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... of that thread. So we've got two (or more?) threads for this purpose.
Well, two famous novels I read 8-10 years ago:
The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Very looong books and great enjoyments. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Why, as a matter of fact, I have read both The Brothers Karamazov *and* Les Miserables. Although not in the original.
The person below me has read some classic in the original language of the author and will tell us what it is. Oh alright, Spoilsport!
TPBM has read The Brothers Karamazov. 33. Brothers Karamazow - F. Dostojevski.
Finally finished this book and I really loved this!
The brothers Karamazow walk, talk and argue a lot throughout the books, but it never gets boring. Dostojevski has a ironic style of writing about Russia of his time, the people who live in it and the Ru ... ... People - 4
Les Miserables - 3
The Invisible Man - 3
The Cairo Trilogy - 3
Dead Souls - 2
Howard's End - 2
The Brothers Karamazov - 2
The Betrothed - 2
As A Man Grows Older - 2
Confessions of Zeno - 2
The Late Mattia Pascal - 2
An American Tragedy - 2
Woman Warri ... #65 - The Brothers Karamazov being removed is shameful. I hope they are deeply ashamed.
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I haven't read the Brothers Karamazov but know it by reputation. That deletion seems bizarre, to say the least. This may be the most egregious error, but there are several other very odd ... ... or Buddenbrooks
David Copperfield or Pickwick Papers
The Histories - something a bit different
Vanity Fair
The Brothers Karamazov or The Idiot
First Circle or Cancer Ward
... the husband and wife team of Richard Pevear and Lisa Volokhonsky that got rave reviews. They also did a translation of the Brothers Karamazov that made Dostoevsky seem incredibly lively for a 19th century Russian obsessed with religion and sin, plus that Anna Karenina that Oprah so loved (no ... ... which would be nice.
Other than that, it'd be nice to read something from Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, or maybe The Idiot? Still reading Brothers Karamazow, I love it. I think I'll be disappointed when I finish the novel, because I finished it.
Also still busy in non-fiction: Orientalism by Edward Said. Started The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky today. ... Heyer. The classics I've found hardest to put down...probably Pickwick or Bleak House and the Pevear translation of Karamazov...although the latter seemed a bit crumbly as a novel and kept breaking up into a collection of sermons. Everyone in the book is breaking into sermons: Zosima, Gr ... The latest review at amazon.uk says The Brothers Karamazov is gone from the list. #63 - I just finished The Brothers Karamazov earlier this month. Are you enjoying it? I found the begining slow going, but it gets better. Overall, I am glad I read it, but definately NOT on my - will read again someday list.
I am reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles right now, and loving it. ... am reading Tess of the D'urbervilles this weekend. Quite enjoyable in a quiet way. I am on a classics kick lately. Read The Brothers Karamazov-- enjoyable yet a bit of a chore, Brave New World - pretty good, but not my favorite subject matter, To the Ligthouse -- elegant and beautiful, ... About 360 pages in Brothers Karamazow. Doesn't Dostoevsky address something similar through one of his characters in The Brothers Karamazov. Something about an onion. I did finish The Brothers Karamazov -- it definately got better, but I didn't love it. Tedious. I am following it up with The Brothers K by David James Duncan, which many LTers have recommended and so far it is emminently more enjoyable.
Book of Job from the Bible and Brothers Karamazow by Dostojevski. Love them both. ...
Les Grecs ont ils cru a leurs mythes? - Paul Veyne
The name of the rose - Umberto Eco
Orientalism - Edward Said
The Brother Karamazow - Dostojevski
In de bovenkooi - Maarten Biesheuvel (Dutch short stories)
... Laurids Brigge - R. M. Rilke (only in revised edition of the list)
46. Against the grain - Joris-Karl Huysmans
47. The brothers Karamazow - Dostojevski I making my way through The Brothers Karamazov and I have to admit it is getting better in the second half -- either that or I am growing used to Dostoyevsky's rather histrionic style. I just want to gouge the eyes out of some of the characters, they're so tedious.
