Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A review of Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous novel Crime and Punishment.

http://www.judgementbookreviews.com/2009/09/crime-and-punishment.html

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• Crime
• Punishment
• Fyodor
• Dostoevsky
• Book
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• Russian
• Novel

[whoshify]

ummm ARE YOU CRAZY? How dare you say this book needs to be edited to 150 pages! Nothing in this novel is unnecessary. Every page is important for the full development of the characters and plot. Don't go thinking you are too good for Dostoevsky. Sounds to me like your mind is too weak to comprehend the genius of crime and punishment and you completely missed the point of the book. You have no idea what you are talking about and you literally make me sick with your accusations.

[JudgementBookReviews]

@whoshify I bet if you took a Rorschach inkblot test you would see all sorts of extraordinary things, but it would be just your own imagination. In the same way, it is your own mind which is projecting great things on this rubbish book.

[alex6678]

Read some Stephen King if you want action. This is an intense psychological novel, and the subtleties are what make the book brilliant, even if they take more pages to tell. For example; the character of Svidragailov(sorry for misspelling) is the quintessential character showing Raskolnikov what a damaged conscience can do to a once prosperous man, which leads to the mans suicide. These, and other numerous subplots and many different characters representing different walks of life show a brill

[Hobo4Craft]

@JudgementBookReviews (Part 4) due to the oppression of Russian society and his poor socioeconomic standing, tries to be extraordinary but fails miserably. Remember the whole Napoleon complex? Pretty important. What I suggest to you is to try an abridged version next time. Then the novel would be easier for you to comprehend.

[Hobo4Craft]

@JudgementBookReviews Quite the quip, but in reality, your facade of intelligence is the only thing here that is naked. Try to expand your mind sometime. Have a nice life.

[Hobo4Craft]

@JudgementBookReviews Ah, it makes sense now: you are an Emerson fanatic. Well, you can go back to reading your short stories about nature, the soul, and transcendentalism. I think this 'scary' and 'unsettling' book is too much of a traumatic experience for you.

"Some random quote that will try to mask the fact that I got completely told off while not adding to the argument at all." - Some Great American Author.

[JudgementBookReviews]

@Hobo4Craft What I suggest to you is try reading Hans Christian Anderson's tale "The Emperor’s New Clothes." You have been told by people who claim to be intellectuals that Crime and Punishment is a complex and well-written novel, and your vanity and desire to not appear dumb prompts you to defend it.

[JudgementBookReviews]

@Hobo4Craft  "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson

[whoshify]

@Hobo4Craft Thank you for stating that so well. Exactly my thoughts and frustrations with the maker of this so called book review.

[Hobo4Craft]

@JudgementBookReviews (Part 3) when, in reality, the novel is more nihilistic than anything. Dostoevsky had to put the ending in the novel lest he be punished by the Russian government for contemplating an intricate, premeditated crime due to the thoroughness of the detail (almost every scene/location in the novel existed in reality with some or little degree of tweaking. This is also why he would say things like "he went to X"). It's about a man who,

[Hobo4Craft]

@JudgementBookReviews (Part 2) Much of the detail and randomness in this book reflect the distraught and torn mind of Raskolnikov. Not all of it is beautiful and happy like a children's book: it is not meant to be. Like alex6678 stated, this is an intense, psychological novel that requires actual effort (God forbid) from the reader to comprehend complex concepts and meanings. And it is clear you lack these things, as you obviously buy into the, "happy ending." provided,