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Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Murder
Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Classism
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Murder
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Alcohol
Minor: Cancer, Sexual assault, Suicide, Stalking, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
I finally finished it. After probably an embarrassingly amount of time. I’m crushed.
This book deserves it’s title of the classic of the classics. I read parts of this book for law class back in high school but never actually finished the book. Reading it again though was well worth it.
As with nearly all of dostoevsky’s writing, the characters were all phenomenally well written. No character was the same, all with their own individual challenges, fears and motivations.
The most compelling part of this book is that no one was *truly* the villain. Nearly all of the characters did at least one evil thing in these books, but they were all for complicated motivations. Raskolnikov murdered the sisters because he felt bad for relying on his family to support him, Sonia sold herself into prostitution to save her family that was being struck by illness and alcoholism. Even the most vilest character in the book, Svidrigailov still had is own reasoning for his actions to his dead wife and being obsessed with Dunia. It’s all so very complicated.
The only parts of the book I didn’t enjoy was the rambling. It made it very hard to get through. I found this too with Notes From Underground. Really good book plot wise, but definitely could have skipped the meaningless rambling that really paid no respect to the story itself. I found the pacing uneven, where parts of the book were really exciting and things were happening and then you get stuck on a nearly 25 paged chapter that only consisted of one conversation with two people. (Also that long epilogue was insane!!!)
I debated on giving it 5 stars, but I think it was a solid 4.5 in my books. Worth the read. Will read again.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse
Minor: Homophobia, Antisemitism
I loved Razumikhin and Sonia too.
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Alcohol
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Death of parent
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gun violence, Mental illness, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Перечитывала с огромным удовольствием, иногда проглатывая по сотне страниц за раз, а иногда останавливаясь каждые двадцать, чтобы перевести дух. Думаю, ещё не раз к ней вернусь.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Dementia, Sexual harassment
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Started reading it to become able to say that I've read Crime and Punishment, now I can say I dropped Crime and Punishment half-way through
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Classism
Minor: Confinement, Vomit, Stalking, Abandonment