Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.15 AVERAGE

speakyrand's review against another edition

5.0
dark reflective 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

cristorami's review against another edition

4.0
Un libro con un vocabulario muy rico y variado, con unas descripciones muy bien hechas, quizás frena un poco los nombres de los personajes que son algo difíciles, la intriga del libro no podría ser su punto fuerte pero gracias al vocabulario se agradece su lectura (no es que sea rápido de leer).

wen22's review against another edition

2.0
What a mixed bag, whilst it was occasionally funny, I didn't enjoy it all that much. A lot of people say C&P isn't Dostoevsky isn't his peak work - so maybe The Brothers Karamazov is something to try in the future.

I, for one, am all into introspective books and I don't mind if there isn't a lot that happens throughout the book. However, Raskolnikov's thoughts felt so repetitive and not all as deep and earth-shattering as I expected. Rather, I enjoyed the wider social interaction scenes such as the funeral banquet, or dialogue scenes with Sonya or Raskolnikov with his family.

The last one hundred pages were a hard deal to get through. Dostoevsky's prose in C&P is long-winded, draining, and often seems to never end up anywhere except what has been said again and again 200 pages previously.

nz_1998's review against another edition

4.5
challenging mysterious reflective tense
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

dannyluke9's review against another edition

5.0
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

kurayami__'s review against another edition

4.0
dark reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

warrenn's review against another edition

4.5
challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kyles805's review against another edition

1.0
I hated this book. So dark and distressing.
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clown_the_basking_shark's review against another edition

5.0
dark emotional reflective tense 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
This was slow and I knew that going into it BUT THE ENDING WAS SO GOOD!!!!! There were portions that dragged and I was planning on rating this a 4.5 until the conversation with Svidrigaïlov near the ene

ferck's review against another edition

4.5
dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes