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leonieslump's review against another edition
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
4.0
"LOL, laugh out loud"
Tbh i found it very funny, but thats bc i love dostoevsky's dry humour :)
Tbh i found it very funny, but thats bc i love dostoevsky's dry humour :)
eliathereader's review against another edition
2.0
Kitabı hiç güzel yansıtamamışlar. Araba, 20. yüzyılın müzik grubunu suç ve cezaya yerleştirmek saçmalık!
jholloed's review against another edition
2.0
Read this to get out of reading the long version. Glad I didn't read the long version, this one was boring enough as it was!
lspargo's review against another edition
2.0
Distilling a complicated Russian novel into a short graphic novel just made me more confused.
hades9stages's review against another edition
1.0
my favourite book….. ruined. this book is a crime against humanity
neilrcoulter's review against another edition
1.0
I was skeptical about a graphic novel adaptation of Crime and Punishment--one of my favorite novels--but I saw it on the shelf at the public library and the black and white illustrations grabbed my attention, so I checked it out. Now that I've read it, I see that I was right to be skeptical. The adaptation doesn't really work on any level. The primary difficulty is that Crime and Punishment is a very internal novel. Words, and especially the words of people's thoughts, are much more important than actions or visuals (though those are of course a big part of the novel as well). Dostoevsky's novel is a delight for a logophile like me. Translating that into graphic novel panels just loses too much. The visuals cannot convey everything that was in the words, and so the result is that this adaptation feels slight and confusing. With no knowledge of the original novel, I don't know how anyone would be able to understand what's happening in the graphic novel.
A minor annoyance in this adaptation is the present-day Russia setting. I see no reason for this, and it adds nothing to the story. It allows the illustrator to put generic "emo" artwork (movie poster for Scream??) on people's apartment walls, and that is about all.
The black and white illustrations are okay. They looked striking as I first flipped through the book, but on closer reading there's nothing really special about them. It would have been more interesting to use occasional colors--red blood, or other colors marking out places or people--but it wasn't done here. There may be a possibility of a better graphic novel adaptation of Crime and Punishment (I'd like to see Bill Sienkiewicz try it), but ultimately I think it's a tough project from the start and should probably be left alone. There is little to recommend in this attempt by Mairowitz and Korkos.
A minor annoyance in this adaptation is the present-day Russia setting. I see no reason for this, and it adds nothing to the story. It allows the illustrator to put generic "emo" artwork (movie poster for Scream??) on people's apartment walls, and that is about all.
The black and white illustrations are okay. They looked striking as I first flipped through the book, but on closer reading there's nothing really special about them. It would have been more interesting to use occasional colors--red blood, or other colors marking out places or people--but it wasn't done here. There may be a possibility of a better graphic novel adaptation of Crime and Punishment (I'd like to see Bill Sienkiewicz try it), but ultimately I think it's a tough project from the start and should probably be left alone. There is little to recommend in this attempt by Mairowitz and Korkos.
michael5000's review against another edition
3.0
The chief virtue of this synopsis for me, as somebody who recently read the full-text version, is demonstrating by contrast how richly detailed and complex Dostoyevsky's novel really is. Boiling it down to 119 pages of text and image, Korkos and Mairowitz barely have room to get the plot outlined, let alone the nuances.
laurelinwonder's review against another edition
4.0
3.5-4stars. I think this would be a great way to teach Crime and Punishment to high schoolers. It's much shorter than the original text, but touches on some big ideas that would be interesting to pull apart in the classroom.