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    <body><![CDATA[Dostoevsky's quasi-autobiographical account of a man sentenced to penal servitude in Siberia. Any description of the book mentions that Dostoevsky himself as actually brought in front of the firing squad and blindfolded before he was sent directly to the prison camp (Dostoevsky went for political re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36299525">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Started reading this last night and am thrilled about stumbling upon a Dostoevsky that I actually feel like reading (other than <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17876.Notes_From_Underground" title="Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky">Notes from Underground</a>, which I adore). <br/><br/>He was sentenced to prison after having a death sentenced commuted. The book itself is written under the guise of findin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19511245">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I became interested in reading Memoirs after a recent trip to San Francisco, during which I had the pleasure of touring Alcatraz, the most infamous prison in the US.  The desolation of its abandoned corridors and my mental image of the horror of life within its decrepit walls led me to pull Dostoevs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10471821">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In reality my rating is 3.5 at the very least. Dostoeevsky refuses to let his customary bombastic writing style run away with him in this book. The detail of the life of prisoners in Siberia is lavish and, obviously real (after all, the author spent 4 years in prison) and for the most part is novel ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63690181">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's Dostoevsky, so I was destined to love it.  <br/>It's also a book about prison life so yeah, I was destined to be intrigued.  So, my review isn't worth a dime for anybody else.  <br/>It is a little dry, but he is so fascinated by what he experiences so I am fascinated by his fascination.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Apparently not really considered one of Dostoevsky's major works but it's a pretty fascinating insight into the 19th century Russian penal system.  I always want to put people in the &quot;special category.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty bleak but very good.  This was the first dostoyesky book i read, being able to so readily imagine a siberian prison in the eighteen hundreds proved to me it was amazingly well written.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dostoevsky's first book once out of the Siberian prison camp. Veiled as a novel it is his ramblings on being incarcerated. Timid to write a first person account for fear of retaliation and being thrown back to the camp, Dostoevsky writes about his fellow prison mates, the peasants and the noblemen, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9427601">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read House of the Dead ten years ago and it's impression has lasted as one of my all time favourites. It delves in to themes that most of us today can't appreciate along with a depth of perception about the time it was written.  FD most beautifully captures the misery of prison but also the unexpe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3968937">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Please mentally add a half star to my rating.  Skipped Poor Folks because I couldn't find it and began my travail of reading all of FD's novels with this one.  As can be imagined, it had similarities with Ivan Denysovic (but covered 10 years instead of one day) and Kolyma Tales (although FD seemed t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3784080">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was not ruined for me by recently attending the Janacek opera version at the Met. Seems to be a lot more about class than love compared to the opera.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[so far, so sad! I am not sure I will finish it, it brings such grief into my heart! however, great work!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[after The Idiot this was light entertainment which i read gratitude that he still had works i hadn't read...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dostoevsky was my Dad's favorite author, which is why I picked this up.  Now I know why.  Awesome classic.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A great portrait of the gulag, as seen by Dostoyevsky when he was sent to Siberia.  ]]></body>
    
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