val_halla 's review for:

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.0

The free Kindle version may be a bad translation, because I felt that sections of this book were poorly written. A lot of the true action happens "off-stage," so poorly written dialogue is difficult to trudge through. Dostoyevsky gives an interesting account of epilepsy at the time, and the main character is well-developed. For those uninterested in epilepsy or Russian culture, however, I wouldn't recommend this book. Dostoyevsky makes some excellent commentary on his contemporary Russian society, but this commentary actually made me feel like hating Russians, which may not be productive.