clix1700's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
cookiebite09's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
alexandraboncata's review
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
imoshu's review against another edition
3.5
I love Dostoyevsky’s writing but I feel like I’m missing out by the being a response to another novel (which I haven’t read). There are some lovely quotes and the style is exactly my cup of tea but I am slightly (majorly) confused and may need a couple days to process
hannahwdel's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
j1ink0o's review against another edition
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Miserable, as are most Dostoevsky books, but I enjoyed it. I’d recommend this book to girls with autism.
oskhen's review against another edition
5.0
This book hit me hard. I don't think it's worth intellectualizing as that does nothing but hinder its effect, but I can't help it. It documents the struggle of a very self-conscious man struggling with, well, real life. He cannot free himself from his concepts and ideas of life and hides, terrified, in a dark basement from everything that would even hint at something "other", something existing outside of his knowledge. He sees through life as nothing but a play staged by actors who've lost themselves in the act, viewing this as the ultimate dishonest betrayal and is driven to madness from this chasm between his inner world and the events of "the real".
"We are oppressed at being men - men with a real individual body and blood, We are ashamed of it, We think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man."
Terrifyingly haunting and beatifully honest.
"We are oppressed at being men - men with a real individual body and blood, We are ashamed of it, We think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man."
Terrifyingly haunting and beatifully honest.
karenvol6's review against another edition
challenging
funny
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5