The Idiot (Blackstone) Audiobook (Unabridged)

" Just a tiny bit disappointing compared to some of his other books, but great nevertheless. "

" One of my favorite books of all time! While very heavy and sad, it is such a descriptive and involved book that you get lost in it. Highly recommend! "

" Could not put it down :) "

" Brilliant! Dostoyevsky does an excellent job of depicting the insane. I swear this book was written about former acquaintances. It truly gave me chills. Incidentally, I tried a couple of translations and the Constance Garnett was heads above the rest. "

" I found through this book that I prefer Dostoevsky to Tolstoy. More character development and less historical description. "

" It's long and I know heart wrenching at times but so worth it. Push on! "

" Good old Russian fiction. Such scope and desperate resignation. "

" I love this book, written in pre-Soviet Russia, grappling with the various types of characters you would meet, with a Russian world view on the situation "

" This was always the favourite of the Dostoevsky, which possibly doesn't say much for me since I think critically it's not considered up there, but it seems to me to be his most romantic and human book. There is less of the philosophising and more of the personality. "

" most of the part boring, wasn't really my type. "

" Well, a classic but still stunning. I just read it again. "

" I read after watching film which was maked on that book. I liked that it was shown differences between hypocrisis of casual people and sincery of man with mental troubles. "

" Quite religious book, asking moral questions. Dramatic, even hysterical scenes. "

" Dostoyevsky has such tremendous insight. "

" Extremely hard to follow, characters with wired behaviour and long boring conversation, just not my book, give up after reading half. "

" Slow going but some brilliant scenes. "

" Its very difficult to review on Russian literature classic, but then Dostoyevsky has its own unique way of plotting and then un-plotting it. A must read for Dostoyevsky fans...I personally think it was a bit better than CnP .... Dostoyevsky is a legend in his own legacy. "

" I really enjoyed this book. There were sections that were very moving. Despite this I am not sure I understood the book as a whole. "

" I did like the first part of the book, really liked it. But after that it just didn't do the trick, thus the 2 stars. "

" Amazing on too many levels to get into here, but the prince walks around in me now coloring the way I see the rest of y'all. "

" 4.5 stars if I could, not quite Crime & Punishment or Karamazov, nonetheless great. "

" I think that in each of us there is one idiot like Dostoyevsky's. I admire his portrayal. I admire the range of psychological experiences depicted here from rejection, belonging, diaspora, searching for the self and strikingly disappointment and depression! "