to...
I have tried to finish this book many times. This is one book I would like to finish to say I did. I fear this book may be marked as "to read" for many more years to come. It is a tough read with dense dialogue...or at least it seemed that way when I first started trying to read this ten years ag...
"Please forgive me a few minutes of gloating over my success at having finished this book. It's been like a millstone around my neck for years now, as I've picked up and put down this book three times now before I finally made it through to the end of the book. It was the only book I have ever put...
This was part of the same class in which I read almost all of War and Peace, which I just finished. Unlike War and Peace, though, I didn't get too far in Brothers Karamazov, and looking back now I don't feel that I remember the book well enough to pick up from where I left off. It wasn't the book's ...
great translators! They've translated everything by Dostoevsky and they are amazing. I started reading this and took my time -- but then had to read stuff for school! So, i only got half way and it's been 2 years. I'll have to start over, but I won't mind at all.
I read this while in high school, with no real context for it (beyond the other Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, etc that I was also reading), so I'm sure I missed huge swathes of it. Nevertheless, I really liked it. I wish he'd edited a bit, though--40 pages for one monologue seems a bit much, particularly...
I'm terribly ashamed of course. I gave it the old college try. I even gave it the graduate school try. I was badgered by my father, but still I couldn't finish it.
Rereading this one now, first time as a believer, and the whole story of the monk, Aloysha's friend and mentor, is riveting to me this time around. I've had a few times in my life when I felt the way it was described that the monk's brother felt before he died, that there's no need for any unhappine...
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