I knew I absolutely had to request it. She is hilariously raw and real. Even though she is more known for her comedic snapchat induced characters, Clery is incredibly sweet, ernest, and charming through every page.
It is utterly fantastic. View 1 comment. Laura Clery is an amazing comedienne. She is an absolute hoot. This book was not a hoot. It was also not funny, not bearable and a tad a lot. A whole fuck-ton hyperbolic. She describes the typical bored suburban kid bullshit lying to get cigarettes etc.
Man, I hate saying that. I wanted so much to LOVE this book. To laugh along as she Laura Clery is an amazing comedienne. To laugh along as she deliriously was her marvelous, funny self. It was painful to read. I felt like I had snuck my 17 year-old daughter's diary for entertainment and then shockingly realized what a vapid cunt I was raising. This is a bad analogy. One, I don't have kids. Two, if your stealing your kids' diary for entertainment you need therapy.
But it's all I got. I still adore Laura, but I can never unsee this poorly, over-the-top written drudge. Maybe if there is a re-do. I mean that energy is super funny for a 6 minute video, but pages of Help Helen Smash was agonizing.
It took me one day to read it and it was a very long day. She is in recovery and thats fab. The book is still not fab. Nov 13, Cliff Medlin rated it did not like it. Nothing is compelling. Nothing jumps out as much as she does online. Mostly seems like a cash grab because a lot of people like a sad story with a happy ending. She made bad choices, sometimes they lead to funny circumstances But does it make it book worthy? Absolutely not.
The ink and paper was wasted something terrible. Best used for fire kindling or emergency toilet paper May 06, Jocelyn rated it it was amazing Shelves: , non-fiction. I first discovered Laura Clery a year or so ago while sucked in a wormhole of FB videos.
I watch her videos all the time - and very recently discovered her book. A book? Give it to me nowwwww! Or the entire book Laura has lived an interesting and inspiring life. I appreciate the streng I first discovered Laura Clery a year or so ago while sucked in a wormhole of FB videos. I appreciate the strength it must have taken to get so personal. Laura is fantastic and I look forward to more of her in the future!
Jan 12, One chapter more rated it liked it. Rate of the audiobook. Don't get me wrong. I love Laura. She's hilarious and her relationship with her husband is just to admire. But her life story made me only feel sorry for her and I'm sure it was not the point. I'd rather admire her life now than feel bad for her past. You go girl! May 01, Erin Meyer rated it really liked it. I went into this expecting to listen to 7 hours of Laura Clery comedy only. I was so shocked to hear about her upbringing and her struggle to get where she is.
I never would have guessed it. I loved listening to her tell her story. Even in the darkest part of her past, she tells it in a way that makes you laugh. Feb 01, Tiffany rated it really liked it. I didn't care for the first couple of chapters but otherwise enjoyed this. Mar 01, Pallabi Priyaadarshini rated it liked it.
If you haven't seen any of her videos yet head to it. Honestly I was surprised that she has written a book and was further taken aback with the vulnerability and openness in it. Looking at her today no one would guess of her being the same person who has struggled with addiction, has slipped in to it umpteen times and finally managed to come out of it.
Its a good book, with a lot of life lessons. Some of them being - - Your child might have the most unrealistic ambition, but don't belittle them. Its those confident kids that become confident adults. These should be those whom you can call from a road coz you've been thrown out and they will come and be with you.
And if need be, knocks some sense in you. Your confidence is the key to succeed, if you don't believe in your craft no one else will. It just leads you back in the same gutter you made out of. Do it, even if it kills you. The writing definitely needs improvement, but I wouldn't complain.
In between all those faults I found a story that truly speaks what it took for a person to become the best version of herself. Aug 06, Taschima rated it it was amazing Shelves: newts , biography , audiobooks.
It was really an inspirational book; Laura Clery has been through some shit and come out the other side a more present, giving, and positive person, against all odds. May 13, Quinn's Quippy Quotes rated it liked it Shelves: overdrive. This was interesting and an ok listen. It's been a really long time since I've read any sort of autobiographical book, but I love Laura and really wanted to know all about her struggles to get where she is today.
Again this was interesting, and kind of crazy. It's hard for me to believe that people really live this way and don't have the support system that I grew up with. Struggle bus ran me over. Might try again another time. Jul 15, Bethany Buck rated it really liked it. Audiobook - such a great listen! However when I heard that the genius behind Help Helen Smash was releasing a book I had to do more research.
