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    <body><![CDATA[I only read 4 of the short stories here.  Half the book is taken up by &quot;Notes from the Underground&quot; which was one of my favorite novellas in college, and I even made a mixtape adaptation starring Notorious B.I.G., Lil Kim, Curtis Mayfield, and Nancy Sinatra.  So I'm not reviewing that stor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58642686">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up purely to read &quot;White Nights.&quot; I had recently seen &quot;Saawariya,&quot; a Bollywood film inspired by the story, which was pretty but lifeless. The story is just as dreamy as the movie, but what the movie lacked was the story's strong focus on what makes the main characte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10221451">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[White Nights: 4/5<br/>This was written before his prison term. It's a love story. Enjoyable but nothing special.<br/><br/>The Honest Thief: 3/5<br/>It was good but nothing great either. Sometimes a little draggy.<br/><br/>The Christmas Tree and the Wedding: 4/5<br/>I quite like this one. It i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53194512">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA['The Peasant Marey' is Dostoyevsky's recollection of a spring day when he was in prison in Siberia.  On this day he remembers a peasant from his youth that did something very simple and kind for him.  The memory gives him comfort in his torment.  This is a very special story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think my liver is diseased (&quot;Notes from Underground&quot;)--my favorite short story was &quot;The Dream of a Ridiculous Man&quot;--this for me sums up Dostoevsky's worldview; however, Brothers Karamazov must be read to explore that entirely]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When i read the story Christmas Tree and The Wedding; I just fell into reverie for an hour... how can someone write such splendid, sterling, supreme a story. Before reading that story I actually didn't know that such a writer could possibly exist in the world. This is one great book; just read it.. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3149992">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Like the last reviewer i also bought this book to read White Nights, my previous edition had been lost.  What I like most about this collection is that we can read a wide range of Dostoevsky's styles.  From the light, airy style of White Nights to the harsher tone in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17876.Notes_From_Underground" title="Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky">Notes from Underground</a>, we truly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31793504">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was due back to the library before I was finished all of the stories, but I was impressed with what I did have the chance to read.  Dostoevsky's novels will definitely be a challenge for me to read so it was nice to start in with a sampler or his shorter works.  I don't have any sort of backgroun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/769051">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I prefer Dostoevsky's shorter stories (although I haven't read Crime and Punishment).<br/><br/>My favorite story in this collection is &quot;The Christmas Tree and a Wedding.&quot;  <br/><br/>&quot;Notes from the Underground&quot; is frustrating but good.<br/><br/>If you don't care to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15724613">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Several great stories including 'Notes from the Underground' which kind of messed me up after reading it much the same way that 'Crime and Punishment' did.  'White Nights' &amp; 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man' stick in my mind as other favorites.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book to read the story &quot;notes from the underground&quot; which is credited with being one of the best examples of existentialism out there. But I lacked the intelligence to fully comprehend the story. I will definately try again. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Notes From the Underground is in the top five of all time. For this is real life, the song from under the floorboards. This collection also includes Dream of a Ridiculous Man, brilliant! ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The series of these short stories form a catina like linkage to his longer narrative stories. They support as window to the storyies behind the narrative of his more famous novels. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So far I absolutely love this man's ability to tell a story and completely involve me, the reader, in it - not surprising that he was a master writer...]]></body>
    
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