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How long did it take you to finish this? I've been reading it since mid September and I have 100 pages left. I took a considerable amount of breaks but I feel like it took me way too long. How was your experience with it?

>> No.12181606

>>12181602
Even the Wiki is longer than most books I read desu.

>> No.12181658

It's the next in my stack. What can I expect

>> No.12181661

>>12181658
Priests money and bitches

>> No.12181669

>>12181602
2 weeks. I had nothing else to do. I usually read books this lenght in like a month

>> No.12181676

About 2 weeks since I actually read. It would have been less if I focused solely on it, but I read at least 4 or 5 non fiction books in the process.

>> No.12181682

>>12181602
2 years

>> No.12181687

>>12181602
something like a week, it was one of those books that i found very hard to put down

>> No.12181930

>>12181687
>>12181669
>>12181676

Pretty impressive, I don't usually read tomes so that may have something to do with it. I find the book incredibly engaging and interesting but at times the prose didn't feel riveting enough to pull me through it the way something like Moby Dick does (which I finished a lot quicker). The plot is great and doesn't have many dry spells, unlike how C&P can be at times, but I still found myself exhausted after reading it for a couple hours, even if I enjoyed what I was reading.

>> No.12183542

>>12181930
>doesn't have many dry spells, unlike how C&P can be at times,
What did anon mean by this?

>> No.12183639

>>12181930
C&P is pretty tight too IMO

>> No.12183713

I read it in about a year while I was an undergrad.

>> No.12183841

>>12183542
>>12183639
every family melodrama scene in C&P is a chore

>> No.12183854
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12183854

I just finished it yesterday, took me a month. I loved it, but strangely it took me five days to finish the last 80 pages. Particularly Krilovitch’s long-ass closing argument at the trial, what the FUCK.
I want to be more like Alyosha henceforth

>> No.12184739

It took about 4 weeks. I had little else to do than surf daily, work 20 hours a week and read. I read it on a kindle, so it's mass and thickness wasn't slowing me down either.

>> No.12185036

Been planning on reading this soon but I have the penguin classics version translated by david mcduff. Does it matter which translation I read? I read the p&v translation of crime and punishment and thought it was great.

>> No.12186358

i've read it twice in two different translations, i probably spent 6 to 8 weeks on both altogether.

>> No.12186435

>>12185036

I have the P&V of TBK and it's more concise than the McDuff. Where P&V might say "He felt insane" McDuff would be like "He felt as if his head were in his foot". That may be a slight exaggeration but from what I've read of the McDuff I found that his translations seemed to take more liberties. Whether or not you like that sort of thing I don't know, but I've found the P&V enjoyable. Not sure what all the hate is about.

>> No.12186708

4 months or so, started at the beginning of summer and finished in the first or second month of uni

>> No.12186713

>>12181602
2 weeks, best book and best decision of my life. reread parts of it monthly

>> No.12186721

>>12181602
I have some books I have been reading for over a year

>> No.12187689

>>12181602
About two weeks, iirc.
Started slow but picked up at the half way point and read through it in like 3 days.

>> No.12187704

>>12186435
>I found that his translations seemed to take more liberties.
Can't remember where, but I remember McDuff explained that his translation was longer than the original because the nature of the language didn't allow him to be as concise. So according to him, he's not taking liberties, but staying closer to the text.

>> No.12187713

>>12181661
nice >:)

>> No.12187717

>>12181930
Moby Dick was a pretty quick read but i admit i speed-read through some of the slower chunks because it was for uni. I wanna go back and read it again soon

>> No.12187722

>>12181602
>he’s struggling to finish middlebrow
not gonna make it

>> No.12187775

>>12187722

What's highbrow?

>> No.12188948

>>12181602
it's taken me like 4 months from start to the part with the kid lying on the train tracks who is mean to mom.

the first half is basically sermons, pretty startled non-hardcore-Christians pay attention to it.