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RE: The Idiot
I am starting to read the book again :)
Interesting to consider how little time we have to spend on such luxuries as reading novels.
I agree with your man that the attention span has greatly reduced. I see it especially with school students, and they teach the teachers here that you shouldn't expect any more than a minute per age. 12 years old=twelve minutes of any one sustained activity. 8 years old=8 minutes and so on, but even that seems a stretch in today's world.
I like what you're sharing from the Buddhist perspective, "If you just find admiration and inspiration in one, you may find awakening as idiots"!
I'm going to write that one down and tape it to the wall!
I've also struggled to get properly into a Dostoyevsky novel, which irks me because he is so renowned.There great site: LoyalBooks that offers free audiobooks of works outside copyright, all read by volunteers.
It's a great place for classics. In terms of attention span, though, audiobooks do seem to put people (me included) to sleep..... which is ok by me. It just takes quite a while to actually make progress in the story..
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Sounds like a good way--listening. Makes me happy to hear I'm not the only one who's had trouble engaging in his books!