<p>Has anybody in AP Lit had to read C&P?</p>
<p>Did anyone actually like it?</p>
<p>I'm persevering (read: avoiding sparknotes) because it's a classic, but O, M, G, it's HORRIBLE!</p>
<p>There are a few exciting parts but they quickly give way as Dostoyevsky's rambling descriptions and insane dialogue take over once again.</p>
<p>I read Crime and Punishment, but not for AP Lit-for IB Eng. I actually liked it...</p>
<p>I don't think Dostoyevsky was rambling...Nathaniel Hawthorne rambles...he writes a page to describe a single leaf.</p>
<p>I will next year, according to the teacher, who is the same one teaching my current team class with AP World History. And no book is as bad as Dickens' Great Expectations; it was the only time I have ever seen a full paragraph of twenty lines that said one thing: My name is Pip.</p>
<p>I read it...not for AP Literature though. Let's just say that you know the book is painfully long when a random letter in the novel runs on for 10 pages...</p>
<p>I read it and I liked it. There are multiple translations, the default seems to be Garnett if I remember correctly, but I don't like that particular translation to much. The McDuff translation is really good (I think this is the Penguin Classic addition).</p>
<p>californiakid ^^ that's the truth!</p>
<p>I actually liked Great Expectations. I like Dickens, though -- even when he does ramble!</p>
<p>My favorite author is still Jane Austen, though.</p>
<p>You were lucky that you did not read Notes from Underground, The House of the Dead. Stark, dark and eerie... Almost crazy.</p>
<p>I loved Crime and Punishment!! Great Expectations..meh, the parts with Miss Havisham are great, the parts in London just drag on and on and on</p>
<p>I honestly don't remember anything about London. I guess I blocked it from memory!!!</p>
<p>I have to read C&P next week. Should I be worried?</p>
<p>My advice is to read 30-45 min. a day on C&P. DON'T skip a day!!! If you do, it will bite you in the butt. (Luckily I have spring break next week to catch myself back up.)</p>
<p>It's not really <em>horrid,</em> but his writing drags on. You might really like it.</p>
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<p>I read D's the Gambler when I was 10, and I've loved Dostoyevsky ever since. :-) His name got an honourary mention in my yearbook because D. (according to everyone else) is my historic crush/literary soul-mate. That good old dark ironic existentialist. <3</p>
<p>One I started C&P I couldn't stop, finished it in a day. I was like "ok. Meh. that's a good book" right after I finished it. But I couldn't stop thinking about it for the next 6 months. Like literally. -__-</p>
<p>I've gotten into non-fictional existentialist literature too... Thanks to D and good old Sartre. In fact I just started reading Nietszsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. <em>College app pressure really forces you to re-consider your place in the world.</em> :s</p>
<p>A day???</p>
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<p>I'm reading right now. Im not in in AP, normal 10th grade english (but I'm reading it out of class.) The book isn't for everyone. I persoanlly enjoy focusing on human behavior, etc. I find it interesting to see his reactions to the crime. I personally am enjoying it. I agree though it is not the most captivating or thrilling (at times) novel.</p>
<p>You know what I really recommend for C&P? Print off a list of names just to keep them straight. I was reading it for fun, but half-way through I was confusing the names of the different cops so I had to do this just to keep track of them and it helped a lot. [Obviously I don't speak Russian, I'd love to though... any volunteers? lol.]</p>
<p>I'm a pretty fast reader. For books that I have to read for school the first thing I do is GOOD-skim them (not crappy skimming- but not really pondering things- just READING the story)... a few months before I spent about 40 minutes I think GSimg Great Gatsby. Of course I missed some of the fine details, and was actually sort of confused about all the "affairs" going on-- but I 'got' the story, and enjoyed it. Then I went on sparknotes/colenotes and a few other resources and read as well, and noticed a lot of what I had missed. Then I went back a week later on a Sunny afternoon (the day before I had the test) when I had thought a little about the book and read the book very slowly (2-3 hours). It has worked for me.</p>
<p>I really liked C&P, but I think I had a good translation that made it interesting. I read a bit of one of my friend's C&P (Different translation) and it was kinda dull. I don't remember who the translator was, though (it's in my locker and I'm on spring break). Richard somebody? I think it started with a P?</p>
<p>I had to read C&P for summer reading prior to senior AP English, and it was awful in my opinion. I'm not the world's fastest reader (simply because I hate reading...my mind wanders), and I got the characters mixed up like The book was long and dull, and in my opinion was a cruel thing to make high schoolers ready over the summer along with 2 other books. </p>
<p>However, the hardest thing I've ever had to get through was The Lord of the Rings for English 10...gah, that was bad...40-60 pages every night during the fall semester, when I had marching band rehearsals.</p>
<p>*like Paraiso said.</p>
<p>gah...</p>
<p>I think Crime and Punishment is one of those books that you hate reading but love having read. Once you're done, it's actually pretty fun to analyze.</p>
<p>It's okay.</p>