Reviews tagging 'Antisemitism'

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

66 reviews

cryptidstation's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Antisemitism and Domestic abuse

benasbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Murder, Misogyny, and Antisemitism

yozhik's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

It's well written. The characters are interesting; I wish the book had been about Katerina Ivanovna and Svidrigailov. It's also boring as hell and the ideas and values that Dostoyevsky promotes are terrible. For example, Sonya is equated as being equal in sin to Raskolnikov when he committed murder for no good reason and never felt remorse for it and Sonya

works as a prostitute so that her family may survive. How is trying to survive a sin?

Dostoyevsky also attempts to make some point about how Russians mistreat Germans and that's BAD, that's AWFUL, and then periodically uses the Russian equivalent of "kike" and cannot say a single good word about the Jewish ethnicity which is very ironic. 
All in all it's good to read if you like to think about philosophy and don't mind the Russian habit of ridiculously long sentences and don't care too much about plot-driven books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Violence

Moderate: Antisemitism and Alcoholism

onceuponatime's review against another edition

dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Raskolnikov's mental state, anxiousness and idea of greatness are quite interesting. 

He in the end rejects it because he failed to murder and rob without questioning himself and with connecting it to a greatness in his future that would justify it so he had no right to take such a step in the first place. I think the epilogue with his dream of a disease which makes people believe in their theories as true which cause in some way an armagedon and "life replacing theory" are amusing. 
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Even though the book is really long, while reading along to an audio book, I wasn't bored. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Antisemitism

aconfundityofcrows's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Confinement

Moderate: Death, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Antisemitism, Grief, and Terminal illness

b_caligari's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide attempt

Minor: Abandonment, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, and Infidelity