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... there is some dissent.
Is it paranoia when you think inanimate objects are mocking you? I have never been able to read The Idiot. LOL ... start with The Brothers Karamozov. Not quite a theologian or philosopher, but a little more accessible. Then move on to The Idiot.
Throw in some Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor, and you have a good beginning.
As to theologians, Jurgen Moltmann's The Theology of Hope is a good ... ... this is very hard. I'll limit myself to just one choice of each, though.
Most: The Brothers Karamazov because I loved The Idiot and Crime and Punishment and Karamazov is supposed to be Dostoevsky's best work.
Least: Moby Dick Somehow, I've never had to read this book for school, ... I plan to re-read soon:
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. ... Norwegian (29 volumes), but I haven't read all of them yet. Some of the voluminous novels are in two or three volumes (i.e. The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment), and there are two volumes of Dostoyevsky's letters and some volumes containing short stories.
P.S.
I hope ... I'm going to re-read The Idiot in about three (four?) weeks from now.
I have to finish Midnight's Children (by Salman Rushdie) which I'm currently reading. It is a great novel, as well.
I'm really looking forward to reading Dostoyevsky again.
I remember Myshkin in The Idiot as one of Do ... A long time ago I've readthe Brothers Karamazov and I liked it a lot.Now I'd like to read it again and to read the idiot as well. 8-10 years ago I read quite a lot of Dostoyevsky's novels, and I think four (at least) of them are marvellous:
1. The Idiot
2. Crime and Punishment
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. The Posessed (or 'Demons', which might be the correct English title?) ... did have some very interesting parts about how they lived day to day.)
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy,
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo,Quo Vadisby Henryk Sienkiewicz and Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward, both by Sir Walter Scott are some more ... ... my parents read. My mother read lots of books about India, so I asked if I could read the Far Pavillions. My dad read The Idiot, and I asked if I could read that. He was skeptical because I was only ten, and he tested me to see of I could understand it. I really loved the classics best, ... ... Copperfield or Pickwick Papers
The Histories - something a bit different
Vanity Fair
The Brothers Karamazov or The Idiot
First Circle or Cancer Ward
The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
The Idiot, Dostoyevsky
Monster, Sanyika Shakur
Confessions of a Crap Artist, Philip K. Dick
Hells Angels, Hunter S. Thompson Okay, I'm also cool with The Idiot, and I'll also say The Count of Monte Cristo, just to add more to the mix (like we need it). I read Les Miserables a long time ago, but I wouldn't mind joining in the discussions on that one. ... that, it'd be nice to read something from Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, or maybe The Idiot? I've fallen a bit behind where planned but I'm still chugging away. This fortnight I finally turned the last page of The Idiot and heaved a sigh of relief. Now I'm not saying that I'm not glad I read this book - I did - it just seemed to me like watching a great big boulder rolling down a ... I've fallen a bit behind where planned but I'm still chugging away. This fortnight I finally turned the last page of The Idiot and heaved a sigh of relief. Now I'm not saying that I'm not glad I read this book - I did - it just seemed to me like watching a great big boulder rolling down a ... ... & selection of items in his house. If you haven't read this, I'd make a space for it in your planning.
97. (130) The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (718pp)
I purchased this book almost 2 years ago now and I just didn't feel right having it on the shelf but never actually completing it so ... ... obscene Boundaries by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
19. Quartet by Jean Rhys
20. The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
21. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevski
22. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
23. Nine Stores by J.D.Salinger
24. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
25. Tale ... The Thin Man/Big Boned
Nineteen Minutes/100 Years of Solitude
Slow Man/Fast Women
The Master/The Idiot
White Teeth/Black Beauty ... Wife - John Collier
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye, Jonathan Lethem
Ferdydurke - Witold Gombrowicz
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
The Loved One - Waugh
Amorgos - Nikos Gatsos
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences - Twain
Crome Yellow - ... I think it was angst sublimation. No boyfriend? Read The Idiot. Not a drop of cheerleader in your persona (i.e., the popular girls)? Read Ulysses.
Kiwi, I had a huge science fiction collection too. :) Well, I don't know whether to recommend this or not since I loved The Idiot and Crime and Punishment, but hate (I'm not exaggerating) The Awakening. Still, just in case, have you read anything by Kazuo Ishiguro? Based on the book choices you've got up there that I've read, I'd strongly ... ... is the list keeps changing... but it's a good problem. Complete reviews of each book can be found in my library.
01. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
This was my first Dostoevsky and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found the characters engaging and while alone each might be a bit of a bore, ... ... love with them ever since. I have a particular fondness for Russian Literature, having read my father's discarded copy of The Idiot when I was ten. I also enjoy mysteries,historical fiction, southern literature, science fiction and historical biographies, not necessarily in that order. That ... 6. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky 608 pages- I really enjoyed this one. It was my first foray into Dostoevsky, and his characters felt very real to me. I just finished it two days ago, and I miss reading it already.
