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[Update 7/08/2013: I guess this review deserves a preface. Before you read it keep in mind that this book nearly made me stop reading novels because I felt that after this nothing will ever reach up to its level. Now I know there are longer novels and maybe better manageable novels, and this book isn't my all-time favorite ([book:Invisible Man|16981]) but this book is just special. After about two months I started picking up comic books and graphic novels to get me back in the habit of reading a
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Patience, concentration, and time to spare are prerequisites to reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I have two of the three. I was overwhelmed by the details of this novel and maybe in the future I will be able to read this "classic" without getting lost in the details. I'm sure I would like the story even more if that were the case. Simply put, this is a literature soap opera with love triangles, financial ruins, and social/political/religious co ...more
Patience, concentration, and time to spare are prerequisites to reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I have two of the three. I was overwhelmed by the details of this novel and maybe in the future I will be able to read this "classic" without getting lost in the details. I'm sure I would like the story even more if that were the case. Simply put, this is a literature soap opera with love triangles, financial ruins, and social/political/religious co ...more

Tried. Tried three times. Couldn't do it.
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