false 853659 35 male Orlando, FL 01/2008 12/2009 www.nuribilgeceylan.com)]]> 3356 Fyodor Dostoevsky 13450 Gabriel García Márquez 3299 Salman Rushdie 679203 William Gerald Golding 23 106 96 true 5632191 read 1 true 1731286 currently-reading 9 true 1731285 to-read The Double & The Gambler (Paperback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47514852 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237982349s/5698.jpg 853659 raskolnik http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207065811p2/853659.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/853659-raskolnik Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:36:46 -0800 The Double is Dostoevsky's most enigmatic work. If you've read Gogol's Petersburg works, it's easy to see the correlation. Unfortunately, D was also heavily influenced by the critical acclaim he received for his first work Poor Folk, when he wrote this – in most opinions his least readable novel. ...more...]]> Crime and Punishment (Paperback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49651316 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237385655s/28348.jpg 853659 raskolnik http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207065811p2/853659.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/853659-raskolnik Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:39:06 -0800 Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov may appear to be mad, but his fant...more...]]> Notes from Underground (Paperback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49645287 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237381072s/49455.jpg 853659 raskolnik http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207065811p2/853659.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/853659-raskolnik Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:38:25 -0800 more...]]> Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Feodor M. Dostoevsky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48437009 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236369632s/6318230.jpg 853659 raskolnik http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207065811p2/853659.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/853659-raskolnik Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:43:51 -0800 Winter Notes on Summer Impressions was published in Vremya after Dostoevsky's first visit to Europe. I love it for its style and wit. Dostoevsky always had something in common with Voltaire, and it's most evident here. Through somewhat broad generalizations, the reader can sense an intuitive foresha...more...]]> The House of the Dead and Poor Folk (Paperback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48090051 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172522661s/184405.jpg 853659 raskolnik http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207065811p2/853659.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/853659-raskolnik Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:03:56 -0800 The House of the Dead is the journalistic style. You don't see much of it from Dostoevsky, though I am looking forward to his Writer's Diary that I recently purchased. The succession of the plot is told, not by dated entries, but by topic – ie, "The Bathhouse,"...more...]]> The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49781228 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237486888s/6342678.jpg 853659 raskolnik http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207065811p2/853659.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/853659-raskolnik Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:22:34 -0800
The first scenes remind me of White Night...more...]]> Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Selected Works: My Uncle's Dream and Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants by Fyodor Dostoevsky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48220150 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236192087s/6313898.jpg 853659 raskolnik http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207065811p2/853659.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/853659-raskolnik Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:23:47 -0800 My Uncle's Dream is a somewhat comic small-town society tale. It satirizes Petersburg society with an emphasis on the evils of gossip. The narration is a little hazy, per usual for Dostoevsky's rushed style, and leaves the reader fairly without a hero. However, Dostoevsky's character diversity final...more...]]> Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48119652 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236106986s/6309889.jpg 853659 raskolnik http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1207065811p2/853659.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/853659-raskolnik Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:57:57 -0700 The Love of The Last Tycoon, it can be heart-rending to read an unfinished book. I feel satisfied though, as Netotchka concludes, however abruptly, at a reasonable stage in the main character's growth. Dostoevsky had plans to write a large novel with Netotchka's childhood and adol...more...]]>