What I wouldn’t give to be able to read every book in its native language and understand the cultural connotations of the place and time it was written 🥲
I am native Russian speaker. The connotation of "Crime and Punishment" is very simple: you can kill someone, fill guilty and that's OK in the end. Exactly the ideology that sends missiles from Russia into my direction right now. The "our poor boys who went armed across the border" ideology.
Even though my school books would only have snippets of books and other literarythings like that, I was happy in school because the activities and questions would always need further context to be answered and my school book came with bits of the context that the teachers would expand upon. I wish every book came with stuff like that, on top of all if it's a translated or like, 10th version (serious question, why are there so many versions of some books??? It's the same shit everytime, with all due respect)
I personally thought it was easier to get into “The Idiot” then crime in punishment. But you should totally do a secret history rebind, they’re absolutely gorgeous
Props to you man the idiot had me feeling like a schizo i would draw whole ass character trees just to keep track of everything. The contracts between the simplicity of prince myshkin and the complexity of all the characters was really what kept me hooked. How is this simpleton going to navigate this novela style drama of relationships? It was really rewarding but i still put Brothers Karamazov at number 1
I finished Crime and Punishment a while ago, and I'm currently reading The Idiot. The latter is definitely lighter and easier to get through, and luckily, the specific version I have also dedicates a page in listing every character and a short description of their part in the story before the beginning of it.
Omg I really love “The Idiot” but I can’t fathom recommending it as a first Dosto novel. I would suggest rather starting with C&P or White Nights because of their more direct narrative structure. But I started with Notes from Underground and don’t regreat it one bit!
As a Russian, now I wonder how bad is English version of this book. Personally for me this book wasn’t that hard to understand, but it’s surely written in a very specific way - it feels sometimes like someone’s mind rambling. A little fun fact about Russian literature in that regard: you can’t even imagine how many books about unaliving someone or themselves school students have to read. If I remember correctly, it starts somewhere in 5th grade with “Mumu” - a story that ends with deaf man drowning his dog
We read explicit books here in Polish schools too... I found it hard to get through some of them because of the themes of murder/su1c1d3/r4p3, especially that these topics are somewhat personal to me. I honestly think teens shouldn't be forced to read such content. It can be disturbing even for adults.
@@Ashe-q1f yeah, I agree. I don’t think that a child could even understand what happens in half of them, it might frighten them, and yet you have to read through it and analyse it like damn…
русским привет, остальным соболезную. what about those short stories from Tolstoy about a dog and a lion in a zoo? or poems about salaspils concentration camp and other things about WWII? it starts long before mumu. oh, and that story about kids who were living in an abandoned mansion, a boy and a girl, and a boy whose father was a court judge and his mother died, called the kids from the underground or something? дети подземелья or also в дурном обществе.
As someone who has read it in both Russian and English I confirm: the translation is weird and doesn’t relay all the feelings the original manages to pull off. In Russian this is one of the most atmospheric books I have ever read. Its depressing and grey depiction of imperial Saint Petersburg is on point, and constant paranoia makes you feel anxious af
Sometimes it boils down to translation. I’d recommend the Katz or Pevear and Volokhonsky translations. Katz reads similar to an American author, whereas P and V feels more like a literal translation (loyal to prose and such). I hope this helps!
@@farrins808 P and V is a great choice. It’s my personal choice when reading Dostoevsky. Although Crime and Punishment can be daunting, White Nights or Notes From Underground can be more approachable.
I am reading the katz translation and this has been absolutely mindblowing so far.I have already read half the book in 2 days and it is very coherent and easy to understand the book.I always read contemporary and now after reading this book I finally understand why these books are called classics.This book has just become my favourite of all time.
@@thecrazygamertarun5265 That’s awesome! Translation can make or break a novel! I wish I could experience the novel again for the first time. Enjoy the book!
It's actually a required read for high schoolers in Polands! Most of my classmates really enjoyed it when we went through it last years, myself included.
Why does everyone get to read such... High class books (???). All we've ever read was a book about a family that adopts a pig and another one about a girl who constantly messes up her life in the dumbest ways possible.
@@lilli4222In Poland you read at minimum 5 books a year ever since second grade. In elementary there are mostly fun books, mostly to show you some concepts or genres, like Hobbit to talk about fantasy, Lem's books to talk about sci-fi... And also some books about different family situation, not like queer families but more like abuse 😅 Later in elementary you read more patriotic books, and in high school you learn almost no to absolutely no polish (like grammar and stuff) it's pure history of literature, we go through every period in literature and read a couple books and shorter stuff from it.
The "russian to english to russian to english translation" feel of it is so true. Honestly, the only thing that got me through it was reading it and listening to the audiobook on 2x speed at the same time. Also, sick rebinding -- that's pure art.
@@serinalupin8562That's so wild lol, I appreciate the things they're trying to do but at that point just don't force yourself to read it. The act of reading is akin to meditation, would do yourself and Dosty a favor to come back to it another time to really take it in.
@@drake7038I do agree that reading without audiobooks is relaxing, yet I still often read with audiobooks because it helps me focus in on the book. I often unconsciously miss details in books by accidentally reading ahead and missing a few lines, especially when there are big paragraphs of exposition. By putting on an audiobook, my mind focuses on the words and I miss nothing. Hope you have a great day (❁´◡`❁)
DUDE WTF IM ALSO DOING THE SAME THING. READING WHILE LISTENING THE AUDIOBOOK. i bought this book 6 months ago, tried multiple times but couldn't get past part 1. now ive only 1 chapter left to finish pt 1. this time im gonna finish whole book
I love Crime and Punishment because what the main character feels and thinks matches with my mind, the irrationality of it all. His sense of guilt and anxiety, along with his willingness to try and do good nature and want to do justice yet still feeling frantic and knowing he is bad inside is so deep and yet so relatable you forget his thoughts are from a murder and not growing up in a messed up highly pressured life.
It was the first time I related to character and it felt really meaningful to me. I remember thinking that it was probably weird to relate to character because how his head works instead of something like experiences or personality (although it did helped me identity traits I didn't realise I had).
i’m actually reading crime and punishment right now, and honestly seeing a lot of people in the comments saying it took them a long time to read made me feel relieved 😅 i’ve been reading it for 3 weeks now and i was surprised it’s taken me this long to get to the point i am (about 70 pages left), it’s definitely my new favorite book but sometimes it just feels a bit tough to continue!! definitely reading the other dostoyevsky books i have before school starts
@@lilli4222like all books it depends on the person. I finished Crime and Punishment in a week but books like Beyond Good and Evil was, for me, impossible to get past even the first chapter. I think I got through Crime and Punishment so easily because at the time, I was in a similar mental state as the main character in the book Raskolnikov. Seeing someone put my mental state into words was like finding an oasis in a desert.
