Julie's review
The Gambler (Modern Library Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Julie's review
The Gambler (Modern Library Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Julie's review
rating:
recommended for: Mark
I listened to this book on audiobook, and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get into it. But I totally did, and I started looking for opportunities to listen to it, and I looked forward to driving and running. A fascinating and hilarious book, made even more interesting by the circumstances under which it was written. Basically, he had a crazy deadline to meet--if he didn't, then the bookseller would own all the rights to everything he'd already written, and everything he would write over the next nine years. But he was writing crime and punishment in the meantime. Anyway, he hired a stenographer and finished this book in a month to meet the deadline. Then he married the stenographer.
