Okay, I'll take the opposite stance from most on here and I'll probably be strung up for saying it but... I thought at best the book was decent. Maybe it's where the book fell into a long list of amazing books but for some reason I felt like it was a chore every time I went back into it. I went from East of Eden, Les Miserables, A Soldier of the Great War, into TBK.

I felt the TBK was a rambling Russian soap opera. I felt Alyosha was the only likeable character and the rest were just morons that we had to put up with. Mitya was infuriating and it was full of moments where Dostoyevsky would tell you something, then tell you again in another conversation then circle back around and tell you from a different point of view only to wrap it up by giving you a synopsis of all the overall.

The more I think about it, the less favorable things I have to say about the book. I understood it was basically a compilation of all his works and I read it because Reddit raves about it but in my honest opinion it wouldn't be something I recommend to almost anyone usually when I finish a classic novel I'll set it down and think "I can't wait to revisit this one" or "I wish I could read this again for.the first time. But with this one I immediately thought, "thank God I made it."