Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

79 reviews

hannahchristine's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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

4.25

It took a while to get through it and follow the events especially since the amount of different names all the characters had made it even more complicated. I'm very glad I read it though and I did like the way and tone the story was told in, very distant and blunt I'd say. I'm not sure I completely got the point and the moral of the story but I did get something out of it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Mental illness

arealhuman's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Pedophilia and Racism

brianjohnson4's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

One of the most captivating, masterfully written accounts of loneliness, paranoia, and the mind’s fragility ever written. It gives language to the  indescribable range of emotions that haunt us all as we question our decisions and live with their aftermath. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

lordofdisorder's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism

smoooty's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

My favorite book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

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, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Antisemitism, and Murder

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

Minor: Terminal illness, Antisemitism, and Grief

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, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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