It took me several months to finish the book (mainly because of depressive episodes. Do not read Dostoevsky in depressive episodes, big mistake) but I'm glad to see that alot of other people took a while on it too
I used to hate annotating books or just changing them in any way other than the original book, but after a friend asked me to annotate their book that I was borrowing I realized the appeal. It’s fun to look back and see someone else’s thoughts as you read it yourself. Of course I won’t do this to my own books, but I find something quaint in annotations
haha it actually took me an entire year to get through crime and punishment. i was also twelve when i read it, so i think a lot of the cultural and historical significance was lost on me despite being an "advanced" reader. i don't have time now but it's definitely on my list to try an reread in the future. love the rebind too!
Same😭 I read it when I was 13 and it took me the whole year to get through it even though I really enjoyed it. It's definitely one of the best books I've read. (I'm currently obsessed with his other books because of it.)
I read it about 4 times (in russian), and view it as one of the most dynamic, chilling and emotional classics. Try finding a different translation! Maybe a more recent one. Listening to the audiobook should also help. :)
Theres a guy on youtube called Hippias Minor, he does a lot of lets reads of Dosteovsky, and explains things someone might miss or not understand really well. I believe he's either in the process of doing Crime and Punishment, or already finished it, but i highly recommend his channel Edit: I checked , and he has finished crime and punishment
Words can't actually describe how much I actually adore this book, but I will attempt to do so. Crime and punishment is such a trip through alot of thoughts, emotions and I found myself coming into terms with my own loneliness and how i treat those around me through the misdeeds of the protagonist. Rodya is such a flawed person internally and he's so pathetic and unstable that it's strange to figure him out or why you relate to him. The characters around him that are supposed to be good are so loveable and the characters that are supposed to be bad are so irritating positively. Dostoevsky easily manages to trigger the emotions that are supposed to be portrayed and it's so brilliant to me. Additionally, his messy writing style where he adds on and on and details everything is my favourite. He mentions something very bluntly with foreshadowing and has the reader make an impression, then goes on and on with details and derails the thought till its brought up much later which makes me feel uneasy and its exciting. I find myself lost in the words and going through an emotional trip till I realise that the twist is right around the corner and it's just so entertaining. The ending is also bittersweet, everything is a train wreck at the last 2-3 chapters and I can confidently claim it's my favourite part of the book. No other book or piece of media has made me this emotional and I highly recommend it to anyone reading this.
I’ve always wanted to do a book rebinding for my favorite book, Resistance by Jennifer Neilson. But part of me wants to keep the original cover. I bought the book when I was 10 from a book fair at school. The story didn’t make much sense since I had no historical context but I picked it up again and after losing, finding it again, and just reading I finished it after 3 years. I sobbed over each character and now that I’m the same age as the original character I relate to her more and more. Over the years the cover shows the toll of time, tape, creases, tears, marks, the spine is breaking, but it has love to it. I might make a slip on cover, then I can persevere my love that lines the cover. Thanks for reading my little ramble, I love talking about this book whenever I get the opportunity. I highly recommend it, don’t let the fact it says it’s a children’s book turn you away, it will tug at your heart strings no matter how old you are. Have a lovely day/evening and happy reading!
I can imagine reading it in a non-slavic language has to be pain. There's so much stuff that just doesn't translate well. Like for instance most of the characters' names have meaning that just go completely over your head if you don't speak russian or a language where the words have similar meaning.
The biggest problem of literature lessons in Russia is that we read all those books in age of 11-17. I mean we've read this book at age of 15 like what are we supposed to understand
We read "The Storm" by Ostrovsky and "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" by Leskov this year and lots of my classmates (we are 16-17 years) didnt understand, why couldnt the MCs just divorce (back then divorces were forbidden or very hard) and why did their relatives thought that it is ok surpress a woman (like in "Lady Macbeth..." MC's husband and the husband's father hated her since she could not become pregnant, although the husband was infertile)
Please post tutorials! I would love to see your whole process with a narration of what you're doing and why you're doing things! I wanna know how you got into book binding! I want to hear stories about your journey learning and thoughts on making mistakes! Please!!!!!
As a Ukrainian, i have really weird feelings about this. We read this in school, and then big war started, and suddenly, even people who loved it stop reading.
This was only my second of your videos and I’m hooked. These books are getting new life through your skillful creativity and attention to detail. Well done, sir. Well done!
I devoured Crime and Punishment over a single weekend in my first year of uni. I grew up very poor and was struggling to pay for my studies and rent while also working full-time, so I identified with Raskolnikov deeply. I love it, but my most favourite is Dracula by Bram Stoker. If you haven't read that, I highly recommend it!
I was gifted “Royal Arrow” by G. A. Aiken around Easter 2023. I put that book down so often because I wasn't feeling it. During reading I was always tensed up and apprehensive of suspense or action - waiting for a plot that never came. I fought my way through to the last eighth of it, then decided not to finish the book. I asked around, then found out it was a later book in a side series based on a LONG series - which was why I never stayed on top of the many, many characters. I’m going to donate it to my local library. It’s still in top condition and perhaps someone else can enjoy it.
Same 😭 first time reading it I so desperately tried to breeze through it but I didn’t understand what was going on. Second time reading it, more slowly, while annotating kinda helps.
Jackson! I’m extremely impressed with your work on these book covers. I’m a fellow book maker and a photographer. However up until now my hard cover hand made books have had mostly blank covers. I’m VERY interested in learning what this technique is and what equipment you’re using to create these designs. If you’d be willing to share some knowledge from one artist to another it’d be greatly appreciated!
I read it with a book club. Having discussions about it and reading only a couple of chapters before every meeting certainly helps ;) Other classics that I really struggled with were Moby Dick and the Illiad. Nowadays if it feels too much like mental torture I'll read something light instead. If it starts to ruin your love of reading there is no point really.
