Reviews tagging 'Classism'

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

22 reviews

sunlandic's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Xenophobia, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Cultural appropriation

skeptic_hecate's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 The book was slow and boring for the first parts. The last parts start picking up the pace and really tie the story together. I was very uncomfortable with the graphic animal abuse, I think a TW is necessary because the scene is too graphic and violent. This book suffers from r/menwrittingwomen in the way that women have little to no characterization, even fewer lines, or are used as a textbook description of hysteria. Only men enjoy the privilege of being written as deep and being constructed as real characters.

As a classic in literature, it must be read, however I do not think I will read more books by the author. The writting is very good, and the subjects are complex, however, it has a lot of filler and women are either caricatures of hysterics or have paper thin personalities 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Sexism and Classism

There is a very horrible and graphic scene of abuse of a horse.