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Books : Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky CD-Charts Price: £2.00 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780140621808 ISBN: 0140621806 Label: Penguin Books Manufacturer: Penguin Books Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: January 24, 2007 Publisher: Penguin Books Studio: Penguin Books Sales Rank: 745 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - VERY DISAPPOINTINGVery disappointing. Far too drawn out in quite a few places. Was well into it in parts and nodding off in others. A great idea, but a little clumsy and clunky in execution. Rating:  - Brilliant (But depends on which translation you read)In my opinion this is the greatest novel ever written, in that it is the most complete study of mental anguish and human suffering and redemption. One caveat is that the only translation worth reading is that by Constance Garnett. It gets a lot of bad press by critics who claim it makes the novel sound very Victorian. I adisagree. I don't know which is the most faithful translation to Dostoevsky original text (I cannot read Russian) but this is so much more superior than the 'modern' translations. My favourite chapter (Part 4 Chapter 1) is totally ruined in the newer versions. And in many cases the new translation make the text unwieldy and inelegant. Read this book, but do yourself a favour and read the Garnett translation. ... Read More: Rating: - Deep and relevantCrime and Punishment beautifully captures moods and moments to guide the reader through the book as though we were truly looking through Roskolnikov's eyes. Dostoyevsky understands the danger that lurks in all of us, and the mind's ability to twist and justify actions and thoughts with the greatest of ease if we are thrown off the righteous path. This is reflected beautifully in the most extreme of scenarios that Roskolnikov finds himself in. It would be a challenge to pick this book up and not finish reading it. Rating:  - Somewhat lacking...Basically a story about guilt and redemption written with absolutely compelling characters and depth. The start is tremendously gripping though it starts to lose pace around the last quarter and meanders somewhat. The reason why I score this lowly is because the ideas placed out are a bit thin on the ground when you look at it objectively (I've read shorter books which have a much wider theme), you can't help but think that it could've been written in half the pages and for all the great character's in place, they fail to live up to there potential, that the story doesn't make enough use of them. It would be great if more actually happened as I felt a lot of what did happen was largely (and ironically) inconsequential. It's a little bit tragic that the ... Read More: Rating: - An unenjoyable readI found this book to be unenjoyable. I could appreciate that it is very well written and would have been very ahead of it's time but also found it to be unnecessarily drawn out and convoluted. It's claimed that, "The genius of the book is the commentary on many aspects of life" but I think it would be far better if the author could have intertwinned this with an interesting plot. |
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