I read crime and punishment for high school literature class and i loved it! We had a big discussion with the whole class about the book and it helped grasp the book better, my teacher also added some cultural and historical context which helped a lot. Definitely in my top ten favourite books :)
You should read All tomorrows. It's genuinely one of my favorite books of all time and it makes me think about our current society's flaws and beauties.
Im actually reading the book right now and I've not experienced this feeling, perhaps the translation I'm reading is done better? In any case if you do speak Dutch, I can recommend Hans Bolands translation.
I can relate to struggling to get through a book. Sometimes the translation is the problem. I was assigned Crime and Punishment in a class I was in, I had to read one translation while the other came in the mail. The first one I read only the first five chapters, but it was so much less interesting than the translation that I was waiting for in the mail. That version was published by Penguin Random House, translated by Oliver Ready. It is phenomenal, I recommend trying that one if you haven't already.
So glad I just found your channel, this is a gem! I’ve only read Notes from the Underground. Would you consider doing Anna Karenina or To the Lighthouse next?
Haha lol, I had the same problem when reading War and Peace, as the copy I was reading was (and this was in the translators notes) translated from Russian to German and then from German into English. I still managed to finish the book, but I had a hard time reading it at my usual pace because of the way sentences and paragraphs were formatted. On top of that, there were so many subtleties and euphemisms that I was not able to pick up on because of the book being translated into German before English, so I didn’t get a good experience from that. However, I still enjoyed the book and thought it was intriguing and entertaining, but if I were to read it again I would need to buy a different translation.
We had to read it in ELAR and though I admit I didn't read EVERYTHING all the way through it was still one of my favorites and I even got my friend into I keep the book in my bookshelf
I've been seeing a lot of your shorts and it's honestly kinda sad for me. When I was younger I loved reading every book I could get my hands on. For multiple years I'd spend at least 6 hours a day reading, that's not an exaggeration I spent more time reading than people spend at a full time job. But I've only willingingly sat down with a single book, The Financial Lives of the Poets (solid stuff, good comedy), since highschool. It's just been academic works assigned by school. Im not someone who constantly shit talks the education system but I do have the gripe that killed love of reading. I truely mean killed as I'm not sitting here wanting to read but can't bring myself to do it, I'm sitting here feeling apathetic to the idea, besides the feeling of guilt from never going back to it. If I do return to any of my old habits it won't be through me forcing it as well as it won't happen anytime soon as I don't feel too pressured about it, for better or for worse. There really isnt much point to this I just needed to put this rant somewhere public
I personally recommend listening to it on audible. I have the book at home and I begin reading it however since I am a dyslexic with ADHD it’s really hard for me to make progress in a book especially like crime and punishment. Crime and punishment is one of my favorite books after listening to it so if you find that you struggle reading it, I really suggest listening to it. :)
I had this same situation when I first read or tried to read Kafka. Told a friend at work about it and he said it isn‘t the right time yet. Tried it again a few years later and it felt right, I could finally understand it. Give it a few years would be my advice. :)
If you haven't already, i recommend reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, the beginning is a bit dry and the author rambles about things a lit but the book genuinely changed my perspective on how we identify living spaces as a whole, and the psychology of people in awful situations 🎉🎉
There's a graphic novelisation of Crime and Punishment in English. It might be an idea to read that to get a grasp on the story, then go back to the text-only version. When having trouble processing language, it can be helpful to have something to supplement the words
My favorite Russian book I love the way he wrote the main character, my friends always joke about us being alike (mostly because of the "broke depressed college student with violent thought" Thing) thankfully i haven't killed any grandma's... Yet
i had this exact problem when i was 12-ish. i bought crime & punishment and struggled to get through the first two chapters. in hindsight, reading a russian to english translation of an already dense novel /as/ a non-native english speaker probably elevated the difficulty for me lmao. but im 23 now and currently reading brothers karamazov. u just have to give urself time. keep re-reading passages if u have to or feel free to glide past ones that go over ur head (u can always come back to them). dont be so hard on urself. normally, u need to get used to the author's voice only when reading a new book (& that's challenging on its own), but with translated works u have to acclimate urself to TWO voices: the author's and the translator's. once u get a feel of it, let me tell ya'll. u will reach a point in a Dostoevsky novel where u'll just go, "oh.......oh ok." there's a reason james baldwin mentioned Dostoevsky when he talked about fiction's liberating power to make us feel less alone in our suffering. im near half way thru brothers karamazov and every chapter has me either crying or reacting like that smoking & shaking head duck gif (or both).
Here's how I got through C&P (as a school's summer reading, I was about 15 at the time): 1) Spend summer vacation of 1998 at grandparents' dacha (no computer, no tv, just books you brought); 2) Rains lasting about a week, so no biking, no swimming, even hanging out in the toolshed isn't that much fun; 3) 5-6 people in a 4-room house, including grandma, so slacking is not an option, and school reading counts as honest work; 4) Big-ass box of tomatoes in the next room, which we were allowed to eat as much as we wanted. I still have a feeling that tomatoes made all the difference.
Get a newer translation, some of the german ones are so fantastic, i am sure your enjoyment greatly hinges on the translation. Also a little bit of a culture thing too
I absolutely loved this book!! Definitely one of my favorites. However, I also noticed that the translation to English seemed really awkward in some spots
Honestly, I hadn't finished it, too, even though it was required at school I kind of liked it, but I had trouble finishing it, esp when Sonya's arc began I think I'd watched a tv series, tho
It's definitely a difficult read and it took getting used to. I had to read and reread paragraphs and pages to actually understand the words on the page (which sounds terrible but to be fair it isn't that bad, I was just reading it when I was in grade 8). I know that it's a book some people like to gloat about reading but in my young opinion, it was really enjoyable and the end was my favorite part. I'm not sure why but I remember feeling satisfied with it and also bawling my eyes out. (It wasn't that sad, I just cry at everything.)
Surprised to hear that cause it was one of the easiest to read classics i read and mine was probably russian - english -portuguese. Very accessible and very fast to read. Maybe try a different translator or an audiobook
I wouldn't call her a wealthy lady, she was a loan shark. The core experience is that you don't pity "a rich, old lady" but see the evil the victim caused, yet you know the murder can't ever be condoned.
In 9th grade my teacher assigned different students different books to read, and I got Crime and Punishment, albeit a slightly abridged version. I finished it without any issues, but it did drag along for quite a bit. However, a book I've never been able to finish is Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola. It was assigned to us by my high school language and literature teacher, and no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't get through it. Luckily for me, that teacher had a habit of assigning us naturalistic books with similar arcs of unhappy love, that end with the main female character dying (usually taking herself out); so even though I never finished it, I was able to bluff my way to making the teacher think I had read it.
