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A review by crow3711
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles W. Goddard
1.0
The description on the back of this book reads "It is a cat and mouse game between a tormented young killer and a cheerfully implacable detective."
I need that meme, with the guy going "Well that was a *****ng lie." That is not what the book is about. Maybe about 7% of it is that.
Maybe I'm dumb. I'll accept that, as this is a "worldwide literary classic", but frankly, this was the worst book I have ever read. By far. No exaggerating. I have never been so miserable reading a book before. I only finished it so that I could have the authority of saying "Yes I read the whole thing, and it was the worst book I've ever read." Any other 1 star review will probably do a better job of explaining why. No book has ever convinced me more than people just say it's great because everyone else has said its great. It is not great. It's not even good. It's nonsensical, tedious, shallow blathering. It's a crappy Russian version of Pride & Prejudice with a splash of murder on the side.
Nothing the characters do or say makes any sense. The writing is utterly terrible. The people are not recognizable as human beings. At all. Their conversations read like an AI watched too many soap operas and wrote a book. It's pitiful writing. I don't really know what else to say. Impossible to follow, impossible to engage with. Every single sentence ends with an exclamation point or an ellipses. Page after page of circular reasoning, screaming, exclaiming, crying, and every other overwrought emotion you can think. I shouldn't even be writing this because I finished it 10 seconds ago and I'm still just enraged. If this were 150 pages, focused, and featured more thinking and writing like what was featured in the brief epilogue, it might be OK. But this was complete crap.
I need that meme, with the guy going "Well that was a *****ng lie." That is not what the book is about. Maybe about 7% of it is that.
Maybe I'm dumb. I'll accept that, as this is a "worldwide literary classic", but frankly, this was the worst book I have ever read. By far. No exaggerating. I have never been so miserable reading a book before. I only finished it so that I could have the authority of saying "Yes I read the whole thing, and it was the worst book I've ever read." Any other 1 star review will probably do a better job of explaining why. No book has ever convinced me more than people just say it's great because everyone else has said its great. It is not great. It's not even good. It's nonsensical, tedious, shallow blathering. It's a crappy Russian version of Pride & Prejudice with a splash of murder on the side.
Nothing the characters do or say makes any sense. The writing is utterly terrible. The people are not recognizable as human beings. At all. Their conversations read like an AI watched too many soap operas and wrote a book. It's pitiful writing. I don't really know what else to say. Impossible to follow, impossible to engage with. Every single sentence ends with an exclamation point or an ellipses. Page after page of circular reasoning, screaming, exclaiming, crying, and every other overwrought emotion you can think. I shouldn't even be writing this because I finished it 10 seconds ago and I'm still just enraged. If this were 150 pages, focused, and featured more thinking and writing like what was featured in the brief epilogue, it might be OK. But this was complete crap.