Total so far- 2034 pages
7. Sox and the City by Richard Roeper 208 ... ... Souls
Wuthering Heights
Fathers and Sons
Great Expectations
Notes from the Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Possessed
Anna Karenina
Germinal (long ago)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (long ago)
Hellemyrsfolket
Sult (in English: "Hunger")
The Picture of D ... ... Svejk (Hasek)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
The Idiot (Dostoevsky)
The Little Prince (St. Exupery)
The Outsider (Camus)
A Passage to India (Forster)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Light ... I am following the idealistic Prince Myshkin around Russia in Dostoevsky's The Idiot. " Oh no, not at all. You need not worry about that. My business is of quite a different nature."
The Idiot Dostoevsky
"You think, then, that you'll live more wisely than everyone else, do you?" " oh no, not a t all. You need not wrry about that. My business is of quite a different nature."
The Idiot Dostoevsky
"You think, then, that you'll live more wisely than everyone else, do you?" I am about 250 pages into The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This is my first foray into Dostoevsky, and I am finding it to be beautifully written. ... 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... #135: I loved The Idiot too.
You are going great guns, teelgee. Enjoying watching your turtle plod through W&P. I keep eyeing my copy but there it sits. Maybe in the summer. ... by Ian McEwan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
The Idiot by Fyodor Doestoyevsky
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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 thought The Idiot was a fascinating read, so I always recommend that one since so many people seem to skip over it.... ... a lot longer, with more characters, and therefore potentially harder to read/get into if you're not used to his style. The Idiot could be good- not as widely read, but a great book. Not so much The Devils or The Possessed (same book, published under different names)- definitely good, but ... ... 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 worth it. Let me know what you think. ... I brought with me. The oldest, or longest on my shelf, is The Beginnings of English Society (The Anglo Saxon Period) (2). The Idiot is close. I started reading it, just never finished it. Why is that? I was thoroughly enjoying it. 5. 1001 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU DIE
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
The Idiot - Fyodor Doestoyevsky
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
The Secret Histo ... ... the same shopping center, so....
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
...came home with me, all for a mere $8.45. This store sells new and used books, CDs, and DVDs. My books were used, obviously, ... ... question! Dostoyevsky, of course, was epileptic, and he certainly used that experience in his fiction - most overtly in The Idiot, which was always a favorite of mine. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky ... й.
Fair enough, as per present LT data, though original language is Russian, it says, original title is : "The idiot: A novel in two books (Selected works / Fyodor Dostoyevsky)" (sic), it says.
Proper Dutch title is De idioot, by Fjodor Dostojevski.
2)< ... 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 ... ... - Primo Levi
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Vanity Fair - William Thackery
alternate:
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky I'm currently re-reading The Idiot by Dostoevsky and lovin' it. Back in high school, I remember a summer when I read a lot of Dostoevsky and I'm starting to feel it coming on again. The Idiot is a different book, isn't it? In "The Machinist" Trevor is reading The Idiot, Dostoyevsky. At the moment I'm working on Fathers and Sons and The Idiot for school. The Idiot is a reread for me and I love it. I'm liking Fathers and Sons too though, a lot more than I expected to. On my own I'm reading The Old Curiosity Shop, although I'm finding I don't have a lot of time to devote to ... ... attend The Trail with Kafka and Nickelini which I didn’t think much of. Now I’m glad to be back in Petersburg for The Idiot. Throughout it all I’ve been learning loads from Riasanovsky’s A History of Russia while skipping all across the map of Russia, (although I was most ... I would say Dostoevsky's Idiot. All of his works are apt, but this one just happens to be my favorite. ... to make that Shakespeare explores existentialist themes in H and KL just as much as Dostoevsky does in The Demons, or the Idiot, for example.
But I'm obviuosly mad, so I'll just stay out and let you guys carry on. Sorry if I offended anyone.
:) Xiguli (#7):
I had to have the crime and punishment - it was a design/art investment for me... (Dostoyevsky's The Idiot (Penguin Designer Classics) in that edition is next on the list in my collection...)
And as far as different cover/designs for different countries - I *love* collecting ... ... I've read it before. Probably in one of my asian lit classes during my undergrad.
geneg -
How about reading The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky? My boyfriend has been reading that book on and off for a while now and it seems he'll never get around to finishing it so as to ... ... story series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is all about communism. I’m happy to know people have noticed that The Idiot and Bhagavad-gita are fantasy. However, I wasn’t aware that Animal farm is folklore. I was never any good in geography, but now I know that Lolita and The ... ... story series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is about communism. I’m happy to know people have noticed that The Idiot and Bhagavad-gita are fantasy. However, I wasn’t aware that Animal farm is folklore. I was never any good in geography, but now I know that Lolita and The ... ... acting out of good motivations.