You gotta get the right translation The one I read was a breeze but I spent a long time trying to figure out which translation to use. Imo the best one is the newest, Richard Pevear's and Larissa Volokhonsky's 1992 translation.
I've read 2 other shorter Dostoevski books with no issue (Notes From the Underground, and The Double). But do have a book that tried reading several times and straight up kept on getting lost or dissasociated and unable to get through which was "In Search of Lost Time"
Not with Crime and Punishment, but Interview with a Vampire. I loved the movie and I'd never met a book that wasn't better than the movie. So of course I picked it up. Usually I can read a book of it's size in 2-3 days, but 6 months later I'd barely made it halfway through, it was so dry and dull! I finally gave up trying so it's the one book I've never finished. Still love the movie, and the recent series was amazing! But I'll die before I even attempt that book again.
I would always say switch up the translation before giving up on the book. I’ve even found variation in the same translator, for example, I loved the Constance Garnett translation for the Brothers Karamozov, but not for Demons.. though that could be attributable to Brothers K being a better novel.
I read it for an English class and I say the best thing to do is skim the entire thing, take notes of interesting lines, and then just go back and reread those interesting parts
You should read “Finders Keepers” by Roy Deering, which is short and sweet and technically meant for nine year olds but my sister and I loved it and it’s really deep actually and I think it would look great with a rebinding like this
I think, you may be surprised, but this book is one of many books that Russian schoolchildren have to read for their Literature State Exam if they choose Literature as their exam subject and want to pass it. There are different tasks and it is always a lottery which book you'd have to annalise. For example, the majority of my exam tasks this year were about "War and Peace" by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. However, it could happen that I'd have tasks about "Crime and Punishment", "Oblomov", "Eugeniy Onegin" and so many other great books written by great authors. I wish I read all of them later, as an adult, yet I'm quite happy to know about all these authors and their creations. It can be a life-changing experience to read something like "Crime and Punishment".
I read C&P back in high school for an AP class and have been wanting to read it again since people seem to enjoy it! I tried twice in the past 2/3 years and keep putting it back on my shelf 💀💀 I feel like this video is a sign to give it another shot LOL
Strangely for me it was the opposite, i couldn't put it down until i finished it. But then again, if i think today about if i would read it again, probably not, my concentration and interests aren't what they used to be. It didnt help that i have a very old version in german where they still used those gothic letters. I still have it and it is my most prized book as my substitute mother gave it to me as a gift and i koved her so much.
I'm Russian and I also have problems reading the book, if you want to get into Russian literature you should maybe try "White Nights" first. A very short and easy novel, also very romantic :)
It's boring in the start , but when you cross a good portion of the book , you can't stop reading ! The book I read was in two parts , I took too much reading the first part , but I finished the second book in a day !!! It's my favorite book ❤.
I read the norton translation, a slightly more modernised version, of Crime and Punishment back when I was 14. Its a heavy book with some grim themes and deep philosophy. I wouldn't recommend if you're having a bad day, because you'll probably feel more depressed. But Dostoevsky's ability to show the internal brooding and frustrations of his characters and the immoral world of St Petersburg they inhabit really is second to none For starters to Dostoevsky, definitely recommend Notes from the Underground. A shorter wilder novella!
It was hard for me because of Marmiladov's situation. The scene where Raskolnikov brings him to his house and his wife's children are petrified from fear and crying hit too close to home.
What I wouldn’t give to be able to read every book in its native language and understand the cultural connotations of the place and time it was written 🥲
I desperately wish I could do this with Les Mis
I am native Russian speaker. The connotation of "Crime and Punishment" is very simple: you can kill someone, fill guilty and that's OK in the end. Exactly the ideology that sends missiles from Russia into my direction right now. The "our poor boys who went armed across the border" ideology.
Even though my school books would only have snippets of books and other literarythings like that, I was happy in school because the activities and questions would always need further context to be answered and my school book came with bits of the context that the teachers would expand upon. I wish every book came with stuff like that, on top of all if it's a translated or like, 10th version (serious question, why are there so many versions of some books??? It's the same shit everytime, with all due respect)
I unironically started using scoundrel in my everyday vocab lmao i started ironically but now i count stop
@@starlight8115 yes! Cultural footnotes for everything, especially for translation difficulties/discrepancies and cultural connotations/references
I personally thought it was easier to get into “The Idiot” then crime in punishment. But you should totally do a secret history rebind, they’re absolutely gorgeous
ooh that’s such a great idea, that book is incredible
Props to you man the idiot had me feeling like a schizo i would draw whole ass character trees just to keep track of everything. The contracts between the simplicity of prince myshkin and the complexity of all the characters was really what kept me hooked. How is this simpleton going to navigate this novela style drama of relationships? It was really rewarding but i still put Brothers Karamazov at number 1
I finished Crime and Punishment a while ago, and I'm currently reading The Idiot. The latter is definitely lighter and easier to get through, and luckily, the specific version I have also dedicates a page in listing every character and a short description of their part in the story before the beginning of it.
Yes!! I liked the Idiot a lot more. Maybe because Prince Myshkin is an easier character to follow.
Omg I really love “The Idiot” but I can’t fathom recommending it as a first Dosto novel. I would suggest rather starting with C&P or White Nights because of their more direct narrative structure. But I started with Notes from Underground and don’t regreat it one bit!
As a Russian, now I wonder how bad is English version of this book. Personally for me this book wasn’t that hard to understand, but it’s surely written in a very specific way - it feels sometimes like someone’s mind rambling.
A little fun fact about Russian literature in that regard: you can’t even imagine how many books about unaliving someone or themselves school students have to read. If I remember correctly, it starts somewhere in 5th grade with “Mumu” - a story that ends with deaf man drowning his dog
We read explicit books here in Polish schools too...
I found it hard to get through some of them because of the themes of murder/su1c1d3/r4p3, especially that these topics are somewhat personal to me.
I honestly think teens shouldn't be forced to read such content. It can be disturbing even for adults.
