This was painful. It's about this dude who murders some old lady and her daughter. Then almost the entire book is about him freaking out about it, stressing, getting sick, losing his mind, and on and on. It was just sort of stressful. Not a bad book, though.
Okay.
Now, no insult to your intelligence or opinion, but if you think this book is
just about a murder and some dude ''freaking out about it'', then Sarah Palin is the new Nikolas Tesla.
This book is about so much more than 99.99999999% of what all other books can adduce. That being said, if you didn't enjoy it that much, then that's your decision - and I respect that. I just think that there are so many themes and issues implicitly addressed in this book that it is considered one of, if not,
the most venerable book of all time.
If somebody asks me to recommend a book I generally either suggest either of the classics, 1984 or Crime and Punshment; the former because it deals with more accessible issues to society. It is also conventionally a great novel. However I would refer the latter as there's a subtlety to Dostoyevsky's writing that is no longer achieved in modern literature; the depiction of his mental state, the description of the horror of (the) murder, the delineation of Russia in the nineteenth century, solitude.
Dostoyevsky wrote this after having been in exile for five years in Siberia. If the ending of the book didn't make you cry, then just listen to Blink 182 and get a face tattoo.