Instead of reading War & Peace I read Crime & Punishment

>>7588940

C&P gives less achievement points though.

>>7588940
what did you think of it

>>7588952

It was really intense during Raskolnikov's planning, I got way into the thinking like him which doesn't happen to often when I read but it was also like 1 am when I started it. I don't really know how to feel, I didn't understand the dream sequence where the horse get beaten, but if you read that part it's kind of like an expression of the whole story. Plus the bad guy ends up living happily in the end, all around 10/10 will not put through a paper shredder.

>>7588994
>It was really intense during Raskolnikov's planning, I got way into the thinking like him which doesn't happen to often when I read but it was also like 1 am when I started it.
Man, the exact same thing happened to me.

they're not really similar books at all. they're both great in different ways and once you've read one you should read the other

Read both. And Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov.

I've been reading crime and punishment and I just want to know one thing. What is up with Dostoevsky naming places : "S-----y Lane", " K-------n Bridge", "------y Street", etc. What are the names of these places?

>>7590737
It's a literary convention:
http://ask.metafilter.com/72590/Why-censor-town-names

basically it's a dialed down version of "protect the innocent" or "suspend your disbelief." Presumably with Dosto it was "protect the innocent," since you don't want your street being associated with an axe murderer.