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I'm re-reading "The Silmarillion" 
and I haven't finished "Fire & Blood" yet 
Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #60
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Finally reading Crime and Punishment and sometimes I laugh out loud while reading because the characters are so incredibly miserable and it just keeps getting worse for them
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I read C&P for the first time when I was 18 and re-read it a couple of months ago. I'll censor the spoilers if you don't want to read them.
The only characters I liked were Razumikhin and Dunya. I get that Dostoevsky wanted to show us Rodion was wrong and that he was mocking the nihilists, but Rodion was so unlikable for the entirety of the book, a whiny and miserable pseudo-intellectual being rude to everyone, that doesn't make for a compelling character.
The Marmeladovs storyline is pure misery porn, I hated reading those chapters. Sonya is just plot device, a pure thot whoring herself to provide for her family, I laughed whenshe told Rodion she would love him forever and follow him everywhere after he confessed being murderer while saying "what a wretch you are!", she exists solely to suffer for others and so Rodion can go back being a Christian, peak chud fantasy 
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Invite Rodion to rdrama.net he'd fit right in.
Devils, The Idiot and Brothers Karamazov are all better but those are the only four of his I've read. I'm not familiar with the history to know why Crime and Punishment ended up becoming his most widely acclaimed.
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Rodion is way too edgy for this site, he would probably post on WPD or /pol/
Me neither, is the only Dostoevsky book I've read so I can't judge the others, but C&P is overrated imo.
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Brothers Karamazov is probably the single most popular book in Christian intellectual circles, any book club I've been in (3) ended up including it and the characters are generally three dimensional and interesting. The Grand Inquisitor chapter alone would make it worth reading.
The Idiot would probably have more thematically in line with Brothers Karamazov and is more a meditation on virtue with a love triangle driving the plot.
Devils is probably the most similar to C&P of the three mentioned (dealing with the political and philosophical trends of the day through the lens of a terrorist cell) but was less of a slog to get through with better characters.
Would endorse all three above and in spite of your negative initial impression of Dostoevsky.
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I'll give Brothers Karamazov a try eventually. I want to buy this edition
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