@@Ashe-q1f yeah, I agree. I don’t think that a child could even understand what happens in half of them, it might frighten them, and yet you have to read through it and analyse it like damn…
русским привет, остальным соболезную. what about those short stories from Tolstoy about a dog and a lion in a zoo? or poems about salaspils concentration camp and other things about WWII? it starts long before mumu. oh, and that story about kids who were living in an abandoned mansion, a boy and a girl, and a boy whose father was a court judge and his mother died, called the kids from the underground or something? дети подземелья or also в дурном обществе.
@@MitiklaWasHereкороткая история от Чехова, где маленькая девочка задушила ребенка, потому что сошла с ума от недосыпа. 7-й класс, если я не ошибаюсь
@@katatsumuri-san9588"спать хочется" 💀💀💀
As someone who has read it in both Russian and English I confirm: the translation is weird and doesn’t relay all the feelings the original manages to pull off.
In Russian this is one of the most atmospheric books I have ever read. Its depressing and grey depiction of imperial Saint Petersburg is on point, and constant paranoia makes you feel anxious af
Damn I need to learn Russian then
That encourages me to work on learning Russian again
Sometimes it boils down to translation. I’d recommend the Katz or Pevear and Volokhonsky translations. Katz reads similar to an American author, whereas P and V feels more like a literal translation (loyal to prose and such). I hope this helps!
The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of The Master and Margarita is what saved that book for me. I couldn’t read the other translations.
@@farrins808 P and V is a great choice. It’s my personal choice when reading Dostoevsky. Although Crime and Punishment can be daunting, White Nights or Notes From Underground can be more approachable.
I am reading the katz translation and this has been absolutely mindblowing so far.I have already read half the book in 2 days and it is very coherent and easy to understand the book.I always read contemporary and now after reading this book I finally understand why these books are called classics.This book has just become my favourite of all time.
@@thecrazygamertarun5265 That’s awesome! Translation can make or break a novel! I wish I could experience the novel again for the first time. Enjoy the book!
Ive got the translation by McDuff, havent read it yet but im wondering if its a good translation
It's actually a required read for high schoolers in Polands! Most of my classmates really enjoyed it when we went through it last years, myself included.
also in Serbia... this was mandatory lecture in first grade of high school ...
Why does everyone get to read such... High class books (???). All we've ever read was a book about a family that adopts a pig and another one about a girl who constantly messes up her life in the dumbest ways possible.
@@lilli4222 its common to read such books for polish classes here, after reading we have to talk about the themes, characters etc.
@@lilli4222In Poland you read at minimum 5 books a year ever since second grade. In elementary there are mostly fun books, mostly to show you some concepts or genres, like Hobbit to talk about fantasy, Lem's books to talk about sci-fi... And also some books about different family situation, not like queer families but more like abuse 😅
Later in elementary you read more patriotic books, and in high school you learn almost no to absolutely no polish (like grammar and stuff) it's pure history of literature, we go through every period in literature and read a couple books and shorter stuff from it.
Its has not been a required book for years now. Like over a decade
Nah that Russian to English to Russian to English joke hit to hard after finishing war and peace
I know right. I still haven't finished it because of the many words I have to translate in order to understand it😅
@@amakonadu4833 so true! And then the edition I had didn’t translate the French dialogue, I just had to give up translating and roll with it
@@SpartanGoaticus that's a good idea😮 I'll do that from now on.
@@amakonadu4833 I’m not sure what I helped with but good for you! Glad to help in any way I guess
Honesty, I'd choose Dostoevsky over Tolstoy any day. Analyzing all those endless War and peace scenes at school was torture, lol.
The "russian to english to russian to english translation" feel of it is so true. Honestly, the only thing that got me through it was reading it and listening to the audiobook on 2x speed at the same time. Also, sick rebinding -- that's pure art.
ur not really reading it if ur preoccupying ur mind with something else. at that point, just don't read it tbh
@@stygianmoon1716 they probably meant that they were listening to an audibook of this book while reading it
@@serinalupin8562That's so wild lol, I appreciate the things they're trying to do but at that point just don't force yourself to read it. The act of reading is akin to meditation, would do yourself and Dosty a favor to come back to it another time to really take it in.
@@drake7038I do agree that reading without audiobooks is relaxing, yet I still often read with audiobooks because it helps me focus in on the book.
I often unconsciously miss details in books by accidentally reading ahead and missing a few lines, especially when there are big paragraphs of exposition. By putting on an audiobook, my mind focuses on the words and I miss nothing.
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DUDE WTF IM ALSO DOING THE SAME THING. READING WHILE LISTENING THE AUDIOBOOK. i bought this book 6 months ago, tried multiple times but couldn't get past part 1. now ive only 1 chapter left to finish pt 1. this time im gonna finish whole book
Finally someone else who tried so hard to read it but just couldn't 💀 i totally relate to the feeling of the book being translated like 6 times over
I love Crime and Punishment because what the main character feels and thinks matches with my mind, the irrationality of it all. His sense of guilt and anxiety, along with his willingness to try and do good nature and want to do justice yet still feeling frantic and knowing he is bad inside is so deep and yet so relatable you forget his thoughts are from a murder and not growing up in a messed up highly pressured life.
It was the first time I related to character and it felt really meaningful to me. I remember thinking that it was probably weird to relate to character because how his head works instead of something like experiences or personality (although it did helped me identity traits I didn't realise I had).
i’m actually reading crime and punishment right now, and honestly seeing a lot of people in the comments saying it took them a long time to read made me feel relieved 😅 i’ve been reading it for 3 weeks now and i was surprised it’s taken me this long to get to the point i am (about 70 pages left), it’s definitely my new favorite book but sometimes it just feels a bit tough to continue!! definitely reading the other dostoyevsky books i have before school starts
Hearing how hard it is for everyone to get trough it sounds like a challenge. I'm going to give it a try. Surely it can't be that bad, right?
@@lilli4222like all books it depends on the person. I finished Crime and Punishment in a week but books like Beyond Good and Evil was, for me, impossible to get past even the first chapter. I think I got through Crime and Punishment so easily because at the time, I was in a similar mental state as the main character in the book Raskolnikov. Seeing someone put my mental state into words was like finding an oasis in a desert.
It took me several months to finish the book (mainly because of depressive episodes. Do not read Dostoevsky in depressive episodes, big mistake) but I'm glad to see that alot of other people took a while on it too
My friend is reading it and we meme on raskolnikov(?) and his horrible money tendencies
Best author ever! The Brothers Karamazov is brilliant. The attempts to read his work over and over again are so relatable.
