A review by meganwoody
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles W. Goddard

3.0

this book was so annoying sometimes. it has an interesting premise of what is morally just, if a crime can be moral or if all crimes are immoral, etc., but Dostoevsky did not need to make this 500+ pages. so much could've been cut out, and there was so much extra detail that didn't lead to anything. i also hated the ending and how it just said what would happen instead of having it happen in this book. i read this for book club, and i enjoyed the discussion, so i'm glad i read it, but i wouldn't have liked to just read it by myself, and i won't reread it. if you don't want to read 500+ pages about how a man thinks what he did is ok and spends the whole book trying to escape punishment and trying to explain why what he did was okay (and failing), then this isn't for you