September Books 18) The Brothers Karamazov

[nwhyte]

18) The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Finally shamed into reading this by this meme, though it was also part of my 2006 reading resolutionsAm I unusual in finding the grand sweeping philosophical monologues about the nature of God and Man very skimmable? Apart from the tendency of the characters to go into long diatribes reinforcing how

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[inulro]

It's been a long time since I read Brothers Karamazov, but that's pretty much how I recall feeling at the end. And I love Dostoevsky, I really do, but that was a bit much for me.

Your unread books

[inulro]

Congratulations on actually having more unread books than I do; next time my partner gives me a hard time about the state of the to-read pile I might point him at that list.

I have or have read quite a few things on that list. I can heartily recommend Sailing to Sarantium and No Great Mischief as good books that take next to no time to read.