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A review by wen22
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
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.