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4.04 AVERAGE
4.04 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
Autistic man by the name of JESUS CHRIST
challenging
slow-paced
What a soap opera! That is truly the best way to describe this novel. I really had hoped for a happy ending but it's Doestoevsky so I should know better. This book wasn't as good as "Crime and Punishment" but I still enjoyed it. Oh, Nastasia is the only character ending I was satisfied with. She had it coming!
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I am not liking Nastasia Philipovna at this point. Hussy indeed!
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I am not liking Nastasia Philipovna at this point. Hussy indeed!
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i mostly read this bc of what donna tartt had to say about it in the goldfinch:
“What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way is the right way?”
but this is a decidedly less hopeful read than tartt’s spin on it. it’s solid and surprisingly readable, but i found it less fulfilling than dostoevsky’s later works. it was fun to see him approach some topics that he would develop much more completely in demons and bk
i think my favorite thing about dostoevsky is the doubt that pervades everything he writes - i think he uses his characters to voice his beliefs, political, psychological, and religious, that are completely at odds with each other.
“What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way is the right way?”
but this is a decidedly less hopeful read than tartt’s spin on it. it’s solid and surprisingly readable, but i found it less fulfilling than dostoevsky’s later works. it was fun to see him approach some topics that he would develop much more completely in demons and bk
i think my favorite thing about dostoevsky is the doubt that pervades everything he writes - i think he uses his characters to voice his beliefs, political, psychological, and religious, that are completely at odds with each other.
I'm not technically finished. I'm just not enjoying this, and there are other things I'd rather read, so I'm calling it for now. I'll probably come back to it at some point, since I own it, but now is not the time.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No