cnnr876 's review for:

The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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my biggest project book of 2025 thus far. enrapturing and engrossing. on the whole, surprised at how fluently and easy to read it was (at least on the level of the sentence), but it is incredibly dense, verbose, and low-in-plot. i completely understand how this is an "important book". it felt like a perfect snapshot of that exact time in russian society. excited to read more dostoevsky!