Man, in Poland, we have to read this book for school
As a bsd enjoyer, hearing an author name that was added to bsd always makes me a little giddy
Yaurrrr ikr i get so happy when my english teacher mention them, trying not to look like a crazg person loll
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So real
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I used to hate annotating books or just changing them in any way other than the original book, but after a friend asked me to annotate their book that I was borrowing I realized the appeal. It’s fun to look back and see someone else’s thoughts as you read it yourself. Of course I won’t do this to my own books, but I find something quaint in annotations
haha it actually took me an entire year to get through crime and punishment. i was also twelve when i read it, so i think a lot of the cultural and historical significance was lost on me despite being an "advanced" reader. i don't have time now but it's definitely on my list to try an reread in the future. love the rebind too!
Same😭 I read it when I was 13 and it took me the whole year to get through it even though I really enjoyed it. It's definitely one of the best books I've read. (I'm currently obsessed with his other books because of it.)
Here in Russia students are studying this book in 9th grade. Which are usually 16 years old people
Bro couldn't know how many Polish people he summoned💀
Please tell me I'm not the only one with a love for bsd😅
Def not, I've been going to the library and getting books specifically from the irl characters/authors
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@@voyagersmarch8776 jokes on you, I love both
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That’s why I read the book 😭
I read it about 4 times (in russian), and view it as one of the most dynamic, chilling and emotional classics. Try finding a different translation! Maybe a more recent one. Listening to the audiobook should also help. :)
Theres a guy on youtube called Hippias Minor, he does a lot of lets reads of Dosteovsky, and explains things someone might miss or not understand really well. I believe he's either in the process of doing Crime and Punishment, or already finished it, but i highly recommend his channel
Edit: I checked , and he has finished crime and punishment
crime and punishment, one of my faves that also, funnily enough, ruined me too.
Words can't actually describe how much I actually adore this book, but I will attempt to do so. Crime and punishment is such a trip through alot of thoughts, emotions and I found myself coming into terms with my own loneliness and how i treat those around me through the misdeeds of the protagonist. Rodya is such a flawed person internally and he's so pathetic and unstable that it's strange to figure him out or why you relate to him. The characters around him that are supposed to be good are so loveable and the characters that are supposed to be bad are so irritating positively. Dostoevsky easily manages to trigger the emotions that are supposed to be portrayed and it's so brilliant to me. Additionally, his messy writing style where he adds on and on and details everything is my favourite. He mentions something very bluntly with foreshadowing and has the reader make an impression, then goes on and on with details and derails the thought till its brought up much later which makes me feel uneasy and its exciting. I find myself lost in the words and going through an emotional trip till I realise that the twist is right around the corner and it's just so entertaining. The ending is also bittersweet, everything is a train wreck at the last 2-3 chapters and I can confidently claim it's my favourite part of the book. No other book or piece of media has made me this emotional and I highly recommend it to anyone reading this.
I’ve always wanted to do a book rebinding for my favorite book, Resistance by Jennifer Neilson. But part of me wants to keep the original cover. I bought the book when I was 10 from a book fair at school. The story didn’t make much sense since I had no historical context but I picked it up again and after losing, finding it again, and just reading I finished it after 3 years. I sobbed over each character and now that I’m the same age as the original character I relate to her more and more. Over the years the cover shows the toll of time, tape, creases, tears, marks, the spine is breaking, but it has love to it. I might make a slip on cover, then I can persevere my love that lines the cover. Thanks for reading my little ramble, I love talking about this book whenever I get the opportunity. I highly recommend it, don’t let the fact it says it’s a children’s book turn you away, it will tug at your heart strings no matter how old you are. Have a lovely day/evening and happy reading!
You could try finding a second copy so you can keep the one you are attached unchanged.
@@iciarsoto8860 Very true. It’s not a horribly expensive book but then again I’d have the copies then-
Would you consider making full youtube videos about your process?! Im so in love
I can imagine reading it in a non-slavic language has to be pain. There's so much stuff that just doesn't translate well. Like for instance most of the characters' names have meaning that just go completely over your head if you don't speak russian or a language where the words have similar meaning.
The biggest problem of literature lessons in Russia is that we read all those books in age of 11-17. I mean we've read this book at age of 15 like what are we supposed to understand
We read "The Storm" by Ostrovsky and "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" by Leskov this year and lots of my classmates (we are 16-17 years) didnt understand, why couldnt the MCs just divorce (back then divorces were forbidden or very hard) and why did their relatives thought that it is ok surpress a woman (like in "Lady Macbeth..." MC's husband and the husband's father hated her since she could not become pregnant, although the husband was infertile)
Crime and punishment is a REALLY Difficult read.. it took me a year to finish.
After i finished it, it made me feel so smart 😅
Please post tutorials! I would love to see your whole process with a narration of what you're doing and why you're doing things! I wanna know how you got into book binding! I want to hear stories about your journey learning and thoughts on making mistakes! Please!!!!!
As a Ukrainian, i have really weird feelings about this. We read this in school, and then big war started, and suddenly, even people who loved it stop reading.
This was only my second of your videos and I’m hooked. These books are getting new life through your skillful creativity and attention to detail. Well done, sir. Well done!
I devoured Crime and Punishment over a single weekend in my first year of uni. I grew up very poor and was struggling to pay for my studies and rent while also working full-time, so I identified with Raskolnikov deeply.
I love it, but my most favourite is Dracula by Bram Stoker. If you haven't read that, I highly recommend it!
Your videos are very good. Could you ever do an "tutorial" on how to bind books yourself?
In Poland ,, Crime and punishment" is school book so every kid needs to read it
Read it when i was 14. Was in awe! Took me 2 weeks. In Russian ofc
I was gifted “Royal Arrow” by G. A. Aiken around Easter 2023.
I put that book down so often because I wasn't feeling it. During reading I was always tensed up and apprehensive of suspense or action - waiting for a plot that never came. I fought my way through to the last eighth of it, then decided not to finish the book. I asked around, then found out it was a later book in a side series based on a LONG series - which was why I never stayed on top of the many, many characters.
I’m going to donate it to my local library. It’s still in top condition and perhaps someone else can enjoy it.
I am so happy that your channel has showed up on my algorithm. I am very interested in bookbinding, and Love this kind of thing
Dont worry, there are books we are not yet ready to tackle, some took me 6 years to finish them, classics are hard.
