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I am a big fan of Russian literature and have read multiple Russian literature criticisms. Thus, I was intrigued by Batuman's book and thus decided to give it a shot. By the time I finished the book I was simply frustrated and angry with the author. Part of the book title's says "Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them" - there is nothing of adventure or originality in this book. I am even close to calling this book a plagiarism as for the most part what the author did was to translate Russian critics into English and stamp her name on it. At times she put other people's thoughts in quotation marks and introduced some simple stories from her travel and seminars but that's about it. She just summarizes some of the Russian most popular books such as Dostoyevsky's "Daemons" - I do not see what is the point of summarizing a few story lines and then putting them together as a book. It seems like Batuman just wanted to publish a book and for not having good ideas of her own decided to ride on previously written books and her graduate seminars and conferences. People are just better off reading the original texts in translation instead of wasting time on these simple summaries. This book was definitely a waste of my time and a slap in the face for respected literature critics.Get more detail about The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them.