Wow! A slightly different book than I've been used to so far.
I chose this one because I had run out of books to listen to and I didn't have any time to go to the library. There are thousands of free audio books online that have been released into the public domain, so I found one that ended up on many people's top 100 list.
Without looking at any details I had in my head the movie 'The Brothers Bloom' (probably because I'd just watched 'Now you see me' with Mark Ruffalo (one of my favorite actors see tangent)) so my expectations were slightly off.
I'm 3 books into this and I'm still not really sure what the plot is. It's has mainly been character development. Each time a major new person is mentioned a chapter is devoted to showing you who they are. This is a pretty good format, it is still, however, difficult to follow people because each one is called by many different names. For example, one of the main people you follow is Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov but is also called Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Alyoshechka, Alxeichick, Lyosha, Lyoshenka. Confusing??
So far we have had a number of monologues about various things, God comes up quite a lot as you would expect when you put an atheist and a Hedonist in with a bunch of monks. I feel like something is building and perhaps going to happen between Fyodor and Dimitri who are both after the same woman. Quite a few people hate each other so I also expect some violence at some point as well. Hopefully something will happen soon before I get bored with 'one of the best novels ever written'.
I'll finish this review when I finish the book.
Without looking at any details I had in my head the movie 'The Brothers Bloom' (probably because I'd just watched 'Now you see me' with Mark Ruffalo (one of my favorite actors see tangent)) so my expectations were slightly off.
I'm 3 books into this and I'm still not really sure what the plot is. It's has mainly been character development. Each time a major new person is mentioned a chapter is devoted to showing you who they are. This is a pretty good format, it is still, however, difficult to follow people because each one is called by many different names. For example, one of the main people you follow is Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov but is also called Alyosha, Alyoshka, Alyoshenka, Alyoshechka, Alxeichick, Lyosha, Lyoshenka. Confusing??
I had to make this family tree/ key to really understand what was going on. 
So far we have had a number of monologues about various things, God comes up quite a lot as you would expect when you put an atheist and a Hedonist in with a bunch of monks. I feel like something is building and perhaps going to happen between Fyodor and Dimitri who are both after the same woman. Quite a few people hate each other so I also expect some violence at some point as well. Hopefully something will happen soon before I get bored with 'one of the best novels ever written'.
I'll finish this review when I finish the book.
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