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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
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Start date
July 1, 2017
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September 30, 2017
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Co-Winner - Big Read Poll - July through September2017

Winner of the THIS and THAT poll for December 2015

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Michael Finocchiaro
Jul 16, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: russian-19th-c, classics, fiction, favorites, novels, read-in-en-and-fr
I first read this book in high school and it blew my conceptions of literature away every bit as much as Light in August and One Hundred Years of Solitude. The first use of stream of consciousness, the deep analysis of Raskolnikov's conscience, the extraordinary plot movement and violence, the perfect narrative viewpoint...everything about this book is near perfection and at the highest level of literary achievement. For me the two Dostoyevsky books to read if you are to read any are this one an ...more
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Brooklyn
Sep 07, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: great-books-groupreads-completist
Praise the lord, Jesus - I finally finished this! Great book but the last 75-100 pages were hard to get through (might have helped that I stopped reading and picked up after vacation - Crime and Punishment is not for vacation). Great stuff - glad I read - would like to read in a class to fill in on the themes, background, psychology etc. I can see why Sigmund Freud loved Dostoyevsky. Also I read the Constance Garnet (sp?) translation which I found a little stuffy and might try a more recent tran ...more
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Duncan Campbell
Feb 10, 2015 rated it really liked it
RachelvlehcaR
Apr 27, 2015 marked it as owned-not-read  ·  review of another edition
Taz Shaikh-Shenk
Jul 07, 2015 marked it as to-read
Rika-sama
Sep 12, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: classic, criminology, 2018
Ev
Oct 28, 2015 marked it as to-read
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Janek
Nov 09, 2015 marked it as to-read
Valerie
Dec 22, 2015 marked it as to-read
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Kate Hardman
Jan 03, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Varsha
Jan 03, 2016 marked it as to-read
Eigen_Land
Feb 27, 2016 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Liane
Feb 21, 2018 rated it really liked it
Estelle
May 29, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
David
Jun 09, 2016 rated it really liked it
Chayanee Sukkun
Jun 23, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Jul 07, 2016 rated it liked it
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Apr 11, 2017 marked it as to-read
Katrina
Mar 28, 2022 rated it it was amazing
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Sep 01, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Feb 12, 2018 marked it as to-read
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Sep 04, 2023 rated it really liked it
Jess Penhallow
Mar 02, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: own-ebook
Annie Payne
Aug 25, 2018 marked it as to-read
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