This is a book I had read mainly in two parts. The first part was at the start of 2022. I had heard many great things about this novel and thought I should give it a go, but I gave in to the weight of Russian literature. It had really bothered me that I did not finish reading it and so I went for it last month. It is such a bleak book and as Clifford Lee Sargent mentions in his review, it is two pages of crime and over five hundred pages of punishment. I could not agree with this more. It was probably unique and relevant in the context with which it was written, but this was not the book for me. I will likely give the Brothers Karamazov a try in the future, but it literally sits at the bottom of my to read pile.