Fyodor Dostoevsky

Post Number:**#16** by **imhopref** » 06 May 2008, 12:23

Crime & Punishment is a great book, but, honestly, it should be better read in original - I've read it in English and Russian, and must say it lost a lot in translation.

Post Number:**#17** by **Belenus** » 14 Jun 2008, 17:45

sweetos wrote:i just finished dostoevsky's book, "the idiot". it's amazing. it's just disappointing that not a lot of people have read this book. and it's even less popular than dostoevsky's other work, "crime and punishment". i haven't read that one but i'm sure that if people recognize c&p as one of the best classics, the idiot should receive the same recognition.

I agree with you about "the idiot" and extend it to include "the gambler" as well.

Post Number:**#18** by **blue_diamond21** » 15 Jun 2008, 09:55

I've jsut finished part I and am really looking forward to finishing the book. I'll also be picking up his others now they've been so greatly recommended

Post Number:**#19** by **Amy** » 01 Jul 2008, 11:13

Hi!

Wow you are so lucky to be reading Crime and Punishment at the moment. I absolutely fell in love with that book. I loved the monologue style and the exploration of the protagonist's psychological state.

where are you in it now?

Post Number:**#20** by **blue_diamond21** » 02 Jul 2008, 05:07

Still at the end of part 1 :oops:

I get very easily distracted and have read about 3 other books since finishing the first part! I just bought The Kite Runner but have left it at my other half's house so I can finish Crime and Punishment!

Post Number:**#21** by **Brenna Erin** » 30 Jul 2008, 02:25

Dostoevsky creeps me out a little bit. I've done Crime and Punishment, and the Brothers Karamazov. He worries me a little, because I get so twisted up in everything, my head goes in circles, and I'm not sure whether or not the murderer is guilty anymore. Or, if I believe he's guilty, I don't want him to be punished, because I feel bad for him.

That's why Dostoevsky's writing is famous: these days, it takes an "amazing" writer to get their readers to side with the protagonist and hate the antagonist. Dostoevsky makes me like the antagonist. These days, he'd make a great lawyer or politician. Does my head in, but i love it.

Post Number:**#22** by **LawnTamer** » 06 Sep 2008, 06:16

KaeMartyndale wrote:I just finished his short story "The Little Orphan". It was well written, but incredibly depressing. But, that's his thing, right?

I don't think that is his thing. I haven't read all his works, but I have read the Brothers Karamazov and C&P and am reading The Idiot. I think his novels speak to me of hope and redemption. Look at C&P, an Axe Murderer is the main character, and he eventually finds... perhaps not redemption, but hope. I think the scene where he kneels before Dunya is one of the most moving in literature. Dunya is a prostitute, yet she is free of moral offense, she has retained her innocence, this instills guilt, but also hope in Raskolnikov.

I love the Brothers K. Alyosha (Alexi)is certainly one of the greatest characters ever. As I read, I realized that Alyosha could have been like either of his brothers. He has had the same doubts as his brother Ivan concerning the justice of God and life. He has fought the same passions that rule and destroy Dimitri. Yet, he becomes someone totally different. He has reason to doubt, passion to battle, yet he becomes who he wants to become, exercising hope and faith in the face of controversy.

When Dostoevsky was in a prison camp in Siberia, he had only a Bible. With a mind as voracious as his, he must have devoured it. I think hope and faith ring through in his writing.

So, what say ye?

Post Number:**#23** by **blueangel** » 11 Sep 2008, 20:02

I have Dostoevsky's crime and punishment but i haven't read it yet because of my pending books to read.

Post Number:**#24** by **david paul** » 12 Sep 2008, 09:05

Crime and Punishment was my first Dos. read. I found it engrossing. I then, years later, read Brothers Karamazof (sp?). I found it even better!!!
Then, with such a great feeling about Dos. I turned to Notes from Underground. Yuck!!! I did not like this little book at all. It was depressing and unredeeming i felt. So, I have taken a holiday from Dos. for a while.

Post Number:**#25** by **j2page1** » 12 Sep 2008, 10:14

I read Dostoevsky's "Notes from the Underground" a few years ago and I liked the darker undertones of the book and the anti-hero protagonist.

I've always wanted to pick up C&P because I've heard such amazing things about it.

Post Number:**#26** by **Dori** » 13 Dec 2008, 01:36

LawnTamer wrote:I don't think that is his thing. I haven't read all his works, but I have read the Brothers Karamazov and C&P and am reading The Idiot. I think his novels speak to me of hope and redemption. Look at C&P, an Axe Murderer is the main character, and he eventually finds... perhaps not redemption, but hope. I think the scene where he kneels before Dunya is one of the most moving in literature. Dunya is a prostitute, yet she is free of moral offense, she has retained her innocence, this instills guilt, but also hope in Raskolnikov.

I'm pretty sure it was Sonya who was the harlot, not Dunya (Rodya's sister).

Post Number:**#27** by **flashgordon** » 13 Dec 2008, 15:02

Boy, I need to go back and re-read this book. It was/is one of my all-time favorites, but it has been too long...

Post Number:**#28** by **sharon.gmc** » 06 Jan 2009, 00:48

I read it once and I want to read it again. Preferably in a quite place and when I am not always in a hurry.

Post Number:**#29** by **TeddyP** » 10 Feb 2009, 10:40

Crime and Punishment is my favourite book ever I think. It took me ages to get used to all the Russian names, but after that it was completely engrossing.

Post Number:**#30** by **Pigs on the Wing** » 15 May 2011, 13:03

I'm going to pick up a copy of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot soon, cannot wait to read them!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Re: my 1st post. hehe...

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