Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky has a truly beautiful and clear way of writing. Crime and Punishment is a true classic and I couldn't recommend it more. Each and every character is vivid, realistic, and immensely easy to become attached to. A truly perfect novel.

I couldn’t make it through this one. I did get past the murder but sadly this didn’t capture my interest. This one isn’t for me. It seemed extremely long-winded to this listener. I don’t have the time to invest in this 25-hour audiobook - especially when I’m not into it.

Can’t love everything.

This was an interesting story about crime and how its consequences affect the main character's life.
- There were a lot more characters than I expected but I did enjoy that most of them were connected to each other and it was easier to keep track of them that way.
- I didn't really understand why at one point the book focused on other character's stories even though it didn't have anything to do about the crime.
- I liked how the story ended on quite a positive note, even though of course we don't know how Raskolnikov will behave after leaving prison.
- This book took long to read because I was really trying to analyze it and truly understand it, which is always hard with classics.
- Basically Raskolnikov tries to justify murdering these two women because he believes to be 'extraordinary' in a way and he has the right to do that even though he is clearly just someone that lets his misery translate to his actions.

An utterly ridiculous series of events and connections around a random gentleman who moonlights as the luckiest criminal I've considered before forensic invention. The last section being my favourite with an actual eventful plot rather than endless recitations of social connections both in reality and the figments of the characters imaginations.