Fuck it, I'm going to be honest here. I can't stand reading Dostoevesky. Call me a pleb, call me whatever the fuck you want, I simply can't stomach his books. I've read several of his books. Including The Idiot. When it comes to The Idiot, I did enjoyed the Don Quixote bits, but none of that can stop the blaring issues I have with this writer. ALL of the woman characters sound like fast talking, bumbling fools, with flabbergasted expressions and short reasonings.
At first I thought, "this has to be a mistake, maybe I'm mis-reading these female characters, they can't all be this poorly crafted." But nope, I decided to listen to several audio books to compare the woman characters with the readers, and sure enough, they all sounded the same in the audio readings.
As far as the deep, philosophical, or religious significance of Dostoevsky's work, I still feel it falls flat in comparison to other Russian Authors (or other authors authors in general).
Mishkin was interesting, but absolutely unbelievable at times. Some people compare him to a Christ like character, and to that I ask, "Did we even read the same book?"
Alyosha Karamazov is a similar character from his later book, The Brothers Karamazov. A probably more well refined version of Mishkin in many ways. It's true, TBK is his best work, but even that is still filled with the unbelievable annoying woman characters brought in with a wannabe Christ like figure and a philosophical antagonist of some kind.
People can say I'm a fuckin fool for not liking Dostoevsky's work, but whatever, I've actually sat down and read through several of his entire books left feeling no more or less having read it.
I think he is a meme author, and gets far more attention than he should.