“And, in the dark, a thought came to me that no one had ever had before me: I wanted to kill someone, just in order to dare.” This graphic adaptati...
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Jan 26, 2012
Nick
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I haven't read the original version of Crime and Punishment yet, but I am familiar with other Dostoevsky works, and combined with the excellent quality of this book, I am pretty sure it is an excellent adaptation and remains true to the story and its themes. The artwork seems to capture the depressing-reality nature of Dostoevsky's Russia, and is timely and important. This version really seems to sum up Crime and Punishment without the hundreds of pages which can sometimes be tedious and oh too
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Jan 26, 2012
Amanda
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I have not read the original version of Crime and Punishment. To be honest, I’m quite scared of it. When I was really young, I heard that C&P and War & Peace were the two long, tough, boring Russian novels (I think I heard this from Charlie Brown, actually…), so that set in me a fear of these two books. Even though I’ve read lots of Russian novels now, including chunksters like Anna Karenina, I’m still terrified of C&P and W&P.
I sort of have a reason to be, because there are very few R More...
I sort of have a reason to be, because there are very few R More...
Jan 26, 2012
Jack
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Of course it isn't as good as the ever-so-excellent "regular" version, but it was fun to see Raskolnikov drawn out and wandering in his confusion.
I would recommend it to someone that has already read the unabridged classic already, lest the person feels they get the gist of the story, which would be a horrible thing to reduce Dostoevsky's prose to black and white panels with a general storyline.
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I would recommend it to someone that has already read the unabridged classic already, lest the person feels they get the gist of the story, which would be a horrible thing to reduce Dostoevsky's prose to black and white panels with a general storyline.
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Jan 26, 2012
My friends loved Crime and Punishment when they read it in high school, but I chose King Lear for that assignment and never got a chance with C&P, which I bought sometime around that year and have been sitting on ever since. This graphic novel is so slight that it is really nothing more than a summary, but by putting the story in modern times, and basically abridging the novel to 1/100th its original length, it still renewed my interest in the novel itself. That would really be the only purpose
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Jan 26, 2012
Fred
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The art was meh... The story was, well, I haven't read the original, but the story wasn't that wonderful. I think that there was some disconnect between the story and art, because I was left staring at a couple of pages trying to determine what was/had happened. Maybe if I read the original material I would like it better. The philosophically moral conundrum this book addresses never felt fully fleshed out. Therefore, it had no real lasting impact.
Jan 26, 2012
Steve
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I have not read the full-length novel, nor am I overly familiar with Russian literature. The Graphic Novel is visually interesting (the style seems influenced by Jamie Hewlett and Mike Mignola)and overall this makes for a nice, quick read. I admit there is a lot here I did not understand, and I would probably appreciate it more if I took a class on Russian literature. It's definitely not fluffy bunny subject matter.
Jan 26, 2012
Alisa
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I read this illustrated adaption of Crime & Punishment in one sitting at Barnes & Noble. While I love that book this thing was terrible. The illustrations alone made me want to jab my eyes out, they were choppy, terrible and not at all interesting to look at. Yes, having it shown visually made some muddled things a bit clearer but overall I absolutely hated this.
Jan 26, 2012
Michael
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The chief virtue of this synopsis for me, as somebody who recently read the full-text version, is demonstrating by contrast how richly detailed and complex Dostoyevsky's novel really is. Boiling it down to 119 pages of text and image, Korkos and Mairowitz barely have room to get the plot outlined, let alone the nuances.
Jan 26, 2012
Teresa (Read All Over Reviews)
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I really liked how they moved the story from old Russia to new Russia, it still worked really well with the subject matter. The drawings were great.
However, what I didn't like was seeing full frontal depictions of a teenage girl. That unnerved me. This alone is what caused me to give it a low rating.
*shivers*
However, what I didn't like was seeing full frontal depictions of a teenage girl. That unnerved me. This alone is what caused me to give it a low rating.
*shivers*
Jan 26, 2012
Julie
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This just didn't work for me. The art was pretty good, but it turns out the fundamental ideas in Crime and Punishment lose something when the text is reduced to what will fit in a graphic novel. Go figure.
Jan 26, 2012
Elizabeth
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This is a great way to quickly review the plot of the most famous murder mystery of all time. I also loved the artwork and the modern Russian setting.
Jan 26, 2012
Zaki
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Raskilnokov is an anti-hero and the best anti-heroes can offer is assertion of the self, at worst angst-ridden dismemberment.
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