Sick, convoluted and fantastic.

Спасибо большое Федору Михаиловичу Достоевскому!

Needs another edit. But it got 4 stars because it’s a good book

3rd time reading it. Doestoevsky has inhabited my soul for many years and makes me see life very deeply.

The diction is beautiful, the characters developed and narrative original. However the vast tangents F.D. takes (characteristically) combined with the decidedly doomed tone foreshadows a depressing and even anticlimactic ending. Language and intricacy aside, I could not recommend this to anyone unless they desire to feel pity.

Wow!! What a long book!! Longest I've read to date. The writings for me, I admit, were sometimes hard to understand in some places, however I really enjoyed the book. There was a lot of information, and people who were interesting. I did not expect the ending. I would recommend this book to anyone who can think while reading, and has the knowledge to comprehend and keep up with the story. I would read again.

Waste. So much promise fretted away, the author stands at the abyss and describes a tale that leaves the reader asking why.

Two cunning women terrorize a virtue signaling hapless prince.

Laborious

Loved this book, it changed my mind about Dostoyevsky whom I considered a bit too heavy. This is easy to read and keeps you interested the whole time. Left me thinking a lot about human nature and accountability. The edition/translation itself is not great, misspellings and grammatical errors are found. But it doesn't take from the story.