So I have read the big three by Dostoevsky.

>>8632626
The dream of a ridicioulus man

Demons is leagues better than The Idiot

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.

The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."
The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.
Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.

>>8632633
this

>>8632633
Yup. Read The Gambler too.

>>8632626
Demons is very good, it has a Tolstoy-esque focus on character interaction as opposed to internal motivations. It also has one of Dostoyevsky's best characters, Kirillov

Define the "Big three", since he's usually seen as Pre-Prison and Post-Prison, meaning usually it's Poor Folk, House of the Dead, Notes From Underground, and The Gambler.
Then the major four are Crime and Punishment, Demons, the Idiot, and Brothers Karamazov

Poor Folk changed russian literature at the time. The Idiot is good, so is Demons.

Really every book is good, with The Gambler being the worst (desu senpai)


>>8632754
>reading something that he wrote out of desperation over 3 weeks
wew lad

>>8632643
You ooze the aura of a pretentious pseud

>>8632643
Nice Trump cadence.

>>8632818

Lurk more, my friend. It's a Nabokov quote.

>unless you were being ironic, in which case, 8/10

which TBK is the best?
I just picked up a hard cover constance at my local UBS for 5$. (nelson doubleday publisher)
a friend said they liked P&V
should I find a copy of that and try to switch back and forth?

Should I drop TBK and pick up another of his books? If I was only going to read one, which one should it be?
I read halfway through C&P before losing it.

>>8632643
okay nabokov

I just got The House of the Dead for like $2 but haven't started it yet. Any thoughts on it? I have no idea what its about

>>8633501
i'm reading garnett, it's pretty good

>>8632643
Where can I find all of these entries by Nabokov?

>>8632633
i disagree, Idiot was my favorite besides BK

>>8632626
Dostoevsky is awesome and reading his books is as easy as reading Harry Potter or Young Adult Fiction in general. This is the perfect author to start literature.

Dostoyevsky is good as far as u like boring realism mixed with propethic bullshit. And i dont realy get why ppl are so excited about him and his sensless books.

A Writer's Diary

>>8635581

>Reading for plot.

Gee I wonder why you don't like Dostoevsky. Just look at that shitty pleb spelling.

You probably didn't get any of it.

>>8635738
Do you read dostoevksy for the prose? In translation no less?

>>8632631
this + "Notes from Underground" for his shorter stuff.

>>8635750
>If you're not reading for plot you must be reading for prose
It's Dostoyevsky.
Themes, characterization, psychology, philosophy.
If you can't see the merit of his writing you're either underageb& or an edgy, socially underdeveloped redditor.
Even those that dislike his work see the merit of it without
>muh plots
>muh prose