Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

67 reviews

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

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

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

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Mental 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, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Murder, Misogyny, and Antisemitism

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: Antisemitism and Alcoholism

aconfundityofcrows's review

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

Minor: Antisemitism, Grief, and Terminal illness

b_caligari's review

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

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

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