The Idiot
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Is it one of Dostoevsky's weaker novels? Or, is it his best?
I haven't read it
>>7854482
why did you post this
I read it
neither and both desu baka senpai cuck
Haven't read it, OP. Why you asking?
It's mixed. Some of it is near-unbearable, some of it is bretty brillz
1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. Crime and Punishment
3. The Idiot
4. Notes from the Underground
5. The Gambler
6. The Double
Not sure. I read 5 pages of TBK before returning it to the library. Very boring.
Just started part 3 and so far it's good. Not Brothers Karamazov good but good.
>>7854473
I got up to part 2 like 4 years ago and just stopped. It's still lying around somewhere in my home. Should I bother finishing it?
I liked crime and punishment but even with that, the pacing was too slow a lot of the time.
Couldn't get passed the first paragraph.
I haven't read Demons yet, but I'd bet it's the waker of his great novels. It' is too slow, too long to be so uneventful, and the archetype its hero represents is much better represented by Alyosha in TBK, anyway.
>>7854639
"I read less than 1% of a novel and wasn't engaged, must be trash!"
I feel like The Idiot is his best novel, with only Brothers coming close to it. If you can't get interested in Myshkin and his influence on other people then you should drop it because you won't end up liking it, though.
>>7854818
It's because you're thick
> passed
Past.
It's his most character focused novel. That said it has some of the most complicated and interesting characters in any of his books. It's a flawed novel, especially in its episodic format, but it's still very good. It took me a long time to appreciate it, I found I enjoyed it much more later on after I had finished it upon thinking very deeply about it.
>>7854847
Millennial attention span.
>>7854473
The Idiot is quite good. Writing Myshkin first is one reason Alyosha is such a good character.
Fodie Doder only has one weak novel, The Adolescent.
I picked up The Idiot because I thought it was OP's biography
:^)
>>7854473
i gotta friend who reeeally likes it & another friend who thought it was hella boring so idk it's controversial i guess?
What translation is the best except P&V if I'm willing to read Dostoevsky in this >>7854634 order?
It's alright in parts. It's like ninety percent dialogue. I've read it twice and the second time I stopped about 3/4 of the way through because there is so. much. talking. Not a bad book though.
