I'm on page 60 of Crime and Punishment. Why is this trash considered good? Some melodramatic Slavic soul wrote a pretentious "im soo smart" slow book that is more boring than watching paint dry.
Is pussy worth reading this crap? I feel it is like the king dress made a book
Jayden Roberts
keep reading, your current impression is wrong but you’ll find out why eventually
Owen Russell
>confusing the main character with the author >judging a novel after 60 pages
Read on
Samuel Green
>I'm so smart Except that's basically the opposite of the book's point you mega retard.
Robert Lewis
i don't even read and i enjoyed this book, fucking dostoievsky man
Robert Turner
Okay I am giving this overhyped shit 60 more pages to get good or it will go into the trash.
Adrian Gutierrez
read until 300 pages or so if u dont like it drop it imo thats where it really gets great
Brody Torres
ive unlocked the secret to crime and punishment. he's making fun of overly emotional slavs. the whole fucking thing is a comedy.
Levi Smith
it gets god mode after page 80~ depending on the edition anyway
Dylan Turner
Raskolnikov's hungered, deranged, self-loathing mental state and the lead-up to the murder is thrilling af.. kys
Gabriel Myers
I found it extremely fucking boring as well. He sprinkles in just enough half assed high minded topics to make the pseuds worship him
Nathaniel Green
If you think this book is boring then this whole reading thing just isn't for you
James Russell
Absolutely this
Joshua Campbell
This
Noah Hughes
Stop calling Dostoevsky melodramatic. The killing scene is underwritten if anything. You are a little stain compared to Dostoevsky.
Levi Peterson
I almost dropped it during his mother's 20+ page letter >his sister was called a slut >everyone thinks shes a thot >some old man has the hots for her >says he's sorry >sister decides to get engaged for money >no longer a slut
Thats it.
Nathaniel Sullivan
Read Death Note instead. It's C&P with all the priorities reversed and the protagonist is an actual superman instead of a pretentious puss.
Daniel Ross
I really hope that you are under the age of 17. Otherwise, you’re not gonna make it
Evan Howard
>is pussy worth kys, listen just because we get pussy for being pseuds doesn't mean all of us read for pussy you fucking faggot
Camden Ortiz
>Nietzsche >pseud What an aspie you are.
James Lewis
>superman >gets defeated by a 13 year old autist
Chase King
>vacuous surface-level reading >completely misses one of the more tragic themes of the novel >doesn't even think why Dosto would have this from a perspective of R's mother >you're probably being completely sincere
every time i see someone venturing their absolutely shit-tier readings of something i'm reminded of how little stock i should put in Veeky Forums's taste.
Elijah Thomas
>13 year old autist Super autist who coasted on the efforts of others, including two super autists.
Asher Wright
just drop it, it's wasted on you
Anthony Flores
>i'm reminded of how little stock i should put in Veeky Forums's taste. Yeah, stuff like this and the age threads remind me to be wary amoung anonymous posts and opinions
Jaxson Hill
You're entitled to your opinion. I'm sorry it did not speak to you the way it has many others. Perhaps in time, or on a successive reading, you will open your heart to it.
Blake Jenkins
Hey, I just finished The inulted and humilated. Any thoughts about this book? i think it is one of the best I have read in my life.
Jason Sanchez
>>completely misses one of the more tragic themes of the novel >>doesn't even think why Dosto would have this from a perspective of R's mother Elaborate.
Christian Fisher
That is just the way Dosto writes characters. It might seem stupid but there is a reason to it
Parker Myers
>pleb skims classic, hilariously/horribly misinterprets it >emperor's new clothes amirite? Like clockwork.
Isaac Phillips
What are we gonna do when basic income makes the whole population just as indifferent to poverty and hunger?
Ryan Jackson
That's what you got from the letter?
Oliver Martin
That's what I got from Safe and easy life might make people too dumb to understand the position of Raskolnikov's family in the province, and his own commitments.
Jace Richardson
You'll never understand anything with this attitude
Bentley Wright
I'm sorry OP that you aren't enjoying Crime & Punishment as much as I did - I fucking loved it. I'd say if the first 60 pages haven't captivated you, you're very unlikely going to warm to its pacing, tension and tone later on.
What other Dostoevsky novels have you read so far? I found myself having a false start with C&P when I was younger but I read The Double, Notes From Underground and The Meek One which I felt warmed me up a little more to Dostoevsky. If you've read Dostoevsky before and you still don't like Crime & Punishment, all I can say is move on to another book, user. Don't push yourself to read something that isn't a pleasure for you.
Angel Robinson
go back to /v/-/tv/-/mu/
Jacob Sanchez
You have to keep reading it starts to get good on the last page
Elijah Wright
hijacking this thread, best C&P translation?
think I read the revised Garnett a while ago, thought some of the phrasing was fairly awkward
Anthony Perry
Trips of Truth
Austin Rodriguez
I'm reading the p&v translation and it's good, not awkward at all, very readable. I read like 40 pages of the garnett version and found it a little clumsy.
Jayden Rivera
The dream he has with the little donkey made me tear up. I rarely cry, but that was too much, man... I could feel its pain.
This book would be a emperor's new clothes thing if critics all praised it like crazy. Actually, this book has always been praised more by the population than anything. Critics generally found it to be good be good but not in league with what they considered "high art", so it"s actually quite the opposite of what you think.
I personally loved how well Dosto finds the faults, I just disagree fundamentally with his solutions. I feel like anything involving spirituality or faith is just a lazy, half-assed blind shot. You should be able to appreciate the book for its criticism of nihilism et al though.
Robert Brown
P&V are kinda bad, they make Dosto sound so American I wanted to puke reading it. Go either with Oliver Ready (Penguin; a bit British, but more fitting than P&V with their dumbing-down americanisms, and overall better), Jessie Coulson (Oxford; good stylist), or Pasternak Slater which I did not read, but heard good things about. Just stay away from P&V who are brainlet-tier.