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It's good but it could have been half the length. It just doesn't END.

>> No.18151225

>>18151204
t. smerdyakov

>> No.18151249

>>18151225
t. Lizaveta

>> No.18151255

>>18151249
touché

>> No.18151268

>>18151204
Someone on /lit/ told me that Dosto got paid by the word. Explains things a bit if true.

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18151278

i thought so too as a young fella but when I re-read it 10 years later it didn't feel too long at all

>> No.18151282

>>18151268
This was always his writing style though. Even his earlier works are this way. He does it to create the sense of a real time flow.

>> No.18151298

>>18151204
I read it in 3 days, couldn't put it down.

>> No.18151322

>>18151298
Why? Nothing really happens for the first 300 pages.

>> No.18151325

>>18151278
Based take. First time i read it i skipped about half of the trial and didn't miss too much.
There are no wasted books in it though, and every chapter (or nearly every chapter) is necessary.

>> No.18151361

>>18151322
I loved the backstories and that the caracters were very defined.
It's definetely the characters for me. The archetypes? Their histrionics? The relationships with each other? Zosima's youth? The schoolboys story?
Something clicks.
Would read it again.

>> No.18151365

I'm like 400 pages into The Idiot and nothing has happened either

Should I finish it? Theres like 400 more pages to go.

>> No.18151437

Does it have random dialogues in French like Demons?

>> No.18151480

>>18151268
Yes. This was true of all commercial writers back then. Tolstoy too.

>> No.18151489

When I read it 10 years ago I never wanted it to end

>> No.18151499

>>18151204
itt: adhd retards
take your time and think over each chapter as you read it, my god

>> No.18151513

>>18151361
The Father Zosima story and the grand inquisitor are unspeakably good. Been a while, I'm tempted to re-read after I finish my current book

>> No.18151537

>>18151365
No, it's normal. Apparently, we're the real Idiots for buying this book.

>> No.18151545

>>18151282
>He does it to create the sense of a real time flow.
But then there's plenty of timeskips in his writing so how does that work?

>> No.18151557

>>18151499
>if you think this book is too slow spend some extra time thinking about it so it takes twice as long
I thought it was ok in length (except for that mass chapter of Zosima's monologues fuck that) but that's a weird suggestion Anon.

>> No.18151794

>>18151437
not to the same extent

>> No.18151819

>>18151557
Yeah zosima was the only part that dragged for me. You dont have much time dude just spit it out already.

>> No.18151906

it's good but not for me. not a christian and not interested in spirituality, or at least this kind, so it never really hooked me.

>> No.18151964

>>18151204
so true. dmitri's hundred page meltdown and the lawyer's endless tl;dr speech are such slogs. whole subplot with kids should have been cut for irrelevance. never pay an author by the word

>> No.18152175

>>18151964
you're right, if only an irrelevant and unimportant anon whose opinions nobody gives a shit about like you could have edited brothers karamazov before it came out, I am sure it would have turned out much better than the current version

>> No.18152192

>>18152175
It definitely would have, sadly we're left with about 300 pages too much material, severely retarding an otherwise genius work.

>> No.18152507

>>18152175
Don't be mean

>> No.18153387

>>18151480
Yeah that makes a lot of sense. I’m 2 thirds through Anna Karenina and it just won’t fucking end so I’m reading other stuff too. Good book though.