I read this book as a junior in high school, and I fell in love. I'm generally a fast reader, but it took me at least two months to read the first time. Yet I was always excited about it and never got bored.I recommend it to some of our avid readers at the high school where I work, and though some h...
It's not typical Fyo, that's for sure. Apparently this is like Gogol, but I've only read one of his stories so I really don't know. It's quite funny but it lacks much of his later insight. He really gets (nervous/neurotic) people but in later works he manages to make this understanding more unive...
Listened to this on audio/playaway. I wanted to read more classics this year and include some Russian classics, so this counts as two birds with one stone. I didn't record my start date, but it was probably around 5 weeks ago. It took me a long time to get through it (I took breaks when I didn't lis...
This novel gets better each time I read it. I love how in the beginning, I always think how foolish and irrational Raskolnikov's actions are...but by the end I am close to agreeing with his intentions. I enjoy that Doestoyevsky doesn't give a a true answer for the problem he presents, but this novel...
I kind of hated this, to be honest. Talk about pages upon pages of repetitive inner turmoil. If it wasn’t Rodya, it was the insufferable Katerina Ivanovna (whose turmoil was more external and just as tedious). I thought it might be better to read a book about C&P, say a Freudian interpretation, rath...
To be honest, this is the first book I read from a Russian author. I've always felt intimidated by them, and I was utterly scared of starting reading some of their works, and not being able to finish them. Even my dad told me that Russian writers were very difficult to read.Beginning the book was ha...
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