Category: Book review

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.

Yet again another classic which didn’t work for me. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this classic which it didn’t live up to for me. And I ended up DNF-ing it after having read 73% of it. But hey we don’t have to like all of the books most people finding enjoyable. 

This book was super boring and for me personally it was a punishment to read this book because there was almost nothing I liked about it. Of course there were couple of moments were it was starting to get interesting but then it was killed of on the next page. This happened couple of times and it really pissed me off because I wanted to really like this book and be one of these people who have nothing but good things to say about this book. 

The characters in this book were super annoying and super boring and I really wanted to murder them myself if they were real human beings because I just couldn’t stand them at all.

This book is very it’s repetitive and it basically says the same thing over and over again at least in the English Version I’ve read it in. 

The writing style here was super dry, uninteresting, boring and if I was required to read this book in school I wouldn’t never again pick up a book again because after reading this book I understand why some people hate reading books. 

The premise of this book sounds very interesting but the way it was told and it being mixed with super annoying and super boring character really killed the potential of the plot to this book.  

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov was such a buzzkill that I wanted to beat the shit out of him because for me personally he was the biggest problem of why I didn’t like this book. The best way to describe him is overthinking maniac.

The biggest problem with this book for me is the way it was written because this book and the characters had the potential to be such a big hit for me but the writing here made it impossible for me to like it. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

After reading this book I fully understand the hype with Jane Austen because this book was amazing and I found myself enjoying this book much more than I’ve expected. 

The plot here is amazing. But I found myself not carrying for the romances in this book. But it was super fun reading this book and seeing where the plot in this book takes us. The plot in this book follows two teenager girls and their romances which I found very boring. 

The writing style was super old school but at the same time very fun and enjoyable. 

The characters here were okay but I wasn’t the biggest fan of all the characters here. I really didn’t care for them but I didn’t mind them at the same time. Which is a weird combination. 

This book would have been one of my favourite books if I didn’t focus so much on romances and the same thing goes to the characters in this book. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

In Russia’s struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture’, as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation’.

I had kind of high hopes for this book because I’ve hear so many good things about this book but I also know that it won’t be a 5 star read for me because it isn’t something I would typically read but still I was disappointed in this book in a way. 

The plot was super boring for me personally and it really felt like torture for me to read it and I just DNF-ed this book when Ive read like 67% of it because I couldn’t keep on reading because it was so boring. For me personally it felt like it was lecture on way too many perspectives of this war which made me want to never pick up a classic again.

There were too many characters in this book which were so similar to each other that I just couldn’t tell them apart and all of the characters in this book became just the same person to me with different names. Leo Tolstoy could have done a better job here at setting the characters apart from each other because for me it was impossible to tell characters apart. 

For me personally this book felt like a textbook which came with very annoying, dry, stubborn and punishment loving professor built into it. After reading this book I reminded myself why I hated reading books when I was still in school. 

This book was also filled with long descriptions of battles which really made me want to shove a pencil in each of my eyes. These descriptions of battles would have been better if they were shorter and more relatable than they actually were. 

The writing style here was also very old school and it really made me so tired that I needed to take a break every 30 minutes. For me personally this book was mental beating just because I didn’t care about the characters here nor what happened next I just forced myself to read this book.

I Give This Book 1 / 5