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The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.04 AVERAGE

ali_haider_21's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

leaheve's review against another edition

2.0

funny mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ashleigh_k's review against another edition

I guess the moral is that things aren't what they seem and men aren't great? Not sure..

mohazzarde's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

prakhar26's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

cowvboy's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

i originally gave this a 2 star rating. looking back, that was completely unjustified. it was definitely a pain to read, with the myriad of names and (mostly useless) dialogue spanning pages upon pages, but this book was insightful and interesting (to an extent). this was an "idiotic" (hehe) choice for an introduction to dostoevsky's literature, and while it has moderately discouraged me from his body of work, i remain undeterred. the idiot was heartfelt, dramatic, and very quotable (i practically highlighted half the book). therefore, i now upgrade it to 3 stars.

pressedpanini's review against another edition

4.0

Towards the end of the book, the story made me blushed a little. Then unexpectedly it depressed me so. The book started with hopeful optimism to dreadful misfortunes. Was it meant to imply that Christ-like figure really doesn't belong in the earthly world? That no such person could be that Christ-like without being crushed by the world?

But regarding Dostoyevsky's tough moment while writing this book, The Idiot captures sadness, hopelessness and powerlessness so acurately that it made me feel rather 'enraged' up to the last line.

How can someone be so bitter as the author of The Idiot? I couldn't understand.