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Misdaad en straf

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.16 AVERAGE


someday i will brutally murder someone in pure unadulterated rage, and the public will cry "why, raniya!? why did you do it?!" and i will say "raskolnikov is literally me fr" like every pseudointellectual teenage boy to ever live and pass of a heart attack right there

jokes aside, bit slow and not my favourite classic but i do find myself thinking about its messaging from time to time
dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

flew across world with this brick in my backpack. for the longest time this was my favorite book. i felt so smug reading this shit at school but it was soooo good. felt really schismatic and didn’t know much of the world at the time. 10/10 no notes. 
challenging dark tense medium-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
challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

There wasn’t really much of a plot, was there?

What there was a lot of was excruciatingly long rambling mono- and dialogues with unrealistic emotions and unexplainable character motivations and actions.

Did like the Ace Ventura scene at the funeral. And the cool cold sadistic pre-KGB cop. And the mom. Poor her.
dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wonder how it's still relatable in the 21st century. We as a human, collectively, have been able to improve ourselves. Dostoevsky would have been ashamed if he were alive. 
challenging dark tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Родя - малолетний дебил, Порфирий Петрович клёвый детектив кайнда Коломбо, Расчленинград - атмосферный.