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Okay, now let me read to you a tweet about the subject of today's episode. This is from, I mean, you know, I would say a friend of mine, somebody that I only know through Twitter and it's a pseudonymous account.

So the name is, I guess not important, but this is somebody who says I tried for six months to read that novel. I had printouts on the characters, the plot points, the themes, but the chapter on the dead priest and his whole backstory killed my motivation.

And I'm reading that because I think it's representative of a very common experience with this novel that I'm talking about today and that is the brothers.

Caramazov. This is Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky's I think it's his greatest novel. You may disagree.

And many people as you can tell, obviously do. I've been interested. So I've been rereading this novel because I'm going to a conference about it.

And when I go to that conference, I'll come back with some more thoughts on it. But I've been rereading it and just deeply moved by it.

I read it in high school and sort of, you know, it took note of it as a great work of literature, but hadn't really encountered it in any serious way since then.

And this time around, you know, it's since I've become a Christian, since I've, I think, read a little bit more and understood the kind of historical context within which Dostoevsky was operating.

This time it really struck me and it's one of those books. It seems that you either have one of two reactions to either it just absolutely breaks your brain, you know, completely blows your mind and you're really into it and people love this novel, as I said, it's regarded pretty widely regarded, I think, his greatest work.

And then there are a lot of people, people who love to read, people who take care like this person did, you know, to pay close attention to everything that's going on. And it just they just can't get into it.

I've talked to a lot of folks as I've been reading this novel. People I know to be, you know, highly intelligent that are capable of reading very advanced texts who just not this thing like it destroyed me. I'm sorry. Like I give up, you know.

And it is this big sprawling text it was published serially as novels were in this period between the years of 1879 and 1880.

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