Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov

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I found Book 1 easy reading, Book 2 a bit of a slog, but so far Book 3 is getting more interesting. I think finally FD has set the scene and characters and the story is starting to develop. Can't wait for someone to bump off Fyodor!

I just finished book 3 also and feel totally drawn into the story. The characters are all something else!
--BJ

I was going to read this first but my amazon order went to my Texas address instead of my Colorado address so I have to wait till a friend brings it to me from TX. But I'll definitely come back once I get it. :)

Well, I did get a little bogged down in the middle during all the psychological parts that I guess are the more famous parts of the book, but I ended up loving the book and enjoyed the race to the end. I thought that it had some interesting discussions of Christianity, atheism, psychology, morality, and ethics. And, of course, I loved the court room scenes. I am so glad that I read my first Dostoevsky!
--BJ

Hello --- I started Part I of Brothers Karamazov, is anyone else currently reading this book? I found a recorded Berkeley lecture series that included 11 class lectures on this book - the Professor states that this is the best book ever written! He might be right, so Ill give this book the time and attention it deserves over the next five or six weeks.

Phil 7 - Existentialism in Literature and Film, Instructor Hubert Dreyfus
Berkeley - Brothers Karamazov lectures
There is two lectures per part and a conclusion.

I am reading along with the lectures - one Part per week. Does anyone want to join me? The first lecture was fabulous - read at least the first 50 pages before listening to the first lecture.

>6 rosemeria: Rose, I am reading Brothers Karamazov in the Pevear translation. Was diverted by the post-Ulysses post-prandial, but will devote the weekend to getting back in gear with Pevear. Those lectures look great!

>7 WilfGehlen: WilfGehlen,
Enjoyed your Ulysses review. Like Ulysses the Brothers Karamazov has unforgettable characters. I am in the middle of Part II (a book not to be rushed) reading the Pevear translation too.
Part I -The brothers, Dmitri the soldier, Ivan the intellectual, and Alyosha the sensitive/innocent; Dostoevsky showing us this complex family, revealing the many tensions within the Karamazov family; has me hooked!
The lectures are fun for the car rides and walks -- they are getting me side-tracked though... I found myself tracking down and reading a Freud paper mentioned in the lectures titled "Dostoevsky and parricide" in which he investigated Dostoevsky's own neuroses and how they contributed to the novel.

Haven't started reading this yet but for those of you who have I thought you might find this interesting.....from Shelf Awareness Newsletter today...

"the not-so-serious-movie-news update: A new film adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov "concludes at the precise moment most readers give up on the classic Russian novel," according to the Onion, which noted that "the 83-minute film, which is based on the first 142 or so pages of Fyodor Dostoevsky's acclaimed work, has already garnered attention for its stunning climax, in which the end credits suddenly appear midway through Katerina's tearful speech about an unpaid debt."