Reviews - Братья Карамазовы

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Братья Карамазовы

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.31 AVERAGE

tywhiplashing's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

aysreads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

readingwithmaars's review against another edition

4.25

IM FREE

lorenzovonmatterhorn's review against another edition

5.0

this is the best book ever written and i will never stop thinking about it.

"There's nothing more alluring to people than freedom of conscience, but there's also no greater suffering."

arievw's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense 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

kitaabworm's review against another edition

5.0

Being a Karamazov = pridefully saying you’re a hedonist and blaming it on your blood in order to be quirky

Page 43, everyone has gone through this phase at some point in their lives. Fortunately for most while they were still children; unfortunately for others much later when it is never really forgotten by others

The way Fyodor gaslights is triggering because of how much it resembles real life

Chapter 6 was intense, the readers are equivalent to the hieromonks witnessing the entire thing happen

Smerdyakov is that kid who eats worms during recess (after reading further, I take this back, he’s a pretty good guy) (after reading ever further, I take the second statement back, Smerdyakov can shrivel up and burn)

Ivan is either being pretentious or he is genuinely a weirdo (Book 5, Chapter 4)

Dmitri’s slip from sanity was so beautifully written that reading it makes it feel like the reader is going down the slide right behind him

Women like Madame Khokhlakov really are the worst. Just shut upppppp PLEASE (Book 11, Chapter 2)

With a bitterly crushed heart: HURRAH FOR KARAMAZOV

frogperson10's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

After nearly a year, I finally have read Brothers Karamazov. This is a book I started once and abandoned, until I ultimately came back. I am always a fan of Dostoyevsky, but I wish this one held my interest more constitently. There were portions of this book that did, indeed, feel compulsively readable; at other times--particularly towards the end--I was struggling to engage with Dosto's meticulous prose. I wanted more from the trial scenes, which ended up feeling tedious--but this may be a consequence of my own exhaustion. I enjoyed the middle segments of BK immensely; I struggled with the ending. There are points of this book where I felt like I connected deeply with the philsophy, which I valued. For what is considered F.D.' s "magnum opus," I think I liked Crime and Punishment more. It's always worthwhile to read a Dostoyevsky novel, but I think this one fell short of my feverish love for C&P.