Reviews

The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky

itsdeiu's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

fr_eddie's review against another edition

3.0

3,5 Goljadkin te sei pazzo ma ti si vuole bene lo stesso

minkkmuse's review against another edition

funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

 funny, absurd, haunting 

meaghanjohns's review against another edition

1.0

The themes explored in this book are interesting, but the experience of reading it was so poor that I had to switch to an audiobook partway through or risk not finishing. Thank you to narrator Stefan Rudnicki for getting me through.

m3t4m0rph0sis's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

deni23's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

kathryn_mcb's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.5

The protagonist and narrators repetition of people’s names at the end of most sentences drove me wiiiiiiild. Despite being a short novel it could have been shorter and still had impact 

tomedling's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

muskanp33's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book might have an unsatisfactory ending to some because of the lack of clarity in the early works of Dostoyevsky, however, the book extracts all the things a good book should: self-awareness, introspection, and empathy. You will often feel bad for Golyadkin, and then want to shut the book and hide when you experience some embarrassing error he has committed. You do feel bad for him, and somewhere in the middle of the book question how real Golyadkin’s reality can be. How crazed would we feel if one morning we awoke and met with our double? The suggestion that interprets the doppelgänger as a figment of imagination makes much more sense towards the end and resolves the issue to an extent. However, the ending still leaves much to be wanted.

atinymarika's review against another edition

challenging tense slow-paced

4.0