To be honest, the whole book is confusing even if you read it as written. It's probably me reading it over months, but forgetting names and relations does not h

To be honest, the whole book is confusing even if you read it as written. It's probably me reading it over months, but forgetting names and relations does not help. So, probably skipping some chapters wouldn't matter to me that much. In general, I love the book. I definitely need to finish it! There was a time I wanted to learn Russian to read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.