That is how he started to read Dostoyevsky.

No doubt there were other Jews who read Dostoyevsky in Russian and decided that they themselves must be Christian.

For certain epochs people read Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy.

"Did you ever read Dostoyevsky?"

"He liked the ocean but hated the beach," reads "Dostoyevsky in Wildwood."

(He had written that he would see a lot of art, read Dostoyevsky, buy a dog and propose to someone.)

The character Reznik is shown reading Dostoyevsky's The Idiot early in the film.

On his decision to embrace Islam, Mr. Rushdie said he had recently been reading Dostoyevsky.

"I want to end this addiction to love," says this young man, who reads Dostoyevsky and rides a motorcycle, "but I'm too weak."

Returning to his own porch, he settled down there and went back to reading Dostoyevsky.