Just about to finish up, it was an interesting read - made a lot more chilling because it isn't a total fiction. But I spent a lot of time wondering how many of the scenes were pure speculation.
Bought this at the same time (love the penguin classics series), so I'm about to jump into it.
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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
oh no i enjoyed Diary of a Madman quite a bit, it was wonderful. Dead Souls was just something i couldn't latch onto -- insurpassably boring, very predictable and not many themes worth considering. i've read Dostoevsky before so i'm very familiar with his style of prose, i've been told The Brothers Karamazov is his best work.
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I liked Crime and Punishment much more than The Brothers Karamazov, which was a pretty arduous read in several sections, when it diverges from the plot to explore theology. I appreciate that this was a central theme of the book, but it just seemed so heavy handed in sections.
And I thought the setting was so much more vividly realised in Crime and Punishment.