From there I found that she was writing about her time before youtube and Facebook and social media period To me this was already a hit, but then I found out what that time included Then I was hooked I had to read this book!!
Im so so super happy I did. Lauras book is relatable and written in a humorous but honestly blunt manner. Her trials through her own addiction and what it had caused her mentally and physically was really relatable for me. I have dealt with addiction and still deal with PTSD and Bipolar b disorder, so for ne to hear someone be honest about failing but getting back up was what really touched me and made ne fall harder for this book!!
I already loved Laura and her hilarious videos, but now I can actually relate to her and it gives the reader a really personal effect. Great job girl!! Go ahead and be a boss bitch!! May 10, Jason Oliver rated it it was amazing. This book engendered many reactions from me.
I had never heard of Laura Clery. Prior to reading the book, I looked up her "See Helen Smash" videos mentioned on the front of her book. They are funny. I immediately became a fan and spent valuable reading time watching YouTube videos. The book is funny also.
I laughed several times. Clery's humor is my type of humor. Clery tells the story of growing up, wanting to be an actress, moving to LA and NY, her battle with drugs and an abusive relationship, This book engendered many reactions from me.
Clery tells the story of growing up, wanting to be an actress, moving to LA and NY, her battle with drugs and an abusive relationship, her struggle with becoming an actress, struggling to get jobs, struggling to get clean, and then with making original content on YouTube.
Clery is a great writer and her story is raw and true. She narrates the audiobook which adds greatly to the book. This is the only book I've read about heavy drug use and addiction that didn't become repetitive, numbing, and almost bragging about that time of their life. Cleary kept the feeling flowing through this book. The entire book is similarly charged. I got robbed, man.
Bad translation. The review stops here. View all 41 comments. Oct 27, Paul Bryant rated it really liked it Shelves: novels , russian-lit. This guy is on a morning train to St Petersburg.
He knows nobody there. He has no money and no possessions. If Dostoyevsky was a 21st This guy is on a morning train to St Petersburg. If Dostoyevsky was a 21st century writer he would be so rich writing scripts for shows like Desperate Housewives or Days of Our Lives because one thing he was was a natural born soap opera scriptwriter.
There are two strong female leads Nastasya and Aglaya , both of whom can bring men to their knees with a single glance, and this leads to many complications. And say yes to one and let the other one ride?
There's so many changes and tears you must hide. Did you ever have to finally decide? It may be a bit spoilerish but you will have forgotten it before you get round to reading this but these two women finally meet in a showdown that is a 19th century Russian version of the one in A Fistful of Dollars.
It's a great scene, one of many. Also, I should mention one great scene where Nastasya rips a whip out of some nasty guy's hands and smashes his face with it People are gold medal standard haters : I hate you more than anything and anyone in the world!
I understood and hated you long ago, when I first heard about you, I hated you with all the hatred of my soul. And in general this translation was beautifully readable, as is the book itself. View all 17 comments. Did I ever think a day would come for me to say that I was disappointed in a work by Dostoevsky? A month ago I would have laughed at the very thought.
But a month later, I'm not laughing. I'm shocked to find that it is possible. And if it is possible to break your heart over a literary disappointment, I should say that I am brokenhearted. At present, I'm nursing my wound, so maybe this is not the right time to write a review. But at the same time I feel that if I do not write now, I never will Did I ever think a day would come for me to say that I was disappointed in a work by Dostoevsky? But at the same time I feel that if I do not write now, I never will.
I just want to finish everything connected with this book as quickly as possible; forget if I can the distressing reading experience I endured through a month. And I will cherish that Dostoevsky till the end of my days. On approaching the story, I went through the introductory notes in this particular edition. I read that Dostoevsky presents to us a Christ-like hero - an epitome of goodness and innocence; a pure, kind, and compassionate heart.
I read how his kindness, his compassion, his goodness, and his innocence being trampled on. I read how human innocence becomes victimized by a corrupted society. In short, I was about to read the story of a "holy fool". But to my utter dismay, Prince Myshkin was turned out to be not a "holy fool" but "a fool" - an idiot.
There is no irony there. The title has to be taken in its literary meaning. Dostoevsky has truly presented us with a complete idiot! This was a huge blow to my expectations. However, this fall in my expectation has nothing to do with Dostoevsky or his choice of the hero.
