Board index › Topical Discussion › Art, Writing, and Music

The Brothers Karamazov

Page 1 of 1 [ 8 posts ] 

Previous topic | Next topic

jmnixon95
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Dec 2009
Gender: Female
Posts: 20,931
Location: 미국

05 Feb 2011, 1:46 pm

Have any of you read The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky?



Sallamandrina
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,590

05 Feb 2011, 2:25 pm

Yes, I've read it for the first time when I was your age :). Re-read it several times since than and it's one of my favourite books.


_________________
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live" (Oscar Wilde)


Bloodheart
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,194
Location: Newcastle, England.

05 Feb 2011, 2:42 pm

Yeah, it was one of the first books I read when I started reading fiction, my religious studies/philosophy teacher recomended it.


_________________
Bloodheart

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.


Grete
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 2 Feb 2011
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,124

05 Feb 2011, 2:52 pm

I have and liked it. Dostoyevsky is one of my favourite writers.



jmnixon95
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Dec 2009
Gender: Female
Posts: 20,931
Location: 미국

05 Feb 2011, 2:54 pm

I have owned it for a couple of years now, but I've just not gotten around to reading it. I'm on my "philosophical novel" streak, so I might as well start now.



jmnixon95
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Dec 2009
Gender: Female
Posts: 20,931
Location: 미국

05 Feb 2011, 6:28 pm

Time to start now...



Kraichgauer
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 12 Apr 2010
Gender: Male
Posts: 49,241
Location: Spokane area, Washington state.

07 Feb 2011, 2:09 am

My daughter's Godfather is absolutely enthralled by the book.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



PJW
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl

User avatar

Joined: 10 Feb 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 141

11 Feb 2011, 10:33 pm

Yes and loved it. Dostoyevsky's second-greatest novel and easily, therefore, the second greatest novel of all time - after Crime and Punishment.

Takes some time to sink in, both for its length - 400,000 words - and in the depth of the philosophy and religiosity involved.

Enjoy it. I know I did. Probably the best religious novel ever penned. It beats Stranger In a Strange Land for its being written in the 1880's.