Was recommended Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky by someone at work, as one of the best books ever written sort of mould. So im reading that now...
In all honesty its good so far, but not amazing. It was quite hard work to get into, and you arent drawn to the characters at all, not yet anyway.
Im getting the feeling that people who rate this are scholars who want to sit around guessing what the author was thinking, and his secret meaning behind every sentence. Or prentious a***holes who want to tell their friends what an enlightening book it is, and its changed their life.
As always ill finish it, cant stop now. And discard it as something ive read, rather than enjoyed.