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I read Crime and Punishment last year and found it incredibly disappointing, considering its massive reputation. Simpletons, idiots, caricatures, buffoons and v
by Kaibeezy 7y ago
I read Crime and Punishment last year and found it incredibly disappointing, considering its massive reputation. Simpletons, idiots, caricatures, buffoons and victims performing lots of hand-wringing, posturing, dithering, swooning and assorted drama. Hard to identify with or care about any of them. Call it entertainment, but I prefer Dickens.
- sdfin 7y agoI read Crime and Punishment after reading The Brothers Karamazov. I found Crime and Punishment shallow in it's story and characters when compared to The Brothers Karamazov.
- jaxOLantern 7y agoDid you read "Crime and Punishment" just after "The Brothers Karamazov"? Or could you have outgrown this type of book?
- sdfin 7y agoYes, I read Crime and Punishment about one year after The Brothers Karamazov. I think The Brothers Karamazov is a great book.
- jaxOLantern 7y agoI understand what you mean, the insight on the mind of a murderer is what kept me going. I found the same unecessary drama/silliness while reading "The Master and Margarita", maybe it's a Russian writing style.
- Kaibeezy 7y agoMaster and Margarita was on my list, maybe it will stay there a while. For insight into the minds of murderers x 4.5 billion + a few, I just finished Iain Banks' Look to Windward. I didn't think I saw what was coming when it came, but then at the end, I realized I knew it was there all along. The Culture series is underrepresented on this thread. Hello, Contact? Whenever it's convenient to send a module, I'm ready to go.