it's just a book with words and stuff - now one can answer this question except you: pick it up and start reading

I always recommend challenging yourself with your reading, not every book but enough so that you expand what you’re comfortable with.

The biggest hang up some people have is the Russian naming system. And the writing itself is different than modern writing but by no means impossible.

His Notes from Underground is short and worth reading to get used to his writing. But I jumped right into Crime and Punishment and loved it without fully taking everything in. Dostoevsky is one of my favorites.

I found it easier than War and Peace, which was a real slog.

You'll know within a couple.of chapters. It's a good book

The Garnett version is a lot easier if you wanted to try that, the P&V translation might be closer to his prose style, but it is also clunkier.

I haven’t read No Longer Human (yet) I can’t comment on the similarity. Crime and punishment is where the main character has a superiority complex, an inferiority complex, suicidal tendencies, egomaniac tendencies, and maniac depression all at once and it’s a glorious ball of character complexity. Beware, the main character goes in twenty page monologues which might not be your cup of tea.

If you’re going to read it in English, I recommend the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.

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