Although, I have fond ... Ah, I remember well the many hours I spent slogging through The Brothers Karamazov! I only finished it because I was reading it for a class and then I donated the book to the library. However, if you haven't already read David James Duncan's book The Brothers K, you might enjoy it more. It ... ... character sketch artist. It is the only early reviewer book I have gotten that has been any good.
I am slogging through The Brothers Karamazov ~ pg 250. I swear I won't give up this time, but unfortunately thus far, I am finding much of it painful. #119, same here with Age of Innocence, Madame Bovary and The Brothers Karamazov. I've read them, and I have way too many unread books stacked up to invest the time in a reread right now. Not sure I'm that eager to read either of the other two, so I may not be in this time. Too bad, since I ... I read The Magic Mountain and The Brothers Karamazov some years ago and I don't want to spend my time re-reading one of them now. They are moreover rather (very) voluminous novels (especially Dostoyevsky's).
I guess I'll go for Madame Bovary. Or Buddenbrooks ?? :-/
Age of Innocence: ... ... I hold out for the books in pristine condition. (Even then I've had some unpleasant surprises.) If a copy of the 1933 LEC Brothers Karamazov is selling for less than $200, I try to sit on my hands and hold out.
Addenda: I just looked at the one on eBay and the fact there is obvious water ... ... and the winners are (envelope please! -- no, they really are written on the back of an envelope!)
The Magic Mountain
The Brothers Karamazov
Madame Bovary
Age of Innocence
Buddenbrooks
These aren't in order of # of votes, I didn't want to skew the survey, so I mixed them up.
... ... I also haven't participated in this group before, and would vote for Madame Bovary or Far From the Madding Crowd. Or The Brothers Karamazov since I've been putting it off forever. ... I'm sure is far superior to the Garnett translation I have now. My only hesitation is that I keep hoping to find the LEC The Brothers Karamazov in the first printing they did in the 30s with amazing illustrations by Alexander King. This is rare as a hen's bicuspid and the only time I ever ... At this point I'm all for Brothers Karamazov, Buddenbrooks, or The Age of Innocence. I finished my mystery kick with Beautiful Lies - pretty good, not great.
And I just started The Brothers Karamazov last night. So far, it is going like it did last time I tried it (~ 15 years ago) I fell asleep almost immediately -- this time I will perservere. Any words of encouragement ... I've read several of the others, so I'm partial to The Brothers Karamazov and The Magic Mountain ... of Innocence
Ruling out Enchantress of Florence because it's only available in hardcover and The Magic Mountain, The Brothers Karamazov, and Madame Bovary because I've reread them all in the past several years.
(I also would vote for several in the 2-vote category -- The Red and ... Ik lees nu voor de tweede keer Medea. Stemmen van Christa Wolf. Verder heb ik De gebroeders Karamazow naast mijn bed liggen. My top 3 would be Buddenbrooks, Brothers Karamazov and Wives and Daughters. ... herd cats? lol love the imagery of you try though. lol
My votes are for the following
Les Miz
Wives and Daughters
Brothers Karamazov
Madam Bovary
IMO Enchantress of Florence is just too new to be considered at this time. Perhaps its something that we can shelve until its out ... I wouldn't mind joining in and trying any one of these:
1. The Brothers Karamozov
2. The Magic Mountain
3. The Tale of Genji
4. David Copperfield
5. Vanity Fair ... Quarry, so far one of the better Sue Grafton mysteries, for something light, before I decide for sure whether to tackle The Brothers Karmazov in a second attempt. ... of Florence (English edition, I'll get it soon)
Buddenbrooks (Norwegian)
Wuthering Heights (Eng. + Nor.)
The Brothers Karamazov (Nor.)
Pride and Prejudice (Eng. + Nor.)
Madame Bovary (Nor.)
David Copperfield (Eng.)
Great Expectations (Eng. + Nor.)