I'm reminded of the character Smerdyakov in one of Dostoyevsky's novels (I think it was The Idiot). I'm thinking of the absolutely chilling scene when Smerdyakov goes into the little girl's bedroom and is convinced she is consciously and deliberately trying to ... ... which I really don't think can be appreciated in the abstract. And Dostoevsky is so essential, I wish there were room for The Idiot as well as The Brothers Karamazov. One really must have examples drawn from life to ever begin to understand the kinds of dilemmas people face in the ... I am currently read four books, three of which are classics:
The Idiot; Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Aeneid; Virgil
Don Quixote; Miguel de Cervantes
... (but that might be a compliment to some...LOL)
A Maggot by John Fowles
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
and for something modern, The Yellow Bastard by Frank Miller
(The first four were from the 1001 must-read books list. ;o) I'd be very interested. I'm currently reading The Idiot. ... (at least in a weeks time).
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{added 8/4/07} The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (564 pages) Comments: I started this book at the beginning of the summer, but I didn't quite finish it. Thus, I decided to restart it in ... I usually have a ton of quotes from anything written by Dostoevsky. So not so suprisingly The Idiot has provided a ton as well.
“…what plans are graver and more sacred than a father’s? What should a man cling to, if not to his family?” (15)
“What must be passing in the soul ... Is anyone interested in a "slow reading" of The Idiot? By that I mean giving less attention to the psychological "themes" typical of secondary sources and more - even line by line - on the conversations and actions (and the connections between them) that happen within the book. Maybe I will just ... ... work is : Misdaad en straf.
Alternative Dutch language title of this work is : Schuld en boete.
• The Idiot (your copy)
Dutch language title of this work is : De idioot.
Both of us do know and remember that I have ... ... of the birth, where he eventually came around a bit and began work on his next novel, which would turn out to be The Idiot, and was able to extract the first of many generous and in many ways life-saving advances on it and other proposed and actual projects from Katkov. A daughter was ... ... ars.
(Up next, Tolstoy and War and Peace, plus the Dostoevskys wandering nearly penniless in Europe, and writing of the The Idiot and The Possessed) ... translation
The Decameron by Boccaccio
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Anything by Agatha Christie
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevski
Logbook from the Sea of Cortez by Steinbeck
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison by Ja ... ...
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Carey
A Fine Balance by Minstry
Cloud Atlas by Mitchell
Wicked by Maguire
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
Years of Rice and Salt by Robinson
(there are more too, but these are the top 7)
... do come to life. But Doestoevsky has a way of plunging us deep into his characters' souls. My personal favorite is The Idiot, which is suffused with a sense of redemption and hope, but The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment are also amazing novels. ... greatest of the Dostoievsky novels is the Brothers Karamazov, but some would vote for Crime and Punishment or the Idiot. Turgenev's most famous novel is Fathers and Sons, but my favorites are the Sportsmen's Sketches aka Sketches from a Hunter's Album which were very popular in ... ... The Romany Rye by George Borrow
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan LeFanu
The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
The Marble Faun ... ... where the banal writing was in my view a huge missed opportunity to write about a fascinating alternate timeline.
The Idiot was turgid and dreary, even speaking as someone who, as can be seen from my library, am no stranger to reading classic Russian literature.
2001: A Space Odysse ... ... just because I like the closure, but I'm perfectly willing to drop one if it's not doing it for me. I finally gave up on The Idiot a third of the way through because I just wasn't interested and had other books I wanted to read. I couldn't finish Cold Mountain either. The Idiot. I gave it up a third of the way through. I didn't like the characters and didn't care what happened to them.
I enjoyed Crime and Punishment and finally finished The Brothers Karamozov on the third try. A very long list that shames me, I'm afraid. Of course The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Magic Mountain, The Vivisector, Voss, Les Miserables, The Glass Bead Game, Beowulf, Don Quixote, Nostromo, The Tale of Genji and Piers Ploughman. A comprehensive lack of interest in ... Just getting a good start on Dostoevsky's The Idiot. ... it's finished - much to my chagrin the next day.
How very different to my struggle with The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot, not even mentioning several 'major European novels' that have remained 'started but unfinished' for years at a time. There's something to be said for the quality ... Dostoevsky's The Idiot. I had started it once before and dropped it. I've started over and have enjoyed it so far. I liked Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamozov also. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Idiot by Dostoyevski (yeah, I know that's not really a big one, but I'm guessing it'll be a big sort of read).
And I'm determined to finish The American Boy by Andrew Taylor (the touchstone doesn't ... I pulled these somewhat haphazardly out of the fiction titles I had rated as fives:
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
Germinal by Zola
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Ulysses by Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
The Recognitions ... ...
I'm embarrassed to say that I haven't finished Crime and Punishment, but in what I have read (Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot, The Possessed), Dostoevsky deals with adult situations in non-explicit ways. Not stuff I'd read to kids, but I'd unhesitatingly recommend these books to ... ... despite lauding Dostoevsky, I constantly fail to finish his novels; I've been reading The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot for close on fifteen years and can't make any headway with either. ... and revisit Dostoevsky, whom I so much enjoyed in my teens, nearly 40 years ago - though I was then baffled by The Idiot. So I re-read it twice, first in Allan Myers Oxford translation, and was still baffled and then in the newish Everyman translation by Richard Pavear & Larissa Volo ...
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