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BigFatMeanie · 07-19-2008, 06:14 PM

Call me lowbrow, but I like Tolstoy better than Dostoevsky. D's books just seem to me to have no plot, no action. They are just pages and pages of the emotions and feelings of his characters. I plowed through the Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment and it took serious effort just to grind through them. Tolstoy has his slow parts but it just seemed like his books had a much better pace and tempo to them. War and Peace, in the top 20 of longest novels of all time in a latin or cyrillic alphabet, seemed like a faster read than both Bros. K and C&P.

07-19-2008, 06:14 PM	#1
BigFatMeanie Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: South Jordan Posts: 1,725	Tolstoy > Dostoevsky Call me lowbrow, but I like Tolstoy better than Dostoevsky. D's books just seem to me to have no plot, no action. They are just pages and pages of the emotions and feelings of his characters. I plowed through the Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment and it took serious effort just to grind through them. Tolstoy has his slow parts but it just seemed like his books had a much better pace and tempo to them. War and Peace, in the top 20 of longest novels of all time in a latin or cyrillic alphabet, seemed like a faster read than both Bros. K and C&P.