Authors have the right to choose over who they would make their hero. And choosing such a person as Prince Myshkin has originality. I totally lay down my disappointment on the introductory notes, which to me, misrepresented the whole story. It took some time for me to grasp what I have expressed in the previous paragraph. I didn't at first understand that Prince Myshkin was a complete idiot in a literary sense. I was at a loss as to how to understand him. Then only I realized what Dostoevsky meant.
The titular character really is what is meant by the word. Then came my disappointment so I had to lay low till I overcame that. I recommenced the read with a new mind to give heed to Prince Myshkin. But there again I was in for another disappointment, this time at the hand of Dostoevsky himself. It started alright with my knowledge that Prince Myshkin was simple-minded from his childhood and that he had a hard time comprehending things and struggled very much when learning.
On top of that, he was an epileptic too. From this perspective, I continued my read. But here too, my comprehension of this character failed due to many characteristic contradictions. He is said to be simple-minded but at the same time, he displayed a keen and rare intelligence. He was kind and compassionate, I agree, and to that extent pure. But there was some subtle cunning in him and at times I sensed there a calculating mind. And his actions which led to ruin the life of a young and trusting girl led me to totally despise him.
This didn't correspond with my notion of the character of Myshkin. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't understand nor connect with him. This really exhausted me to the point of annoyance, so much so that I was in indecision whether to continue or to abandon. Then again this was Dostoevsky after all so I decided to take repose. I took it up again determined to see through it to the end. This time I concentrated on Dostoevsky's portrayal of human psychology for I could fathom no proper plot on which the story developed save except the two "love triangles" if it may be called as such in which the Prince was the object in one and pursuer in the other.
I could honestly say that this unique feature of Dostoevsky, this portrayal of human psychology which he had adopted in all his works, is what saved this work. As always he has brilliantly done this.
Strong emotions such as love, obsession, jealousy, suspicion, and rage are so well portrayed that even though I didn't enjoy any other, I did enjoy that. I wasn't much impressed with the characters; definitely not with the "hero".
There were a couple of characters I felt real and liked but the majority were superficial. And Dostoevsky's writing although undeniably beautiful, was too verbose and unnecessarily so. Deciding on the rating was a struggle.
I wavered a lot over it but in the end, decided to do justice by me. View all 45 comments. Jul 18, Balu rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Absolutely everyone, this is a must read. Shelves: hall-of-fame-novels , dostoevsky. The best novel of all time written by the best author of all time. Full stop. I do not know how to review this one. View all 10 comments. This book disappointed me. I never thought I would be saying this with regard to a book by Dostoyevsky, but it's true.
Yet I was not merely unimpressed by this work, but was often greatly frustrated by it. To be concise, I found The Idiot to be a rambling mess. He is a writer with obvious flaws and with tremendous strengths. It is, therefore, incumbent on the reader to look past his demerits—his clunky dialogue, his exaggerated personalities, his slipshod plots—in order to appreciate his peculiar genius, if the reader is to get anything at all out of his works.
In this book, however, I found his usual deficiencies to be overabundant, and his usual brilliance to be pushed to the side. Let us take the protagonist. He is supposed to be a nearly perfect man, the very picture of benevolence and kindness.
Yet I was not at all impressed with Prince Myshkin. He was a polite and amiable fellow, sure. But did he go very far out of his way to help others? Was he capable of doing any good? Was he busying himself in improving the world? Not at all. Rather, Myshkin comes off as rather bumbling and self-absorbed. But the impression I was left with was not of a kind man tragically taken advantage of, but a man who was simply incapable of dealing with the world; a man not overly virtuous, but simply inept.
Prince Myshkin is something of a Quixotic character—a bit of a dunderhead, a bit of a loon—except that he is tragic, whereas the Don is comic. It seems that Dostoyevsky vaguely wanted to write a genuine burlesque, with a witless protagonist suffering misadventure after misadventure in the real world. But of course, Dostoyevsky turns this general idea into a distorted nightmare that very often borders on absurdity. All of them act erratically, often to the point that they are unrecognizable one scene to the next.
They suffer acute changes of mood and opinion, veering from emotion to emotion too quickly for the reader to even keep up. But in this work, I found it to be so overdone as produce a kind of apathy in me. Perhaps what I most regretted about this design, however, was not the shoddy characterization, but how it forced Dostoyevsky to deal with his typical themes.