Same 😭 first time reading it I so desperately tried to breeze through it but I didn’t understand what was going on. Second time reading it, more slowly, while annotating kinda helps.
I loved this book translated in romanian. It's my favorite from all and nothing compares to it. Especially the end- so beautiful and melancolic
Jackson! I’m extremely impressed with your work on these book covers. I’m a fellow book maker and a photographer. However up until now my hard cover hand made books have had mostly blank covers. I’m VERY interested in learning what this technique is and what equipment you’re using to create these designs. If you’d be willing to share some knowledge from one artist to another it’d be greatly appreciated!
I read it with a book club. Having discussions about it and reading only a couple of chapters before every meeting certainly helps ;)
Other classics that I really struggled with were Moby Dick and the Illiad. Nowadays if it feels too much like mental torture I'll read something light instead. If it starts to ruin your love of reading there is no point really.
Let me know when you are going to sell these art work. Cause some them books you make slay🎉
What helps me a lot is to listen to the audiobook! George Guidall reads it beautifully
I need to learn how to fix my book like you. Mesmerising!
That book broke me! That was the book that made me so completing my assigned reading in high school.
I read crime and punishment for high school literature class and i loved it! We had a big discussion with the whole class about the book and it helped grasp the book better, my teacher also added some cultural and historical context which helped a lot. Definitely in my top ten favourite books :)
On the dame psgw with you, ready notes from the underground Made a big impact on me, but crime and punishment was a chore to read almost finished
This came into my fyp randomly as i was thinking about the bsd Fyodor 😭 hes haunting me or yt can read my mind
You should read All tomorrows. It's genuinely one of my favorite books of all time and it makes me think about our current society's flaws and beauties.
I never finished it either. My favorite Russian writer is Ivan Turgenev, especially for “Fathers and Sons.” Anton Chekhov writes beautifully also.
Im actually reading the book right now and I've not experienced this feeling, perhaps the translation I'm reading is done better? In any case if you do speak Dutch, I can recommend Hans Bolands translation.
I can relate to struggling to get through a book. Sometimes the translation is the problem. I was assigned Crime and Punishment in a class I was in, I had to read one translation while the other came in the mail. The first one I read only the first five chapters, but it was so much less interesting than the translation that I was waiting for in the mail. That version was published by Penguin Random House, translated by Oliver Ready. It is phenomenal, I recommend trying that one if you haven't already.
Ooooh you should read Song of Achilles. It’s beautiful.
i am reading it right now actually and this is so true. it is really heavy, but it's so so worth reading, it changes your whole life perspective
I'm a literature major and have never been able to finish anything by Dostoyevsky. I agree.
So glad I just found your channel, this is a gem! I’ve only read Notes from the Underground.
Would you consider doing Anna Karenina or To the Lighthouse next?
Haha lol, I had the same problem when reading War and Peace, as the copy I was reading was (and this was in the translators notes) translated from Russian to German and then from German into English. I still managed to finish the book, but I had a hard time reading it at my usual pace because of the way sentences and paragraphs were formatted. On top of that, there were so many subtleties and euphemisms that I was not able to pick up on because of the book being translated into German before English, so I didn’t get a good experience from that. However, I still enjoyed the book and thought it was intriguing and entertaining, but if I were to read it again I would need to buy a different translation.
We had to read it in ELAR and though I admit I didn't read EVERYTHING all the way through it was still one of my favorites and I even got my friend into
I keep the book in my bookshelf
I've been seeing a lot of your shorts and it's honestly kinda sad for me. When I was younger I loved reading every book I could get my hands on. For multiple years I'd spend at least 6 hours a day reading, that's not an exaggeration I spent more time reading than people spend at a full time job. But I've only willingingly sat down with a single book, The Financial Lives of the Poets (solid stuff, good comedy), since highschool. It's just been academic works assigned by school. Im not someone who constantly shit talks the education system but I do have the gripe that killed love of reading. I truely mean killed as I'm not sitting here wanting to read but can't bring myself to do it, I'm sitting here feeling apathetic to the idea, besides the feeling of guilt from never going back to it. If I do return to any of my old habits it won't be through me forcing it as well as it won't happen anytime soon as I don't feel too pressured about it, for better or for worse. There really isnt much point to this I just needed to put this rant somewhere public
Pleaseeee read the George oliver translation of this book!!!! I was able to read it better after I found it
I personally recommend listening to it on audible. I have the book at home and I begin reading it however since I am a dyslexic with ADHD it’s really hard for me to make progress in a book especially like crime and punishment. Crime and punishment is one of my favorite books after listening to it so if you find that you struggle reading it, I really suggest listening to it. :)
I had this same situation when I first read or tried to read Kafka. Told a friend at work about it and he said it isn‘t the right time yet. Tried it again a few years later and it felt right, I could finally understand it. Give it a few years would be my advice. :)
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I couldn’t undo a thing…
@@Sinclairemil Well, I can’t shiver in the cold forever.
its one of my fave booksss 😭😭😭😭
If you haven't already, i recommend reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, the beginning is a bit dry and the author rambles about things a lit but the book genuinely changed my perspective on how we identify living spaces as a whole, and the psychology of people in awful situations
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There's a graphic novelisation of Crime and Punishment in English. It might be an idea to read that to get a grasp on the story, then go back to the text-only version. When having trouble processing language, it can be helpful to have something to supplement the words
Not the same experience, but I read “The perfume” a few months back. It’s very common to read this book in German schools, but I just really hate it.
My favorite Russian book
I love the way he wrote the main character, my friends always joke about us being alike (mostly because of the "broke depressed college student with violent thought" Thing) thankfully i haven't killed any grandma's... Yet
i had this exact problem when i was 12-ish. i bought crime & punishment and struggled to get through the first two chapters. in hindsight, reading a russian to english translation of an already dense novel /as/ a non-native english speaker probably elevated the difficulty for me lmao.
but im 23 now and currently reading brothers karamazov. u just have to give urself time. keep re-reading passages if u have to or feel free to glide past ones that go over ur head (u can always come back to them). dont be so hard on urself. normally, u need to get used to the author's voice only when reading a new book (& that's challenging on its own), but with translated works u have to acclimate urself to TWO voices: the author's and the translator's. once u get a feel of it, let me tell ya'll. u will reach a point in a Dostoevsky novel where u'll just go, "oh.......oh ok."
there's a reason james baldwin mentioned Dostoevsky when he talked about fiction's liberating power to make us feel less alone in our suffering. im near half way thru brothers karamazov and every chapter has me either crying or reacting like that smoking & shaking head duck gif (or both).
