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Братья Карамазовы by Fyodor Dostoevsky

11 reviews

thombus's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Classism

macliffe's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 22%

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Boring as heck. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol

Moderate: Domestic abuse

quotablehedgehog's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Antisemitism, Medical content, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Classism, Deportation

seforaflorian's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

ayphyx's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment

Minor: Cursing

seapotatohowisitalrtaken's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Gun violence

Minor: War

startjpw23's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is about the three Karamazov brothers, their father, and people they interact with. One of the other characters might be a fourth brother. That is never definitively revealed. The book is set around the year 1860 in Russia. There are a couple of women who the two oldest brothers have, or desire to have, romantic relationships with. Their father also desires a romantic relationship with one of the women. Jealously between the father, and Dimitri, the oldest brother about the woman, is a big driver of the story. Another driver of the story is political, religious, and social changes taking place in Russia at that time. Around halfway through the book, there is a leadup to a crime. At this point, and the aftermath of the crime, I found the book a page turner. Toward the end, the story dragged. The book is a very long book. The version I read was 845 pages long. And the pages were very densely packed with words. With the exception of the youngest brother, Alyosha, I didn't find any of the main characters particularly likable. Because of this, I really didn't care that much about what happened to them. The book was beautifully written and translated. A lot of words were used for not all that much happening. I did enjoy book. I am glad I read it. Reading it didn't make me want to read any other classic Russian books any time soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Chronic illness, Sexism, Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Death of parent

caitlynhm's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Murder

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail

abbyreadsbigbooks123's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment

vulturetime's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Antisemitism

Fyodor Karamazov marries a girl who's I believe 16 at the time. I don't quite remember the specifics but her life was miserable with him; there is one character who commits suicide; there is a character who was conceived out of rape.