Originally Posted by: iihollyThis actually brought up a question from me. I read The Idiot and absolutely adore that book. Its one of those I'll pick up from time to time and just read parts of it. Then I read The Gambler and well... it was a bit too much for me (I was reading The Picture of Dorian Gary at the same time so the combination kind of depressed me). Well since I like The Idiot is it a fair statement to say that I'd like Crime and Punishment as well?

Yes. I would think so. I would also recommend 'Diary of a Madman' by Nikoli Gogol. 'Notes from the Underground' -Dvostoyeski as well. (just for a laugh, follow that up with Woody Allen's parody 'Notes from the Overfed'.