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A review by cyberloop
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
challenging
dark
funny
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
this was sooooo crazy like unbelievably crazy… a book about the human condition !
definitely slow at the start was expecting the parricide to happen quick like first 100 pages like the murder in crime and punishment does but theres so much buildup but it all makes sense at the end. also very funny book no one mentions that but i did have a few laughs. the suspense and tension right up to and after the murder is crazy thoughlike you know whats coming to him as he picks up the pestle and then walks around with blood on his hands but you cant do anything but you know he is dooming himself even more right then and there!!!! and you believed mitya didnt kill his father but you know his time free is coming to an end….
and the next 200 or so pages you’re thinking no its not mitya it can’t be but it all seems to keep piling up against him again and again and just when you are finally about to give into your doubt you are told you were right all along!!!
not joking i was reading this on the bus to work in the morning and i legitimately stopped three paragraphs beforesmerdyakov admits to the murder LOL imagine my surprise when i got back on the bus home and started reading again. that being said the last idk 200 pages were like walking into an electric fence repeatedly i was thinking stop the madness pleaseeee pleasee it was like smerdyakov admits to the murder BZZZT thenivan goes berserk BZZZZZT ivan hallucinates and talks to the devil BZZZZZZZZZT SMERDYAKOV KILLS HIMSELF AFTER CONFESSING BZZZZZZZT ivan has brain fever and gives the stupidest testimony ever BZZT and then katerina goes berserk too and recants her good testimony in favour of one than damns dmitri because she wants ivan to be spared BZZZZZZZZZZT and then i die from all the electric shocks AND THEN HE’S CONVICTED!!!!!!! you know what i mean of course (<- guy who is writing this review for one person only)
the real dilemma here is what happens to ivan. does he recover or not. how does he live with himself because he said he was going to chermasnya but then he doesnt actually go to chermasnya but its too late its all too late. AND HE KNOWS!!! i stand by my interpretation i think ivan knew and did nothing and he knows this and this is why he goes crazy…i would too tbh
i did really like that both ivan and dmitri (and raskolnikov from crime and punishment) have the same gnawing issue with the world: why is there needless suffering? why do we let it happen? and the unsatisfactory answer from the world is that we are asking a stupid question. but how do you live in the world without an answer to this!!!! and dmitri and ivan’s worldviews are shaped by finding an answer to this question!!! (but they come to two different conclusions hence their standings by the end of the book). just so crazyy
definitely slow at the start was expecting the parricide to happen quick like first 100 pages like the murder in crime and punishment does but theres so much buildup but it all makes sense at the end. also very funny book no one mentions that but i did have a few laughs. the suspense and tension right up to and after the murder is crazy though
and the next 200 or so pages you’re thinking no its not mitya it can’t be but it all seems to keep piling up against him again and again and just when you are finally about to give into your doubt you are told you were right all along!!!
not joking i was reading this on the bus to work in the morning and i legitimately stopped three paragraphs before
the real dilemma here is what happens to ivan. does he recover or not. how does he live with himself because he said he was going to chermasnya but then he doesnt actually go to chermasnya but its too late its all too late. AND HE KNOWS!!! i stand by my interpretation i think ivan knew and did nothing and he knows this and this is why he goes crazy…i would too tbh
i did really like that both ivan and dmitri (and raskolnikov from crime and punishment) have the same gnawing issue with the world: why is there needless suffering? why do we let it happen? and the unsatisfactory answer from the world is that we are asking a stupid question. but how do you live in the world without an answer to this!!!! and dmitri and ivan’s worldviews are shaped by finding an answer to this question!!! (but they come to two different conclusions hence their standings by the end of the book). just so crazyy