This is one of these books that are very irritating and very fascinating at once, which is a bewitching thing. I cannot stop reading it but while i am reading it, i am kind of freaked out by many passages. But i think it is kind of important to read stuff like this, where the protagonist does so many bad and weird things but you still kind of understand him. You know why he has to do what he does. And this is so irritating and that may be a reason for some people to hate that book - but i like it. And nice flowery russian writing style.