beltonpham 's review for:

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.0

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to start, lemme say that I really really wish I liked this book more than I did. I had extremely high expectations for this book bc i absolutely adored crime and punishment and sadly this book didn't necessarily meet those expectations. but that also doesn't mean that this book was bad. I found it to be extremely interesting, and Dostoevsky's depiction of humans and human nature is absolutely top tier and unmatched. I loved the characters in this book. I loved how insane and demented the characters are. I love how innocent and pure Myshkin is and how he's an absolute idiot bc of it. but I will say that the book started out strong, the middle was a bit iffy, and the ending was great. when I was in the middle of this book I really did not wanna finish it bc I had no motivation to finish it. but nonetheless I finished it and I'm glad I did. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be reading this book again in the future bc I wanna see if I'll like it even more in the future maybe. anyways I would've liked to see more of Nastasya bc she is such an interesting character and honestly I didn't really care for most of the characters in this book tbh. I'm just really glad I'm finally done with this book lmao. idk I think that I didn't like this book as much bc I kept comparing it to crime and punishment in my head and crime and punishment is top tier for me so. anyways I think Dostoevsky is an absolutely brilliant writer and he's one of my favorites this book just didn't really hit for me for some reason idk why. anyways that's my two cents. good book, but crime and punishment was better.