The Double: A Petersburg Poem Audiobook

" Loved The Gambler, but could have done without The Double. "

" The ultimate in terror - you go to your suffocating, spirit crushing office job and see your exact double - clothes, looks - sitting opposite. Paranoia gone mad. Nabokov called it 'one of the finest books in the Russian literary canon'. "

" Just finished the Double.. I wish I had someone I could talk to to help me understand it better. It was a bit difficult to follow at points, but I did enjoy it. I would read it again with a better understanding. "

" The Gambler is probably one of Dostoevsky's best short novels while The Double is not. It really speaks to the ability of the translators that the reader can definitively see a difference in the quality of the writing of these two stories; one from Dostoevsky's very early years, the other written alongside Crime and Punishment. Both are definitely good stories, but I think the most interesting part of this collection is being able to see the growth of the great novelist over his career. "

" This was the 100th book I read in 2010, which makes this the first year since I've been keeping records that I've ever gone into treble digits. "

" I love both of these novellas, though I really adored The Double. I know it's basically a rip-off of Gogol, but...I love Gogol. The Double is hilarious in ways Dostoevsky usually isn't; The Gambler is more "mature". "

" I've only read The Gambler from this collection. It's worth the book in itself. "

" I only read the Gambler, but it was enough. "

" pair this with the metamorphosis from an existential romp. "

" This is a fabulous translation of this much loved book. "

" My go-to guy if I want a really good read, the kind I have to puzzle over for days. This is a two-for-one deal, and they're both fantastic, although The Gambler is the star of this volume. "

" 2.5 stars for The Double, 3.5 for The Gambler. "

" The Double is a classic, and The Gambler is quite the autobiographical story. Don't read these however until you've had some exposure to Dostoevsky. "

" I am ashamed to give it only two stars - this probably makes me an uncultured ignoramus - but I would never have made it through this book if I hadn't had to for uni! I'm sure there are hidden depths to it etc etc though...and I enjoyed the comments about different nationalities, it has to be said. "

" Rating is for The Gambler; I have not yet read The Double. However, I am now on a mission to finally read Dostoevsky. "

" The writing is of course good, as is the translation. I didn't adore it, though. I hated the dialogue, and I was thoroughly confused by the story. But that was, of course, the point. "

" "It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man, touched by love, can sometimes express, and that precisely at a moment when the man would, of course, sooner be glad to fall through the earth than say or express anything with a word or a look." "