Instead of putting his always arresting philosophical speeches into the mouths of major characters, several minor characters butt into the story in order to deliver lengthy and, from the perspective of the story, rather pointless harangues that are promptly swept to the side. So instead of the critique of modern society, nihilism, rationalism, and his analysis of the decline of religion being in the forefront, these themes are peripheral, which I think is a shame.
This is not to mention the several incidents that Dostoyevsky introduces apparently only to stretch the page-count he was being paid by the page. This enormous amount of space dedicated to side issues is especially perplexing when one considers that major plot developments are, by contrast, introduced willy-nilly without much ado—such as when Prince Myshkin simply announces, in the midst of a major scene, that he has inherited a large sum of money.
To cut short this review, I found this to be a deeply flawed book, one that obviously needed several more drafts before it could be really compelling. I am still giving it three stars, however, because there are occasional brilliant flashes. Yet these shining moments were overshadowed by the many pages of tedium.
One of my friends is a big fan of Dostoyevsky, and he says this book is his favorite. But until my eyes are opened to this book's secret merit, I will steer those who ask to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov , which are not merely occasionally brilliant, but splendid from beginning to end.
View all 30 comments. Written shortly after 'Crime and Punishment', it seems like Dostoevsky wanted to invert Raskolnikov. Instead of a mad killer, Prince Myshkin the 'Idiot' is an innocent saint, a positive, a beautiful soul and holy fool motivated by helping those around him. He is a Christ in an un-Christian world, a tortured Don Quixote.
Dostoevsky is able to use Prince Myshkin's spiritual intelligence and Rogozhin's passion to illuminate the main problems and idocyncrasies of Russian society. But the story still falls a bit short of perfection.
It literally falls between 'Crime and Punishment' and 'Brothers Karamazov'; failing to achieve the simple greatness of 'Crime and Punishment' and the complex greatness of 'Brothers Karamazov'. Like Myshkin himself, the novel's intent is nearly perfect, but the execution is just a little off, a little unstable. That doesnt mean I didn't love it. As a novel I adored it. I was both taken by and frustrated with Prince Myshkin.
Perhaps my favorite parts of this novel fall into the scenes where Dostoevsky is focused on a painting or an execution. He isn't content with a superficial look at the world. He examines things for depth and poignance that actually left me shaking.
He studies Holbein's grotesque 'The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb' with a patient, detailed eye that at once appears to capture the whole life and death of Christ.
He describes the beheading of John the Baptist; looking for details of his face in that still and eternal second before his execution. In this Dostoevesky is recreating his own near execution and the horror and magnificence that death or a near death in Dostoevsky's case brings to a person's fragile, beautiful and flawed life.
View all 8 comments. Shelves: continental-european , psychological-drama , nineteenth-century , russian. Are there countries in the world which are more likely to produce depressing literature than others? If so, Russia must be pretty much top of the list.
I have yet to read a Russian novel which ends well for all the protagonists. I can only think of a few in which things end well for even a few of the protagonists. And Dostoyevsky of course loves his tragedies.
The Idiot is one of them. While it's not as tragic as, say, Crime and Punishment , nearly all of its protagonists come to a sticky end, an Are there countries in the world which are more likely to produce depressing literature than others? While it's not as tragic as, say, Crime and Punishment , nearly all of its protagonists come to a sticky end, and as always, they meet plenty of drama and intrigue on their way there.
And it's all classical Russian drama and intrigue, which is to say it's full of passion, obsession, sudden mood swings, tantrums and hysterical fits. In short, The Idiot is a book full of histrionics, but I love it, because for one thing, there's something grand about all those huge emotions, and for another, Dostoyevsky is such a good writer that he gets away with making his characters behave like Greek gods.
Every time I read a book of his, I come away wishing he had written his own version of Greek mythology. I'm sure it would have been an astonishing read. As for the book at hand, it's a book about society -- more specifically, about a modern society that is so corrupt and materialistic that a good man simply cannot survive in it.
In The Idiot , that good man is Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin, who has spent most of his life in a Swiss hospital because of his epileptic fits, and now returns to the country of his youth.
Needless to say, there are those who dismiss him as an inconsequential figure or try to take advantage of him, but he also wins over a lot of people with his innate goodness and refusal to think ill of others.
