In Progress: The Brothers Karamazov

I've been posting my thoughts on books that I've actually finished. This is just a progress report on a book I've been reading for some months--between other reading projects. It's Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I was supposed to read it in college, but [gasp!] didn't. I'm about 30% of the way into it, and so far I've not really bonded with any of the characters. Not one of them. It doesn't bode well.

I'm sticking with it for the time being, however. With Russian literature, persistence is sometimes necessary. It took me several false starts to get through Anna Karenina, and I'm glad I didn't give up.