Here's how I got through C&P (as a school's summer reading, I was about 15 at the time):
1) Spend summer vacation of 1998 at grandparents' dacha (no computer, no tv, just books you brought);
2) Rains lasting about a week, so no biking, no swimming, even hanging out in the toolshed isn't that much fun;
3) 5-6 people in a 4-room house, including grandma, so slacking is not an option, and school reading counts as honest work;
4) Big-ass box of tomatoes in the next room, which we were allowed to eat as much as we wanted.
I still have a feeling that tomatoes made all the difference.
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Get a newer translation, some of the german ones are so fantastic, i am sure your enjoyment greatly hinges on the translation.
Also a little bit of a culture thing too
I absolutely loved this book!! Definitely one of my favorites. However, I also noticed that the translation to English seemed really awkward in some spots
Honestly, I hadn't finished it, too, even though it was required at school
I kind of liked it, but I had trouble finishing it, esp when Sonya's arc began
I think I'd watched a tv series, tho
It's definitely a difficult read and it took getting used to. I had to read and reread paragraphs and pages to actually understand the words on the page (which sounds terrible but to be fair it isn't that bad, I was just reading it when I was in grade 8). I know that it's a book some people like to gloat about reading but in my young opinion, it was really enjoyable and the end was my favorite part. I'm not sure why but I remember feeling satisfied with it and also bawling my eyes out. (It wasn't that sad, I just cry at everything.)
Surprised to hear that cause it was one of the easiest to read classics i read and mine was probably russian - english -portuguese. Very accessible and very fast to read. Maybe try a different translator or an audiobook
I wouldn't call her a wealthy lady, she was a loan shark. The core experience is that you don't pity "a rich, old lady" but see the evil the victim caused, yet you know the murder can't ever be condoned.
In 9th grade my teacher assigned different students different books to read, and I got Crime and Punishment, albeit a slightly abridged version. I finished it without any issues, but it did drag along for quite a bit. However, a book I've never been able to finish is Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola. It was assigned to us by my high school language and literature teacher, and no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't get through it. Luckily for me, that teacher had a habit of assigning us naturalistic books with similar arcs of unhappy love, that end with the main female character dying (usually taking herself out); so even though I never finished it, I was able to bluff my way to making the teacher think I had read it.
You gotta get the right translation The one I read was a breeze but I spent a long time trying to figure out which translation to use. Imo the best one is the newest, Richard Pevear's and Larissa Volokhonsky's 1992 translation.
I've read 2 other shorter Dostoevski books with no issue (Notes From the Underground, and The Double). But do have a book that tried reading several times and straight up kept on getting lost or dissasociated and unable to get through which was "In Search of Lost Time"
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Not with Crime and Punishment, but Interview with a Vampire. I loved the movie and I'd never met a book that wasn't better than the movie. So of course I picked it up. Usually I can read a book of it's size in 2-3 days, but 6 months later I'd barely made it halfway through, it was so dry and dull! I finally gave up trying so it's the one book I've never finished. Still love the movie, and the recent series was amazing! But I'll die before I even attempt that book again.
I would always say switch up the translation before giving up on the book.
I’ve even found variation in the same translator, for example, I loved the Constance Garnett translation for the Brothers Karamozov, but not for Demons.. though that could be attributable to Brothers K being a better novel.
I read it for an English class and I say the best thing to do is skim the entire thing, take notes of interesting lines, and then just go back and reread those interesting parts
You should read “Finders Keepers” by Roy Deering, which is short and sweet and technically meant for nine year olds but my sister and I loved it and it’s really deep actually and I think it would look great with a rebinding like this
I think, you may be surprised, but this book is one of many books that Russian schoolchildren have to read for their Literature State Exam if they choose Literature as their exam subject and want to pass it. There are different tasks and it is always a lottery which book you'd have to annalise.
For example, the majority of my exam tasks this year were about "War and Peace" by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.
However, it could happen that I'd have tasks about "Crime and Punishment", "Oblomov", "Eugeniy Onegin" and so many other great books written by great authors.
I wish I read all of them later, as an adult, yet I'm quite happy to know about all these authors and their creations. It can be a life-changing experience to read something like "Crime and Punishment".
I read C&P back in high school for an AP class and have been wanting to read it again since people seem to enjoy it! I tried twice in the past 2/3 years and keep putting it back on my shelf 💀💀 I feel like this video is a sign to give it another shot LOL
Strangely for me it was the opposite, i couldn't put it down until i finished it. But then again, if i think today about if i would read it again, probably not, my concentration and interests aren't what they used to be. It didnt help that i have a very old version in german where they still used those gothic letters. I still have it and it is my most prized book as my substitute mother gave it to me as a gift and i koved her so much.
I'm Russian and I also have problems reading the book, if you want to get into Russian literature you should maybe try "White Nights" first. A very short and easy novel, also very romantic :)
It's boring in the start , but when you cross a good portion of the book , you can't stop reading ! The book I read was in two parts , I took too much reading the first part , but I finished the second book in a day !!!
It's my favorite book ❤.
It was my lecture at school. I don't remember a lot of it, but I enjoyed the story and maybe I'll read it once again someday
If you haven’t already, please rebound Frank Herbert’s Dune. It’s a timeless classic.
I read crime a punishment a few months ago, honestly one of my favorite books ever, just a huge sucker for mentally tormented protagonists
I read the norton translation, a slightly more modernised version, of Crime and Punishment back when I was 14.
Its a heavy book with some grim themes and deep philosophy. I wouldn't recommend if you're having a bad day, because you'll probably feel more depressed. But Dostoevsky's ability to show the internal brooding and frustrations of his characters and the immoral world of St Petersburg they inhabit really is second to none
For starters to Dostoevsky, definitely recommend Notes from the Underground. A shorter wilder novella!
Do No longer Human By Osamu Dazai. Its a dark yet good story
Same here. Think I've tried it twice now. Rashkolnikov just isn't a likeable character and I think that's why I struggle to keep reading.
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It was hard for me because of Marmiladov's situation. The scene where Raskolnikov brings him to his house and his wife's children are petrified from fear and crying hit too close to home.
Really love the song of the same name never heard of the book