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davidst 's review for:
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm not quite sure how to rate this novel. It took a hundred pages or so to really get into it (which isn't much considering this novel is eight times the length), but when I did for a while I loved it. I liked the dialogues about religion, the atheist vs orthodox discussions. This was backed up with an interesting story line about the three brothers and their father. Then I got to the part on the trial and I thought it was way too long, I didn't like the long speeches or basically anything about the trial (including the absurd reactions from the people listening), and for some odd reason the book cut away to a story about a boy which I didn't find interesting at all (it even ends with this boys story which seemed very anticlimactic and disappointing). Anyways the first three parts would probably be a 5/5 from me, and the last part a 2/5 so I'll just rate it a 4/5.