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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.0
listened and read with Simon & Schuster Enriched Classic. translated by Constance Garnett.
After having the book for more than a decade, I've finally read it. I was initially planning to read the modern translation by Oliver Ready since it received lots of praise and people mentioned it's closer to Dostoevsky's writing style - including his humor. But listened to this one (since it's free on Audible) and my physical copy is also translated by Garnett. This got bumped up on my to read list because of Lav Diaz's Filipino movie, which is loose adaptation of Crime and Punishment, titled Norte, the End of History, and surprisingly one of his shorter ones which only runs for 250 minutues. But sadly, it's not included in his Mubi Collection, or it's geo-locked.
There's a lot of themes and subjects to really unpack here and I really haven't look in-depth or read the notes and criticism included in the physical book. And it's just sending me down on a rabbit hole of Nihilism, Utilitarianism, Ayn Rand's Objectivism (tempted to read her [b:Atlas Shrugged|662|Atlas Shrugged|Ayn Rand|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1405868167l/662._SY75_.jpg|817219] despite being heavily criticized due to her world view and how bad/dragged out the story is). Or just replay Bioshock 1 & 2, because "fuck Ayn Rand" or something.
After having the book for more than a decade, I've finally read it. I was initially planning to read the modern translation by Oliver Ready since it received lots of praise and people mentioned it's closer to Dostoevsky's writing style - including his humor. But listened to this one (since it's free on Audible) and my physical copy is also translated by Garnett. This got bumped up on my to read list because of Lav Diaz's Filipino movie, which is loose adaptation of Crime and Punishment, titled Norte, the End of History, and surprisingly one of his shorter ones which only runs for 250 minutues. But sadly, it's not included in his Mubi Collection, or it's geo-locked.
There's a lot of themes and subjects to really unpack here and I really haven't look in-depth or read the notes and criticism included in the physical book. And it's just sending me down on a rabbit hole of Nihilism, Utilitarianism, Ayn Rand's Objectivism (tempted to read her [b:Atlas Shrugged|662|Atlas Shrugged|Ayn Rand|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1405868167l/662._SY75_.jpg|817219] despite being heavily criticized due to her world view and how bad/dragged out the story is). Or just replay Bioshock 1 & 2, because "fuck Ayn Rand" or something.