Now that my attention span has been utterly destroyed, is there

>>9394561
just take the redpill instead, cuck

>>9394561
Or does The Idiot just suck and it has nothing to do with my attention span? Throw me a bone here, it's been a while since I read a novel more than 50 years old.

>>9394582
Dostoevsky doesn't suck but a lot of his writing is fairly tedious. It's also 600 pages, which isn't horribly long, but if you attention span isn't great right now you might want to try something shorter.

You could try Blood Meridian, fairly brief and has some grabby bits.

>>9394582
I've heard that there are no adequate translations that successfully recreate his Russian prose, but I don't know Russian so I can't say for sure.

>>9394830
Regarding the translation issue, the Pevear translations are a complete marketing meme. Can't speak about all his books because I haven't read them, but I switched from the Pevear translation to the one by Ignat Avsey in the middle of Karamazov and it was a drastic improvement.

The Metamorphosis by Kafka is one of those few classic works that hooks most people into reading it in one sitting, is quite short so you might finish it in an afternoon

but some schlock might help you out too, Steel World by BV Larson reads quite fast and its pretty fun

>>9394561
Damn that's some pretty /lit/ peanuts.