>Welcome to the novel whose title sounds like a cross between a game show and an episode of Law & Order: SVU...but is actually one of the most read, most studied, and most (in)famous works of literature in the world. >No pressure, right?
>Actually, the best way to read Crime and Punishment is to not only feel all that pressure but to revel in it. This is a novel all about the vice grip of intense pressures: the pressures of society, of class, of psychology, of morality, of Christianity, and of what it means to be a human in the world.
>Easy? Ha. Rewarding? Oh, heck yes...if only because you'll get to say, "Oh, Crime and Punishment? Yeah, I've read that one."
>Which is yet another reason to devour this book like your little cousin's Halloween candy stash, in our opinion. >Ain't no Russian novel like a controversial Russian novel...because you just know that a controversial Russian novel is extra delicious, messed up, and challenging.
>It's also extra psychological. Crime and Punishment—like most Dostoevsky joints—is incredibly fluid and open to a wide variety of interpretations. >As Simon Karlinsky suggests in his essay "Dostoevsky as Rorschach Test," (cool essay title or coolest essay title?) how we interpret Crime and Punishment might be a reflection of our own psychology.
Mason Mitchell
I reserve the right to refute you until i have read the sparknote for The ego and it's own, but i do believe that you are spooked by the romantic idea of the intellectual.
Jack Russell
me 2bqh if you don't sparknotes your class books so you can read other books on your own time you're just not thinking efficiently. Not to mention, the mental agility required to improvise sophisticated shitposts in a field like literature is nothing to sneeze at. You learn much more from trying to solve a problem than from already knowing the answer.
Hunter Robinson
What's the sparknotes on vaccines? Safe? 49 in a year or so seems like a lot
Carter Jenkins
>Does that sound boring? Thought not. But in case you need convincing, you also get a tour of the seedy underbelly of St. Petersburg: we're talking drunks, prostitutes, and scuzzbags of all stripes. It sounds like a VICE documentary. But, in reality, it's even better because with Dostoevsky writing this thing, the scummiest of characters is a little bit angelic, and the most angelic of characters is a little bit scummy.
Oh my God, make it stop
Caleb Barnes
What difference is there between reading a book and reading notes about the book if you can convince others who have read the book that you have too? It is like the Chinese Room but with sparknotes.
Chase Ortiz
>Shmoop has set itself apart from the stalwarts by synopsizing the expected canon, like Camus’s “The Stranger” and Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” as well as by analyzing more contemporary and popular culture works. Among its 600 study guides are guides for best sellers like Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl Who Played With Fire” and song lyrics like Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi,” which it likens to “The Great Gatsby,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” Though Shmoop says the authors come “from Ph.D. and masters’ programs at Stanford, Harvard, U.C. Berkeley and other top universities” the site still misspelled the last name of Virginia Woolf, the English author. Guides on topics like civics and economics also are available. HOL UP >>>Though Shmoop says the authors come “from Ph.D. and masters’ programs at Stanford, Harvard, U.C. Berkeley and other top universities" someone who went to a school twice as prestigious as yours for twice as long wrote that just think about that for a second
Parker Hughes
You can't. I can't tell you how many times I've discussed shit at length with people on here about books or ideas I've only read the wikis of and still had them convinced I knew more than the surface level of. This whole place is pseudcentral my man.
Austin Ward
You have to devote mental energy to rationalizing your lies.
