Sean

I'm not going to attempt a review–the book's too big and I have only just finished it for the first time. I will confine myself to a few reactions.
1. I LOVE IT!
2. Dostoyevsky has written one of the world's great books.
3. I will be reading it again.
4. This is one of the most psychologically accurate, perceptive, and honest things I have read in a long time. Or ever.
5. I LOVE IT!
6. Everybody was right who told me to read it. I was wrong to wait so long.
7. Wow. I am, to be honest, speechless, so I will shut up for now. Maybe later I will be able to write intelligently about this book.
8. Thank you, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

I can actually draw now–a little bit–thanks to this book. I know I would be able to draw much better if I gave it some time and effort. I would have thought such a thing impossible before I opened this book. The author taught me how to stop and look at what is really there in front of me, not simply to rely on my ingrained symbolic representations of things.