No.15901
So i'm a total newcomer to /lit/ and i want to to start reading by beginning with Crime and punishment by Dostoevsky because it's a strong recommendation by Jordan Peterson, i'm interested in psychology and philosophy but most importantly i want to read something at night that isn't harry potter.
Now my question is, is crime and punishment a good entry lever book for beginners?
As to my reading career, i really wasn't that big of a reader throughout my childhood as i spent most of my time on vidyu , i've only read the first two Hp books when i was like 12 and a few dutch books
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My mom is Russian and she's a quite literary person who mostly read alot history books about the slavic culture and origin, she even used to write her poems a and also read me Germanic and Slavic tales before bedtime when i was a child.
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No.15903
I read it in high school for class. So I guess it's there. I thought it was mundane though.
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No.15905
It's dense. Very dense. So dense, you can find entire university courses dedicated to analyzing the book. If you don't have any previous exposure to serious literature, most of the book will just fly over your head.
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No.15906
>>15901
>I seriously listen to Jordan Peterson
great, another fucking idiot.
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No.15907
>>15901
>is crime and punishment a good entry lever book for beginners?
Much depends on the translation, I suppose. Pevear & Volokohonsky appears to be the goto recommendation. Fair warning, translations are a hot /lit/ topic which tends to much infighting. Anyway, my impression of P&V's edition is it reads much like a modern novel. Makes things quite a bit easier for an average contemporary reader.
I think if you've read the Harry Potter books you should have a sufficient skill level to tackle C&P. I had no experience with Dostoevsky and C&P was my introduction. I found it to be a wild ride, and most enjoyable. Superficial murder mystery aside, I was held fast just wanting to know where he was going with all this, all the while watching the spectacle of various profoundly self destructive people unfold around Raskolnikov. What level of difficulty a beginner may face probably depends on Dostoevsky capturing you with the spectacle. If not, well, it's just a tale of some whackjob wandering a city of whackjobs. Seen in that light it might be a touch difficult to plow through.
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No.15908
>>15901
Why not ask your mum for some recommendations?
>>15906
If he gets more people reading actual literature then he's doing plenty of good in my opinion. Quit acting like a fag.
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No.15910
>Jordan Memerson
Everyday I feel sicker and sicker and I don't know why, I already have back up imageboards to go to now that this place is dead, but I keep coming back here and see only parasites like op sodomizing it's corpse.
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No.15911
>>15908
Yeah you know what else is getting kids to read actual literature? Cartoon characters on PBS. That doesn't mean we need to tell adults to keep watching cartoons.
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No.15915
>>15910
Maybe stay away next time around then.
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No.15921
>>15915
There's nowhere else to go.
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No.15925
>>15901
>that entire fucking post
Surely this is an elaborate ruse?
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No.16702
>>15908
your the one sucking Jordan Peterson dick
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No.16706
>>15925
Literature, published writing, and their readerbase is full of eloquent idiots.
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No.16708
>>15901
Lel, my first Dostoevsky was the Brothers Karamazov, off a reccommendation by Brother Nathanael some 7 years ago when I was in high school. I suspect now that I missed some of the "deeper" elements, but purely as a story it was perfectly comprehensible and enjoyable. Crime and Punishment is a lot like the Brothers K but shorter and easier to read. Go for it. Don't worry about over-analyzing it for "symbols" or "deeper meanings" like Juden Penison would do; just focus on comprehending and enjoying the story. Insights into the "meaning" may come to you naturally as you think about the story after you've finished reading it. Once you start reading serious literature, e-celebs like Peterstein won't seem so smart to you anymore; you won't regret getting into it.
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No.17047
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No.17128
It's quite an interesting and extremely complex piece of work, if you ask me.
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No.17129
I don't think that as a first book it will do. I went through it in college and it was hard to understand everything, in addition, when I did research on it I tried to check for plagiarism more often at https://fixgerald.com/ because I took a lot of things from the book itself. It's a great work, but I think you have to read it more than once.
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