Review:I love Dostoyevsky. I studied most of his books at the university. So the two stars are not for Dostoevsky, I just want to be clear on this. The two stars are for the poor translation of Eva Martin. It's so bad I did not even finish the book. Strange sentences, poorly constructed, unsophisticated language - at least in my opinion. Will try again with a different digital translation. Read more

Review:the positive things about this book (mentioned in other reviews) so far outweigh anything negative about this book or this man. It reminds me of what George Bernard Shaw said: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world - the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

This book has led me to adjust some of my most basic beliefs about what life is all about. Read more