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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
Rating: 2.5/5
Finished July 30th, 2025
okay, look. I get what it was trying to say, I even understood it all in what it was trying to convey. And maybe it was the specific translation I had, and maybe the ending saved the score a little tiny bit since I was originally going to give it a straight up 2. BUT...
I could not enjoy this. I rushed to finish this because I was not a fan and wanted to read something else. The writing is loaded, by a heavy hand for sure. Every character has some form of insanity to them, it almost seems like he can't write a sane character. I was even bored most of the time, and people, as I've seen, love to claim that if you don't like it you just don't get it but I mean, what's not to get? And the deeper you get the more of a message it tries to convey to you, but it almost seems like too little, too late.
at the end of the day, I guess it just wasn't my taste. maybe I'll reread a different version in a decade or two but for now, I'm glad I got through it.
p.s. shout out to Razumikhin my goat fr, ride or die!
Finished July 30th, 2025
okay, look. I get what it was trying to say, I even understood it all in what it was trying to convey. And maybe it was the specific translation I had, and maybe the ending saved the score a little tiny bit since I was originally going to give it a straight up 2. BUT...
I could not enjoy this. I rushed to finish this because I was not a fan and wanted to read something else. The writing is loaded, by a heavy hand for sure. Every character has some form of insanity to them, it almost seems like he can't write a sane character. I was even bored most of the time, and people, as I've seen, love to claim that if you don't like it you just don't get it but I mean, what's not to get? And the deeper you get the more of a message it tries to convey to you, but it almost seems like too little, too late.
at the end of the day, I guess it just wasn't my taste. maybe I'll reread a different version in a decade or two but for now, I'm glad I got through it.
p.s. shout out to Razumikhin my goat fr, ride or die!
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What is a crime? What should be the punishment? It's dark, but I've fallen in love with this story. The main character does something very, very bad--a crime, you might say--and Dostoevsky gives you the disturbing privilege of not simply sympathizing but truly empathizing with him. You will feel the crime, and oh, you will feel the punishment. I recognize that that is not a necessarily enticing pitch, but I hope you hop on the Crime and Punishment train when you're up for it! I found the message genuinely profound, the writing compelling, and the story quite gripping.
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Meu novo hiperfoco.
Minha cabeça não parou por um segundo durante a leitura. Provoco:
É uma fotografia da insanidade, pobreza e doença dos anos 1860, verdade. Mas fiz um paralelo com o novo século e o jargão de direita “bandido bom, é bandido morto” que dizem com convicção. Viajo na provocação?
Raskolnikov: insosso, pedante e … sim, burro. Não intelectualmente, claro, mas burro, desprovido de sagacidade.
Não torci pra ele em nenhum momento.
Vi niilismo, existencialismo muito antes de serem ideias consolidadas.
Pasmem, vi feminismo também. Estou maluca? Lebeziatnikov, o querido que fez uma pra deus ver ao desmentir Lujin e defender Sonia, sabe? Claro, feminista, mas de um jeito que muitas vezes parece cômico ou superficial. Retrato das pessoas que adotavam ideologias progressistas na época sem compreendê-las completamente. Seria o esquerdo-macho do século 19?
Enfim, acho que é a primeira review longa que escrevo - e que decido levar um tiquinho a sério.
Gostei.
Pronta para o próximo Dostoevsky.
Minha cabeça não parou por um segundo durante a leitura. Provoco:
É uma fotografia da insanidade, pobreza e doença dos anos 1860, verdade. Mas fiz um paralelo com o novo século e o jargão de direita “bandido bom, é bandido morto” que dizem com convicção. Viajo na provocação?
Raskolnikov: insosso, pedante e … sim, burro. Não intelectualmente, claro, mas burro, desprovido de sagacidade.
Não torci pra ele em nenhum momento.
Vi niilismo, existencialismo muito antes de serem ideias consolidadas.
Pasmem, vi feminismo também. Estou maluca? Lebeziatnikov, o querido que fez uma pra deus ver ao desmentir Lujin e defender Sonia, sabe? Claro, feminista, mas de um jeito que muitas vezes parece cômico ou superficial. Retrato das pessoas que adotavam ideologias progressistas na época sem compreendê-las completamente. Seria o esquerdo-macho do século 19?
Enfim, acho que é a primeira review longa que escrevo - e que decido levar um tiquinho a sério.
Gostei.
Pronta para o próximo Dostoevsky.
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
5 stars for Raskolnikov’s story. But overall 4 (why are characters in classic russian lit so prone to hysteria???)
Que libro más bueno, demasiado bien ejecutado, Dostoyevsky era una mente maestra. Voy a seguir pensando en este libro por harto tiempo.
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hi :)
This was a very solid trip. Never in my life did I expect, that I would be reading this book for fun and then having opinions on it, but here I am.
This is, honestly, a pretty great book. Everything, technically, centers on Raskolnikov, who commit a crime and then suffers a punishment (see what I did there?). Throughout his story, we discover many other stories of people surrounding him and how they attempt to live their lives in the rather dramatic climate of Saint Petersburg of 19th century. It's a story of depression, what man does due to it and what the people around him might do to try and help him.
This was great, I will probably be back to reread it on russian (in like 15 years), but yeah, good read, go commit to it and have fun with it, that is what classics are for.
Oh, and yeah, fuck Svidrigailov.
This was a very solid trip. Never in my life did I expect, that I would be reading this book for fun and then having opinions on it, but here I am.
This is, honestly, a pretty great book. Everything, technically, centers on Raskolnikov, who commit a crime and then suffers a punishment (see what I did there?). Throughout his story, we discover many other stories of people surrounding him and how they attempt to live their lives in the rather dramatic climate of Saint Petersburg of 19th century. It's a story of depression, what man does due to it and what the people around him might do to try and help him.
This was great, I will probably be back to reread it on russian (in like 15 years), but yeah, good read, go commit to it and have fun with it, that is what classics are for.
Oh, and yeah, fuck Svidrigailov.