I read The Brothers Karamazov in my early 20s and after the first 100 / 150 pages or so, which as other have mentioned felt like quite a slog, I was blown away

I read The Brothers Karamazov in my early 20s and after the first 100 / 150 pages or so, which as other have mentioned felt like quite a slog, I was blown away by it. I tried to read it again around 20 years later and it felt wildly overdone. As Borges said, if you get bored reading a book then it wasn't written for you, but I think that needs an addendum that it wasn't written for you at that point in your life. Perhaps I'll enjoy it again later on - the pressures of work and a family do mean that I find myself having very little time or patience for melodramatic people in my life, and I wonder if that has spilled over into my appreciation of novels!