The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoyevky's masterpiece

[Urban Rubble]

This is one of the best books ever penned. It taught me alot about the world, like Dostoyevky's books always do, and it actually made me cry more than once. If you have not read this, or any of Dostoyevsky's other works, do yourself a favor and pick it up. He is amazing, the best novelist ever.

[SonofRage]

I hated it.

[Urban Rubble]

Ya, my friend didn't like it either. I love it.

[Inti]

I remember that I liked it, but it was a long time since I read it.. I read it during a week when I was in bed due to malaria.. I read and read and read.. Couldnt stop until the book was finished, and it was the last book that I brought from my home before my travel to Moz.. Thinking of borrowing it from the library again..

[SonofRage]

I actually sold my copy, I disliked it so much.

[canikickit]

Originally posted by Urban [email protected] 9 2003, 05:32 AM
...and it actually made me cry more than once.
Ha! Dostoyevky totally owned you!

I've never read any of Dostoyevky's stuuf, but I do intent getting my brother's copy of {insert the name of his most famous one here} when he's done with it.

Urban Rubble, if you haven't read read any Chekov, I recommend him. I don't really know if it's similar at all, but hey, they were both Russian. Chekov wrote very atmospheric and interesting stuff, building tension beautifully. I've only read one book of his short stories.

[Mano Dayak]

I've read the Brothers Karamazov, and I liked it, but if Dostoyevsky, then I clearly prfer Crime and Punishment. I started reading it in Russian now (after having read it in Czech several times) and I'm still impressed (even if it's the sixth or seventh time I'm reading the book).
For Chekhov, in my opinion, he's my favourite Russian writer. Gogol isn't bad either and some Gorki is good from time to time.

[RedAnarchist]

I havent, but i like to read big novels, so i may read it in the future

[Mano Dayak]

You should, and if you'll read Dostoyevsky, do not begin with "The Idiot" (I don't know what its English name is exactly). My first Dostoyevsky book were the Karamazovs, followed by Crime and Punishment.

[RedAnarchist]

I've just borrowed it from my college library

[che's long lost daughter]

The only Dostoyevsky I have ever read is Crime and Punishment...

Has anyone heard of Milan Kundera??? He's a brilliant writer

[Urban Rubble]

Weird, when I started this nobody really replied, now I'm getting all kinds !


Urban Rubble, if you haven't read read any Chekov, I recommend him. I don't really know if it's similar at all, but hey, they were both Russian. Chekov wrote very atmospheric and interesting stuff, building tension beautifully. I've only read one book of his short stories.

Yeah, I was going to read some of his stuff but I haven't yet.


Dostoyevky totally owned you

I know you just said that so you could use the word owned, so I'll ignore it. :lol:

I just crashed on my skateboard, does that mean I have just been "owned" by it ? Fucking internet geeks.

[Mano Dayak]

Originally posted by che's long lost [email protected] 20 2004, 08:54 PM
Has anyone heard of Milan Kundera??? He's a brilliant writer
a fellow countryman of mine (Czech)... seems to be good, I once read through one of his books in a bookshop and plan to buy one in February when I'm going to Prague...

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

Dostoyevsky is an amazing writer, he was doing what Nietzsche and Frued did before it had entered their thoughts. Incorporating such pyschological insights into a novel is no easy task.

He is a legend and should be appreciated.

Read Notes from Underground, its exitensial to the core but beautiful.

[Mano Dayak]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2004, 08:47 PM
He is a legend and should be appreciated.

No doubt, but do you all know that he was anti-socialist (that's what I've read in my "Crime and Punishment" foreword)?

[Pedro Alonso Lopez]

Who wrote the foreword?

He was a nihilist so he was anti-everything.

Anyway it dosen't matter, poets, artists and writers are generally non-political and even if they are unless its required any political context should be ignored.

I'd never let politics get in the way of literature.

[Urban Rubble]

No doubt, but do you all know that he was anti-socialist (that's what I've read in my "Crime and Punishment" foreword)?

I think he may have belonged to a Socialist group as a youngster, I seem to think he was even imprisoned because of it for awhile. Then he later became against it. Although I could be confusing him with someone else.

He was a Christian though, so that tells you something. I had never heard he was a Nihilist.

[EneME]

Haven't read that one but I did read Crime and Punishment....awesome book but extremely depressing, but i love depressing shit so...

[Mano Dayak]

Originally posted by Urban [email protected] 23 2004, 04:48 AM

No doubt, but do you all know that he was anti-socialist (that's what I've read in my "Crime and Punishment" foreword)?

I think he may have belonged to a Socialist group as a youngster, I seem to think he was even imprisoned because of it for awhile.
Yes, and even sentenced to death and imprisoned in Siberia.


The writer of the foreword is a Russian guy (I forgot the name).