Reviews - Crime and Punishment

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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.15 AVERAGE

irving94's review against another edition

4.25

hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

archonsdream's review against another edition

3.5

dark reflective 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

olaruandra2000's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A solid 4-star book. Keeps you engaged 100% throughout the book. Emphasised with the main character’s emotions but not with his motives or views on life. As an Eastern European I enjoyed the literal translation by P&V.

deanandomi's review against another edition

4.0

A few months ago, I saw crime and punishment on Umi's shelf and asked oh have you read that and she said not yet. But naturally because my friend is very smart and I want to be on her level I was like lemme keep this in my mind. Then this summer I was like hmmm what's a difficult classic so I can really challenge myself, and a lot of people said crime and punishment. my dad also told me he read it when he was in uni so naturally I wanted to also get on his level. Anyway I thought I'd struggle reading this but I actually finished it in like 4 days, and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I think people struggle with this because holy mother of yap. but honestly dostoyevsky writes stories the same way I tell them (aka it takes him a while to get to the point) but I enjoyed it lol like who doesn't love like 20 pages of backstory. He also does this thing where for like 50 pages he'll refer to a character by their government name and then like halfway through the book start referring to them as their nickname, and also all these Russian mfks names are hella similar so sometimes I was like whois this????. The story itself is very interesting and delves into like the concept of guilt and morality when crimes are committed and how ones own guilt can lead them to their own downfall. It's also quite funny at times, and Umi finally read it shortly after I did and we talked about which character we were and she said im NATASYA???. LITERALLY THE MOST IRRELEVANT CHARACTER. Anyway next summer I'm gonna force her to have our bookclub of 2 read the brothers karamazov.

l3x13's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-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

koyanqi's review against another edition

4.0

me demoré en leerlo pero la verdad creo que es un libro que hay que leer así, de a poquito. de mis lecturas escolares favoritas y actuales también; me hizo recordar por qué con mis amigas lo relacionábamos un poco con death note jjjj