Los hermanos Karamazov / The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)

from rdm666

This is the greatest book I have ever read, and I've read it about 3 times. Dostoyevsky is the only writer I've seen who can bind very original [as far as I know] philosophical statements to characters successfully, and still have the novel move into unimaginable complexities. This is a murder 'm...

from LisaMaria_C

On the surface this novel could be read as a psychological thriller, family drama, and murder mystery--with enough of a twist to satisfy an Agatha Christie fan. It's rather beside the point though, and the reveal is hardly the climax of the book. This is after all one of the most celebrated works...

from Soultalk

I am a huge Russian literature fan. In my opinion Nabokov, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Tolstoy, and even Solzenitzyn need to bow before the great meloncholic Dostoevsky. This is certainly in my top five novels ever written, and it is so well written and condensed in content that every time i re...

from littlegeek

Reread in 2010. Not as good as Crime & Punishment to my mind. Alyosha is too perfect. Yet he does practically nothing to help Dmitri when he could have, like, maybe gone to Smerdyakov to try to get him to confess, for instance. And Ivan is punished way too much. Most atheists really aren't that t...

from jmchshannon

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...