He's a Christ-like figure, but was Christ allowed to live in the society he lived in? He wasn't, and neither, sadly enough, is Myshkin, one of Dostoyevsky's more likeable protagonists. Because Russia, to which Dostoyevsky devotes some choice paragraphs, is too jaded for people like him -- too corrupt and too, well, Russian. But The Idiot is not just a novel about a corrupt society. Ultimately and this is probably why I like it so much it's about love. About the different ways in which people love each other.
About loving out of pity. About loving against reason. About mad, obsessive, possessive love. About angry love. About humiliating love. About corrupting love and the fear of love. About the things people do for love, the mistakes they make in the name of love, and the love they simply fail to notice because their eyes are directed elsewhere. At the heart of the book is a fascinating love triangle or is it a quadrangle? It doesn't have a happy-ever-after ending, but there's something terrifically grand and romantic about the ways in which the various lovers end, and I like that.
It's realism with a dose of Romanticism with a capital R, and it works. As always, Dostoyevsky's characterisation is superb. Many of the characters are larger than life, yet you somehow believe them, because let's face it, Russia is the kind place that could spawn these people, isn't it? By and large, the characters are well drawn, and if many of them are either unsympathetic or a tad capricious, so be it. There is enough passion, grandstanding and back-stabbing going on between them to keep things interesting, and plenty of twisted love, too.
The only thing I dislike about Dostoyevsky and the one reason why I'm not giving The Idiot five stars is his tendency to go off on tangents just when something exciting is about to happen. In The Idiot , he relates the events of an evening, tells us that the hero will have a secret and obviously important meeting with the girl he loves in the morning, and then, rather than relating the events of the next morning in the next chapter, proceeds to spend four chapters some sixty pages altogether telling the reader what happens at the Prince's house late at night, none of which has anything to do with the upcoming meeting with the girl.
I'm sure I'm not the only reader who felt cheated there. Other than the tangents, though, Dostoyevsky is a superb writer, and The Idiot is as fine an example of classic Russian literature as you're likely to find anywhere provided you like long dialogue and slightly mad characters. I'd give it 4. And for those of you who care about translations: I read the Bantam version by Constance Garnett and was quite happy with it.
View all 15 comments. Aug 03, William2 rated it it was ok Shelves: fiction , ce , russia , translation , do-not-own. Here's Dostoyevski's mode of proceeding, and it's maddening. One, here's what I'm about to tell you; two, now here I am actually telling it to you; and three, now let's review what I've just told you.
Every point is handled thus. The tedium! Nevertheless, it's D so I forced myself to read most of it. In the end the book fell heavily from my hands and I woke. Oct 23, Sidharth Vardhan rated it it was amazing Shelves: list-world-library , 7-russian , list-guardian , bestest , list The tragedy of being too good An ideal idiot Most of my favorite characters are either pure evil or complex anti-hero type; the stereotype Mr.
Goody-two-shoes has never appealed to me; however Prince Muishkin, the idiot in the novel, is now going to be an exception. He has suffered from idiocy due to epilepsy FD too suffered from epilepsy attacks all his childhood and early youth. If you try to insult or hurt him; he would feel sorry for circumstances that made you do so; and let you cheat him. It is not so much that he doesn't notice or can't defend the harm done to himself but rather he prefers to suffer himself rather than bring on others - even if others are sinister in their ways.
He has no sense of social class - he could talk in the same way with servants or master, grownups or children. He lets you make fun of him — often himself joining the lough himself.
He got into a fight twice within novel, and both times it was to defend someone. A loved idiot Thus it is easier for you to make fun of him; but you will do it at your own peril; his turn-the-other-cheek attitude is bound to find your love sooner or later.
Even those who try to cheat on him end up loving him. A third reason for which he attracts attention is curiosity. Thus while people under-rate him in beginning; soon they all end up respecting him - in a way.
They adopt him, pet him, forgive him all mistakes and want him to do well in life; because of his absolute inability to harm anyone. Lizaveta likes him but do not want him to marry her daughter to him - knowing that his goodness won't let him survive him for long in the world. Well, in being good to everyone, he ends up hurting her.
