Book Review: The Brothers Karamazov

It turns out that I had little trouble keeping the characters straight. Maybe it helps that I've had practice with far more populous stories. Anyway, it had been a while since my last book written before the 20th century and even longer since my last translated book. This translation, by Constance Garnett, frequently uses or omits commas in unorthodox ways, but otherwise, it succeeds at conveying Fyodor Dostoevsky's skilled prose.

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Now I've picked up Jim Butcher's Furies of Calderon. Normally, I don't expect much of fantasies I first heard of via giveaway, but this one's pretty esteemed, and I've enjoyed Butcher before.