is notes from the underground a good place to start?

I started there and it is imo

P&V

Personal preference, also depends on the literary experience you have.

I wouldn’t start with it, just because its first part and probably will be really confusing.

I’d start with a short story collection or C&P.

yup, picked that up and almost done with it

thank you my friend

Would you guys recommend the mcduff or p&v translation for the brothers karamazov?

Might be a bit of a mindfuck for an introduction, it really puts you in the writers head. Maybe The Idiot would be a nicer start. Check page 2 for a recommendation on which translations best

crime and punishment would be better easier to follow along with

Definitely agree with this.

Although I'd start with C&P, his most accessible work.

thank you my friend

Started Demons last night and I'm a couple of pages in but not really feeling it yet.

Normally Dostoyevsky books grab me immediately, but this one hasn't so far.

Read that the first 150 - 200 pages are difficult to get through and then it starts to get really good.

An inside joke between the people I know who have read it it's that it's the only book from him that they dropped because how boring and confusing it was.
Counting myself too.

Just finished Crime and Punishment

Hows it for you?

Watching the Italian White Nights adaptation tonight

I’m on part 6 what a journey it’s been, the book crushes

I really enjoyed it. The relationship between Raskolnikov & Sonya really took me out of nowhere, that Epilogue and ending was beautiful. Also Razumikhin is such a great character, absolute joy reading him.

i'll try White Nights sometime soon, hope is a good read... Tried Notes from Underground once but it didnt help me continue idk

i got crime & punishment and notes from underground

what should i read first?

C&P first. It’s a phenomenal novel which has far more of a conventional plot, as opposed to Notes from Underground which is far more philosophical, existential, and frankly very bleak.

Enjoy. C&P is one of those books, man. The Brothers K is my favourite Dostoevsky (and all time) novel, but the first third of Crime and Punishment which climaxes with the major event is just unbelievable writing into the human psyche.

thanks bro. looking forward to it!