P's reaction upon seeing painting is here: "The prince glanced at it, but took no further notice. He moved on hastily, as though anxious to get out of the house. But Rogozhin suddenly stopped underneath the picture. That picture! FD's wife note how she had to take him away from this painting as she was afraid he would get one of his attacks. While P. There are other important distances between two, unlike Prince, Jesus was not shocked upon discovery the barbarity prevalent in the world.
Jesus was, IMO, more assertive too and at least once got angry. Prince's complete lack of aggressiveness is completely contrasted by Rogozhin, Dostoyevsky's idea of anti-Christ.
And this anti-Christ isn't pure evil but someone who can't stand the idea of being cheated upon. A person lacking ability to forgive is all that Dostoyevsky's idea of evil.
However Dostoyevsky goes one step further making Prince and Rogozhin friends. In the end, Prince's couldn't defeat the anti-Christ in Rogozhin and his own compassion became his doom.
FD makes P. View all 14 comments. Jul 09, Apatt rated it really liked it Shelves: classics. It took me five months and four days to finish this book, I think I took longer reading War and Peace but that is a longer book. Was it worth it? When I started reading this book I had a feeling that this is probably Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's most lighthearted book, not that I am an expert on his works, I only read Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov neither of which are a great source of hilarity.
The early chapters are indeed lighthearted and often funny but the tone becomes increasingly grim towards the end. How do I summarize a novel like this in one paragraph? There are so many plots and subplots, boatloads of characters with incredibly long names, complex motivations, and dialogue that is sometimes interminable.
Petersburg at the beginning of the book after spending four years in Switzerland being treated for epilepsy. Upon his arrival, he meets various colorful—almost Dickensian—characters, seeks out his distant relations and becomes involved with two women from opposite social spectrums. Throughout the narrative, he generally tries to be nice to everybody, to his own detriment and even those he tries to be nice to! Like most of the characters in the book, I took an instant liking to Prince Myshkin, a compassionate, quirky, funny, awkward, and very insightful character; indeed, a man too good for this world.
After finishing the book I read up a bit on the background of its creation. In a sense, it is a thought experiment, and the result is quite surprising. Is it worth reading though? For the litfic fans of intellectual tomes it is a no-brainer, well, more like a yes-brainer I suppose. What about the less well cerebrally endowed individuals like yours truly? Would an idiot enjoy reading The Idiot?
Not for the amplitude of philosophical, religious and political themes to mull over, just to read the damn thing from beginning to end and see what happen, which is generally how I approach leisure reading. There is no simple answer that I can offer. As Dostoyevsky explores his various themes tedium can set in at times.
There is a chapter where an irritating character called Hippolyte reads out an account of his not very interesting life and thoughts that almost had me giving up on the book; for someone named like a polite hippo he is not very charming. On a positive note whenever the narrative focuses on Myshkin it is never dull, whatever he does or says is always of some interest and I was fully invested in his fate.
I had no idea where Dostoyevsky was going with the way the plot was developing. Myshkin is far from being the only character of interest, several characters spring to vivid, vibrant life whenever they appear, especially the two ladies Myshkin has so much trouble with.
I cannot recommend it unequivocally, it does depend on how patient you are and what you want from a book. I am not a particularly patient or even discerning reader but I consider the time reading this book well spent. Note: I read half the book in audiobook format, and the remaining in print on Kindle. The reason is that I always read Librivox audiobooks because they are all free, the only snag is while some are great, others are not.
The Idiot Part 01 and 02 is wonderfully read by Martin Geeson thank you , with plenty of nuances and all the different character voices you could want.
The only problem is that this is only half the book. I am one and you are the other, and therefore both of us suffer, both of us are unhappy. Dear Lord, help me to keep going. Yeah, right, I'm finally done with reading this but did my prayers pay off? I know deciding to pick this up as my first Dostoesvesky read was nothing less than a stunt but I think the only reason why I read this one was because I've always wanted to. I guess I was back then, when I was given this b Dear Lord, help me to keep going.
I guess I was back then, when I was given this by the owner and I remember getting excited and all because even then I loved reading fat books. Anyway, years back I tried reading this but I couldn't have gone any further than the first chapter's train scene, cut to today, I think towards the end of this book, I was so anxious, I literally prayed for this book to reach towards the end.
I get jitters just by thinking how can someone even write this much of freaking shit load of drama? I mean no offense to Dostoevsky, but Kudos, man! I feel like I've been robbed. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Summary Read our full plot summary and analysis of The Idiot , scene by scene break-downs, and more.
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