Bleak House (En ... I'll put in my three-cents-worth for:
1. The Brothers Karamozov
2. Wives and Daughters and
3. Far From the Madding Crowd in that order.
I am feeling too much TBR pressure to do a reread at this point. That's why I opted out of reading Middlemarch which is one of my all-time favorites. ... ... - Alexandre Dumas = 2
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy = 2
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo = 3
The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky = 3
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte = 4
Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 6
I may have missed some, but ... I am going to throw my vote in for The Brothers Karamazov again. It is sitting on my shelf and I promised myself I would re-try it soon. I suspect those of you who just read War and Peace aren't down with this though.
We could also have two choices/two threads going? Perhaps a 'classic' ... ...
I also looked at my shelf and there are some others I wouldn't mind reading:
Vanity Fair William Makepeach Thackeray
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Bleak House Charles Dickens ... Heights by Emily Bronte
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Julie or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Why not choose a French ... My oldest TBR book is The Brothers Karamazov, which I've been meaning to read for 4 years now. I've gotten as far as the Grand Inquisitor scene, and then I stop. The crazy thing is, I like the book while I'm reading it, but then I stop for some reason and don't start again for months. Maybe its ... ... Wolves (short stories, 246 pp)
35b. Gascoyne (fiction, 245 pp)
36b. Passionella (humor, no page #s -- 150?)
37b. Two Brothers (Early Reviewer & Civil War, 317 pp)
38b. The Deportees (short stories, 242 pp)
Atlas Shrugged
The Brothers Karamazov
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fahrenheit 451
On the Beach
Califia's Daughters
Hondo
A Distant Music (The Tin Whistle) (The Penny Whistle) It’s one book, sold under different names.
Alice in Wonderland
The Stand
The Hornet’s Nest
Dev ... ... suggest the following:
The Bible
The Federalist
The Lincoln/Douglas Debates
Das Kapital
The Wealth of Nations
The Brothers Karamazov
These are just a few of the books I expect would be useful to the next president.
I do have apreference in this race and it ain't John McCain ... 1. Don Quijote
2. Madame Bovary
3. Things Fall Apart
4. Great Expectations
5. Medea
6. The Brothers Karamazov
7. Pride and Prejudice
8. Tristram Shandy
9. War and peace
10. Molloy #84 - Sympathetic devils. Yes. I felt that way when I read The Brothers Karamazov as a teenager. I felt very sorry for Dostoyevsky's devil.
I've read a lot of adaptations of classics the past few years. Finding things that the kids can grasp. There was a nice children's adaptation of Paradise ... The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
Great expectations by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Odessey by Homer
etc.
etc. etc. etc. :-)) ... nkin.
I have read lots of Russian Classics including Crime and punishment and other things by Dostoevsky, but not the Brothers Karamazov kjellika, I will definitely agree with you that The Brothers Karamazov is indeed a great novel. And one that I'd like to re-read at some point, though probably after I've read some of his other work. I've not yet got round to either Crime and Punishment or The Idiot... Some years ago I read The Brothers Karamazov and I think it would be nice to read it once again. It is surely a great novel written by one of the world's greatest authors. I hope someone else agree with me. ... us focus on books that we know we SHOULD read but are afraid to tackle (like W&P!). For me two biggies are Moby Dick and The Brothers Karamazov. ... Hunger; Simplicius Simplicissimus; History of the Peloponnesian War; The Histories by Herodutus; The Mabinogion; The Brothers Karamazov; Pensees; Ficciones; If On A Winter's Night a Traveler; Runaway Horses; The Count of Monte Cristo. ... e)
Dissertation on Roast Pig (Lamb)
Moby Dick (Melville)
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll)
Goblin Market (Rosetti)
Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust)
Transposed Heads (Mann)
Faustus (Mann)
Miss Lonleyhearts (West)
New Directions in Poetry ... I started with Brothers Karamozov and so far it's the only Dostoevsky I've read (though The Idiot is sitting on the TBR pile as my next crack at him.) I've also read "The Heavenly Christmas Tree", a heartbreaking short story by him.
