Looking at other comments here and elsewhere, I believe with Dostoevsky's work, it's binary -- you either love him to death, or you are bored of him to death. G

Looking at other comments here and elsewhere, I believe with Dostoevsky's work, it's binary -- you either love him to death, or you are bored of him to death. Glad to be in the former camp. I really love how Dostoevsky's novels seem so simple on the surface, yet as you keep reading, they keep getting better, and deeper, and more profound, without losing the simplicity or authenticity. Looking back, The Brother's Karamazov is the best book I've ever read. I was just recently thinking of giving it a re-read, will probably be great to do it in a different translation. It has happened to me before that a book that I greatly admired felt not so great when re-reading it later (The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts, I still feel it's good, but having internalized the core concepts, it seemed way too repetitive on second read). Hope that doesn't happen when I re-read Dostoevsky's novels, I have a feeling I would like them even better, but who knows.