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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's a good book for kids in school to read if you want to get kids to not be reading.
There are a lot more good modern books where the kids can relate to. Why have them read these old books that they won't relate to?
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I take it you read this in school then? I didn't, but I did study
Crime and Punishment in school and loved that novel. However it was only selected reading for those who had chosen English Literature as a subject for final year. I can't imagine it being chosen for general English studies.
I'm glad to have finally come back to Dostoyevsky after all these years. About 80% through now and I still can't stop taking notes on my Kindle. I'll have a lot of quotes to pour through after I've finished to increase my understanding of the author's literary soul searching. I was thinking that this story would either cement my appreciation of this author or destroy it. I'm happy that it's the former.
Still - it's been a bit of a journey.