Reading Response 3-30 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky was the most challenging book that I have read this year, prose-wise. Dostoevsky tends to go on at great length with his descriptions of Raskolnikov’s thought processes, which tends to lead to great blocks of text that can wear on the eyes after too long. However, I didn’t find the book boring - it was simply laborious to read and had a tone that was a little too nihilistic for me to really be able to get into it. I found that I most enjoyed the novel when the focus wasn’t on Raskolnikov solely, but rather when it explored his relationships with Sonya, Dunya, and Razumikhin. His interactions with Porfiry were also quite entertaining to read, as earlier on when it was unconfirmed
