The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Aw man this was a good book. Long as hell but good. And this copy I read from felt good in my hands, like the material of the book was dense and smooth. Made it comfortable to hold and get through. The Idiot follows a prince who returns to Russia at age 27. He’s also about to inherit some money. Previously, he was getting treatment for being deemed an idiot and was now mostly okay. People around him think he’s dumb but also wise. Really honest and decent. He is definitely a passionate and overexcited type of guy. He gets involved in a lot of interpersonal matters over the course of the book. The prince meets the main love interest on the first day basically. He sees Nastasya’s photo and then she shows up at the front door of where he’s visiting. He is in love with her beauty and her wildness and she likes him too but she’s a mess. She later agrees to marry him on a whim, leaving the guy who she’s with who is a killer and will likely kill her, only to cancel on the prince minutes later