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Summary: The Monas translation is the best
Review: You will probably never find a more interesting, realistic novel. Read it.
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Summary: The best written book I've ever read!!!
Review: Part murder mystery, part love story, and an in- depth moral investigation. Puts Doestevsky's Man-God theory to test; since there is no god, Raskalnikov can kill whomever he wants, and he will be in a sense, a man-god. But eventually his guilt eats away at him, as an investigation closes in on him. After being sent to Prison he gains some redemption from his madness, and his sin, through love. A masterpeice.
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Summary: A timeless classic.... a must buy.
Review: The writer goes deep into the character. He describes the deepest emotions of the characters. They are very real. Very impressive. This is a very powerful and potent book.
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Summary: Profound.
Review: This book is intense. Wrapped up in an exciting storyline are some of the most profound images of human nature, pride, suffering, redemption, sacrifice, and love that I have yet to read. The dualism of the ordinary man vs. the extraordinary man are convicting and force introspection. There is alot more of Razkolnikov in us than we wish to admit... both the warm hearted compassionate person and the detached monomaniac. The presence of two "people" within us is the source of much of our inner conflict and Razkolnikov is easy to see as an image of ourselves. The polar extremes built in to our human nature contribute to and in fact require our suffering.I will not forget this book. I found it philosophically challenging and surprisingly accessible; however, I will never "understand" it. I take away another bit of insight each time I think about Razkolnikov, but his character is one that can never be fully explored.
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Summary: Few can compare
Review: Quite simply and to the point, Crime and Punishment is one of the best books ever written in history of the world.
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Summary: Is this Dostoevsky's best?
Review: I'd like to know from other readers if this is Dostoevsky's best book. Over a period of years, I've read C&P, The Idiot, and The Gambler. The Idiot I remember as being profound - but I read it at an innocent 16 (I should read it again). By contrast, C&P seemed far less challenging, but in many ways more complete. What do other readers think? I'd be particularly keen to hear about those books by Dostoevsky I hadn't read.
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Summary: It's like reading the thoughts of real persons.
Review: I read this book when I was 13. I did not know nothing about russian literature and obviously never heard about Dostoevsky. Luckily, one day I found the book submerged in a sea of books in the bookseller, and the title "crime and punishment" impressed me. I read it without knowing I had in my hands one of the greatest and most profound novels ever. At the end I was so impressed by the clarity, depth and beauty of the characters, their monologues, the plot, everything, that I remember I said "I won't find something like this again in my life", And could do nothing but admiring the author although didn't know nothing of him. Now three years later I've have already read this novel four times and I'm still marveled for the perfection Dostoevsky achieved in describing human pain, and divine hearts. Happily, I was wrong in what I had thought, because then, I discovered that this was not the only novel written by Dostoevsky.
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Summary: an H-bomb
Review: A hyperconscious book with x-ray vision into the fantasies of dammed up pride. C & P's hero's are murderers and sex-offenders, and yet the reader identifies with their dammedup power-drives. This book is eternal. Where pride and poverty meet the mind will suffer the pangs herein descibed (and resolved ?)
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Summary: You will never scape
Review: A really facinating book. You will remember and think of all the bad things humans do and think. You will know alot better your soul. It's not an easy book but you will remember it forever.
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Summary: The greatest book ever written
Review: Although it may take a few readings for one to understand its glory, Crime and Punishment is truly the greatest book ever written. I read it around three times a year(along with Dostoyevky's other work) and I always get something out of it. Fantastic...gripping...challenging. I marvel at how anyone can not give this book a 5 out of 5, or how anyone can call Shakespeare the greatest writer of all time. My only answer would be that some people are simply not ready to tackle some of the ideas presented in Crime and Punishment.
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