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i like the part where raskolnikov pretends to sleep. Bad catch me sleepin LOL lmao

2 is probably the hardest to get through
After he meets Porfiry it gets a lot more interesting
There's another couple chapter slog later in the book centered around Luzhin but other than that, it's all good

>>11273723
i was very mislead on what i thought this book would be and now i don't now if i should read it

>>11273723
Tolstoy was here.

Dosto is an overrated hack.

>>11273723
The last two chapters of the book are what really struck me the most, but not necessarily the most exciting to read through.

>>11273852
this

>>11273832
Tolstoy loved Dostoevsky

>>11273823
OP here

Definitely read it as it is a classic of literature and rife with relevant and important themes. My gripe is that a lot of the anxious ruminations and dark fantasies of the main character (the most interesting parts of the book for me) are interspersed between totally ordinary day to day activities like his sister visiting him. Also, Russian names are fucking impossible to remember. I can't even spell the main character's name without looking. The value is there, though.

For me I felt the last 250 pages of the book were the best parts

When the officer is onto him is the best part of the book.

>>11273723
The parts alternate between his personal relations and relations to the law

They are also symmetrical about the middle

I personally loved the luzhin scene

Entry level Dosto. At least this one opens up with a murder and has an exciting inverted detective story aspect to it

>that part with the girl reading the bible out loud
felt feverish man

>>11276482
this

first post in ages, hello lit, stay psueds! *tips fedora*

>>11277613
Have an upvote good sir :)

>>11275286
Are you really having trouble with names?
Can't you remember Avdotia 'Dunya' 'Dunecka' Romanovna Raskolnikova? Or Sofja 'Sonya' 'Sonecka' Semenovna Marmeladova?

>>11273723
Dostoevsky believed in redeption through suffering, starting with his readers.

I read this book a year ago. The ending of part 2 is interesting and the whole book is just fantastic. Finish it, it is worth it. From Russia with love

>>11277605
>your waifu will never read you stories from the Bible

>>11277784
That's how I felt after Notes

>tfw no sonechka gf

>>11277969
lmao how? The book was hilarious.

>>11273823
What is the book's moral story?

literally finished it two days ago. I’m not sure if I preferred part one or two, I guess Mr Marmeladov was an interesting and depressing character to watch unfold.

>>11277745
Not him but even as a Russian they are annoying, specially when reading in English. Shit like "Sonecka" is just a painful perversion. Not that "Sonjechka" looks much better.

You have to be genuinely autistic to be unable to keep up with the name schemes

>>11278786
You'd have to be autistic to keep up with them

>>11278916
The names are usually listed along with a short description in the back of the book. You don't even need to be autistic to read Dostoevsky and keep track of the characters names.