The Karamazov Brothers

I am sorry I left writing this post for so long. I finished reading this book in February and it is now October. As a result, I no longer have as fresh a memory of the story as I would have if I had written about it back in February. I do stand by my three-star rating. It was a good book. But there was something missing for it to be great. What I most appreciated about the book was the fact that it serves as a record proving that wrongly incriminating a person is a phenomenon whose existence dates back ages ago. Of course The Karamazov Brothers was first published in 1880, but I am sure there are much older books that deal with this topic. It is a shame that we never got the sequel to the story. I want to believe that I would have liked to see Dmitri vindicated. But even if he was not vindicated in the eyes of society, then what I would have liked perhaps even more is to see him overcome his grossly undeserved condemnation and thrive in life in spite of it. Maybe I do like this book more than I want to admit. At least in retrospect I admire it much more.