It’s almost 50 years since I read Crime and Punishment and I so wish I’d had your recap back then. I remember little of it except that it was very long and very murky, and had a lot of digressions… or maybe that was The Bros Karamazov? Fewer distractions back then I guess. For suggestions - how about Villette?
Yes I think I first tried to read it about twenty years ago and couldn't get into it at all! It is definitely long and murky. Quite enjoyed it this time around, though - it was definitely digressive but I liked the evocative descriptions, and the characters are all surging with life and personality (...other than the murder victims). Thanks for the suggestions - I have never read either of those - maybe it's time!!
Villette because I think you’d enjoy it and The Plague because I read it way too young at 15 - it was the first time I’d seen a real library and one of five books I chose because something about the covers and titles called to me — and I can’t remember what it was about, except that there was a dead rat in the middle of the road. (I do remember two others of those five - Metamorphosis and Salinger’s Franny & Zooey.)
Love these, keep em coming!!
It’s almost 50 years since I read Crime and Punishment and I so wish I’d had your recap back then. I remember little of it except that it was very long and very murky, and had a lot of digressions… or maybe that was The Bros Karamazov? Fewer distractions back then I guess. For suggestions - how about Villette?
Yes I think I first tried to read it about twenty years ago and couldn't get into it at all! It is definitely long and murky. Quite enjoyed it this time around, though - it was definitely digressive but I liked the evocative descriptions, and the characters are all surging with life and personality (...other than the murder victims). Thanks for the suggestions - I have never read either of those - maybe it's time!!
Villette because I think you’d enjoy it and The Plague because I read it way too young at 15 - it was the first time I’d seen a real library and one of five books I chose because something about the covers and titles called to me — and I can’t remember what it was about, except that there was a dead rat in the middle of the road. (I do remember two others of those five - Metamorphosis and Salinger’s Franny & Zooey.)
…or The Plague?