The only tough thing about Dostoevsky (and Russian writers ... I'll second the nomination for The Brothers Karamazov! ... easy to follow, it's not too long, and since there aren't that many characters, it's easier to keep track of who is whom. The Brothers Karamazov is my favorite, but it's a lot longer, with more characters, and therefore potentially harder to read/get into if you're not used to his style. The ... 17: brlb21: I did not think that The Brothers Karamazov was Dostoevsky's second-best novel next to Crime and Punishment as many people seem to; I reserve that honor for The Idiot. It was; however, definitely a great novel. There are some slower points, but if you push through them, it is well ... I plan on starting The Brothers Karamazov and The Walleye War and hopefully finishing The Blade Itself and The Eagle and the Raven.
The Abercrombie book I have been trying to read for about a month now, and haven't found the time to finish it (but since it is Spring Break...). ... in the car; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn on my ipod for when I'm on my walk and finally just started reading The Brothers Karamazov. Picked up this book for 20 cents at my local library book sale. I'm loving Huckleberry Finn. Not to sure about Orlando though. ... Sun and Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Palestine -- Dreamers of the Day by Maria Doria Russell
Russia -- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Scotland -- Death at Glamis Castle by Robin Paige
Sierra Leone -- A Long Way Gone by Ismael Beah
South Africa -- Cry, ... ... what books are on your inventory that you don't think will ever be mooched?
I have:
Volume 2 of a random edition of The Brothers Karamazov
Debi Gliori's Pure Dead Wicked with weird page-cuttings
Elizabeth Goudge's The White Witch (no relation to Narnia)
A ratty old copy of Treasur ... ... to it. Perfect example was yesterday. I went into Barnes and Noble(my local bookstore) and I planned on buying ONE book, The brothers Karamazov, but I ended up with SEVEN books. It was like I was in trance. I walked past shelves and I kept seeing books that interested me. By the time I was ... Started The Brothers Karamazov yesterday. Reading Frankenstein at lunch, plan to hit Dracula sometime soon. I'm thinking about Moby Dick and The Brothers Karamazov later in the year. Do the James Bond books count? 8^} I'll be reading the Pevear-Volokhonsky version soon. I've already read their The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, and Crime and Punishment, but honestly I'm no wiser on whether they're good translators or not, since I don't know Russian. There were a few points in ... Today I broke down and bought War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Brothers Karamazov, Vanity Fair and A Confederacy of Dunces. I think this might keep me busy for a long time. ... originally intended for and often published in a single volumes, but which are sometimes published in two volumes, like The Brothers Karamazov or War and Peace?
b) Or will only long novels like the Man Without Qualities or Joseph and his Brothers qualify? How we can ensure the ... ... cred
5. Ashes of Waco
6. Divine Horsemen
7. The Invasion Within
8. Decolonizing the Mind
Russian/Ukraine
1. The Brothers Karamazov
2. The Possessed
3. The Idiot
4. Notes From Underground
5. Dead Souls by Gogol, Nikolai
6. Doctor Zhivago
7. The Word and Wax
8. ... ... off the top of my head, here I the ones folks have listed that I have read any thoroughly enjoyed:
Anna Karenina
The Bothers Karamazov
Beowulf
Gone with the Wind
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The 237th Star Trek/Star Wars Novel
;o)
See, all is not lost. >82 Well, actually, the devil in The Brothers Karamazov is dressed in a cheesy fashion and the question of taste is central to his characterization. He's depicted in part as a kind of embarrassing relative. Of course you're right that the metaphysics are different.
One thing that has clearly ... ... let's face it, attraction) is part of a general human equation.
To cite a few examples: the dialogue with the devil in The Brothers Karamazov. It's the necessary "minus sign" which helps a person to make sense. Or, in baby-boomer culture, the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil." Or, ... The Brothers Karamazov would be a really nice One Book. I've started it once before, but I was in the wrong state of mind, and put it down before it killed me. Maybe I'll try again soon, but there are a lot of books calling from my TBR... ... Maria Rilke
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Gulag Archipeligo by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Church Dogmatics II.2
Autumn Rhythm by Jackson Pollock
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