"Crime and Punishment." Who's read it?

[callous taoboy]

I want to read another Dostoevsky novel and would appreciate a recommendation. Crime and Punishment is the only book I've read that filled me with dread, gave me indigestion and made my limbs feels heavy.

[ulysses]

1. Bros Karamazov.

:thumbsup:

[Chan790]

3. "The Idiot" is also superb.

I think in some ways it captures modern culture perfectly. Materialism and sex...that's what's important to many people.

[Arugula Latte]

2. I've tried reading it about three times ... Each time I gave up after about 25 pages ...

Just.Can't.Do.It. :banghead:

That book is fabulous for inducing a comatose state.

[regularguy]

4. I read it.

I read Brothers Karamazov first so C&P was by contrast a fairly breezy read. There's just something about those Russians that captivates me. I do get sort of freaked out at how so much of Russian literature is read in English via one translator (Constance Garnett). I've been thinking of reading a different translation of Brothers K; its one of my favorite all time novels.

[behave]

5. Loved the "crime", hated the "punishment"

[Sequoia]

6. I read it in my Russian Lit class in high school.

I was just talking about this book over the weekend when that song by the Cure, "Killing an Arab". I had to do a comparison of it to "The Stranger". I remember laughing about C&P in class and my teacher thought I thought killing landlords was funny but I had to explain that it was his guilty feelings that were so funny.