A review by badspringbye
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

dark informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

 4.5 or 5, whatever!

I feel like I committed the crime and suffered from the punishment myself

"The execution of the deed is sometimes masterfully done, in the most ingenious fashion, yet the control of the individual actions that comprise it, the origin of those actions, is diffuse and is associated with various morbid sensations. Rather like a dream."

more excerpts:
p. 45 "But if there is no one, if there is nowhere left to go? I mean, everyone must have at least somewhere to go. For there comes a time in every man’s life when he simply must have somewhere he can go!"

p. 108 "The way he saw it, this eclipse of reason and failure of will attack human beings like an illness, developing slowly and reaching their crisis not long before the enactment of the crime; … on the other hand, the question of whether it was in illness that gave rise to the crime, or whether the crime itself was, by its peculiar nature, invariably accompanied by something resembling an illness, was one that he did not yet feel able to determine."

p. 177 "To be quite honest, if one goes into all the ins and outs of everyone, are there really going to be all that many good people left?"

p. 400 "The one all our legal rules and formalities are designed for and the one on the basis of which they’re all worked out and written into the legal textbooks, simply doesn’t exist, for the very good reason that every case, every crime, if you like, as soon as it takes place in reality, turns into a thoroughly special case."