A kind of Blog Chain letter...

This was taken from Mike at Rhetoric and Rhythm :

(A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie
2. a book
3. a musical artist, song, or album

(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.

(C) Then I want you to go to your blog/journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything & say that you stole it from me.

The previous post (below) is a question that has stayed with me ever since I attempted to read 'The Idiot' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

In the book, the main character asks that question. I say attempted to read it, because I never was able to finish the book. So I don't know if the question was ever really answered.

When I started the book, I was in my late teens and it was a particularly difficult read for me. I only picked up the book because I had thoroughly enjoyed 'Crime and Punishment'.
The fact that I gave up reading the book is particularly disconcerting for me because I have only had two experiences where I tried to read something (prose) that was beyond me. 'The Idiot' was one, while the other was 'Worlds In Collision', by Immanuel Velikovsky which I tried to read before I made it to those teen years.

I've still got both books though with bookmarks still in them. Just waiting for me to continue where I left off. So maybe one day I'll pass them on to someone else.