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Summary: This is the best book I have ever read!
Review: No person should go through life without reading Crime and Punishment. It is an intense Russian Classic without the 4-digit page numbers.
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Summary: Constance Garnett is the best translator of Dostoyevsky
Review: Constance Garnett is by far the best translator of Dostoyevsky. Compare the scene in Crime and Punishment, where Raskolnikov is telling Sonia he committed the murder (around pages 320-330). "I wanted to have the daring," he says, as his motive. Or in the Brothers Karamazov, where Father Zosima (spelling?) tells about his older brother's death (page 302 or so in the Garnett hardcover translation). "Run along now. Enjoy life for me too." So much more beautiful than the other translators. If you are not going to read it in Russian, Garnett is the next best thing.
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Summary: Readers will at once empathize and despise lead character.
Review: What's most fascinating about Crime and Punishment that I have not read in the other reviews here is that Dostoyevski has the incredible ability to make the reader feel true empathy for the main character while simultaneously experiencing disgust, pitty and at times extreme frustration. The setting is bleak beyond reality, yet the author creates a a world in which the reader can smell the the dank, desperation of alcoholics, lost souls, and those who have completely given up hope, yet accept their lot in life without taking recourse against their oppressors, except,of course, R. The late 1800s in Russia was a very harsh, lonely and fearful place to live. In light of the tragic life that Dostoyevski himself lived, this work of art all the more important. In many ways he's been in R.'s shoes.
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Summary: words cannot express the greatness
Review: This book is greater than almost any other I have read. The characters are deep and believable and the storyline is easy to follow. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!!!!!
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Summary: Immaculate Perception
Review: Only after the dust settled did my psyche follow suit. This masterpiece delves into every sentient sphere: at once prompting laughter, commiseration, and angst. Had I not read it, I would be at considerable loss in ever grasping what it means to eat oneself alive.
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Summary: Dark and Compelling
Review: This is a heart-wrenching novel about a man lost in his own theories. As a Napoleon, a superior to those "ordinary fools", he feels he has the right and motive to kill an old woman money-lender and free himself from poverty. The hideous guilt that builds up and somewhat destroys the young man's soul creats a web of intimacy and tension. This novel haunts and disturbs. How can a murder be justifiable? This one is. If you're a sensitive and easily frustrated person, I do no recommend this book to you. Dostoyevesky's depiction of this murder from the opening pages thrills the reader to a somewhat unbearable degree.
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Summary: Mind boggling
Review: In this book Dostoyefsky actually mananges to get into the mind of a man who is slowly going mad. As he examines his personal philosophies and how they clash with his conscience, you are given such an astonishing view of this mans tormented thoughts---sometimes it makes you want to scream out loud as you suffer with him in his indecision. Most of the action is internal and will prbably seem boring to those who favor action.
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Summary: The guy before me got it ALMOST right
Review: Impossible to read even once. Lessons this book teaches us: "You are not superiour to other people, do not kill other people, God is the answer to all your problems" Good. now let's go after some teletabbies.
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Summary: Impossible to read more than once
Review: This book plunges one into the depths of despair, making one realize how colourful one's own life really is. To be Raskalnikov would be like living in hell. Dostoyevsky is a genius, capable of so skillfully exploring the human physche.
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Summary: Natural laws in the novel
Review: Raskolnikov was looking for the proof of the moral law, but he couldn't understand that the moral law DIDN'T NEED any proof. This is the law of consience. This is the law of God.
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