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Originally Posted by gollu
I've read a few of the already mentioned in the topic books, but IMO nothing comes close to Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's definitely not a page turner like LOTR or Dune but the complexity and the descriptions are one of a kind.
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I couldn't agree more. It's my favorite too, and Dostoyevsky had tremendous insight into human psychology, as evidenced in
Crime and Punishment. He knew an awful lot about suffering too, having spent years imprisoned at a labor camp in Siberia as a political dissident under Czar Nicholas I, after having his death sentenced commuted.