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By The Morbid Seeker on October 5, 2009
One of the best books ever by the world's finest novelist and thinker who ever lived. Wherever you are now, Mr. Dostoyevsky, this is for you: bacio tua mano, Padrino.
By Guy DeBook on October 1, 2005
Just a missing attribution. This is the Constance Garnett translation of the novel. By far my favorite. I don't know anything about Constance herself but I love her for the way she took my hand and led me into the story that lay behind all those crazy russian letters.
I made a vow once that I'd reread the Brothers every Easter time. I didn't actually do that but it's nice that I thought I should.
By John Marcus on September 19, 2005
A gripping story the whole way through. While Dostoevsky does a good job at weaving the plot together, he also throws in many details about Russian life and gives insights about Atheism and the Roman Catholic Church. The characters mention God a number of times, but get it wrong so often. The monk "worshipped" by one of the characters, for example, promotes the idea that God is in you and is in everybody and denies that devils are real. Yet, it seems likely that Dostoevsky is recording what many in Russia actually believe. This book is worth reading, if only to get one's mind thinking.
