I just finished reading the brothers Karamazov for the first time. It was really an incredible book and maybe the most enjoyable one I've ever read.
The grand inquisitor chapter changed my mind about the existence of God. The earlier chapters were equally hilarious and educational about the nature of faith in a secular society. The later chapters had me gripped because the main characters were so fully fleshed out yet developing and having epiphanies on every page.
What did you love about the book? How many times have you read it? Seriously, every chapter could be expanded in to an entire book about either psychology or philosophy. It was that profound.
Luis Cooper
>The grand inquisitor chapter changed my mind about the existence of God In what ways?
Jordan Scott
One of my personal favorites. I read it numerous times, so much so I read P&V translation, Garnett's and one by Andrew R. McAndrew, the last translator is more modern and easy to read. Out of the whole book the chapter of Elder Zosima's Life really hit me. I didn't expect that a fictional character could be so real, and from time to time I read that chapter in it's entirety. Here's a passage from that chapter I like;
>For all men in our age are separated into units, each seeks seclusion in his own hole, each withdraws from the others, hides himself, and hides what he has, and ends by pushing himself away from people and pushing people away from himself.
Aaron Hill
Great book, didnt make me a christcuck tho, the memories of that old monk were my favorite part of the book.
Liam Hernandez
I most strongly recall Dmitri's suicidal drinking bout. Still gives me the howling fantods.
Charles Nguyen
Dmitri is such a beautiful character
Blake Morgan
>le christcuck meme
Chase Watson
Care too shed some light on the eternal 'p&v is shit' discussion often seen on here? I've only read the p&v translation and thought it was an amazing book.
Eli Morris
what translation should i read
Zachary Rogers
What was the point of the girl in the wheelchair, can't even remember her name.
Jonathan Hughes
Showing Aliosha's fetish of choice, Dosto explained it in the Joe Rogan show
Robert Allen
There is a half-legend that the book was supposed to be only the first part of a trilogy, and that in the latter parts Alyosha would become a narodnik revolutionary terrorist.
Liam Jones
>The grand inquisitor chapter changed my mind about the existence of God. damn i need to read this then. i want to kill myself but i'm too afraid to because i don't believe in an afterlife. if i can find a good reason to believe in god again i can finally end my suffering.
Hunter Jenkins
To show the corrupting power of Ivan's atheism
Julian Torres
You do know where suicides go, right? If you do kys you'd be better off if there isn't an afterlife.
Blake James
Read the entire book
Charles Jackson
Learn Cyrillic
Xavier Gomez
but it's so long
Andrew Morales
not really
Jack Peterson
isnt it almost 1000 pages long
David White
>not reading at least 2000 pages a day
what are you even doing here?
Andrew Green
What is Veeky Forums final verdict on which English translation is the best so I can avoid it?
Brody James
ruining my life
Jacob Lewis
Avsey > McDuff > P&V From the ones I've read.
Isaac Roberts
I'm about 60 pages from the ending and I'm already planning on reading it again. First time through to get familiar with the characters, plot and obvious themes, then a second/third/fourth time through to get deep into the ideas and meaning behind it all.
It's been insane reading it, even without trying to analyze the philosophical and psychological themes in each chapter, it managed to change the way I think of religion/Christianity. I'd always thought of it as joining a kind of group-think mentality that told you what to think, but The Grand Inquisitor, the chapter on Father Ferapont and the life of Zosima showed me that it can be a deeply personal thing.
I also liked the Ferapont chapters (And others that deal with this idea) especially because of how the tied in with Dostoevsky's own ideas towards organized religion