This book is frustrating

I think I speak for all members of my group when I say that Crime and Punishment is one of the worst books I have ever read. Not that the writing is bad or anything like that, because let’s be real, the writing is fantastic in and of itself, but the plotline? Not so much. This story is mediocre at best! It is boring and redundant. I feel like I have been reading the same page over and over again. When is something different going to happen? I need a break from the strange thoughts inside Raskolnikov’s mind. Like I said in my previous post, I still believe that Raskolnikov’s next victim will be his sister’s fiancé, Luzhin. When Raskolnikov is bothered by somebody, what does he do? He gets rid of them. I feel like he does not know how to deal with his anger and his problems. His solution to “dealing” with people he does not like is killing them. Therefore, it is completely logical that Luzhin will be his next kill, if he does decide to murder another person. He is so bipolar and weird when it comes to dealing with other human beings. A part of me wants him to get caught and put in prison because  I feel like he would feel more comfortabele there. It would literally just be him and his own thoughts, nobody to mess up his psyche. Pulcheria describes her son as being “like two different people.” That description fits him perfectly, because he is the most hot and cold character I have ever experienced. One minute he is nice and caring and the next he is cold and detached from humanity. It is the weirdest thing to read about and it is quite difficult to keep up with sometimes. Honestly, I just want this story to end already. Getting through this book is exhausting and sometimes I find myself having to read the same page over and over again because I lose interest and immediately forget what I just read. This week’s reading did not reveal too much about Raskolnikov himself, which I found to be odd considering the whole story revolves around him and his messed up brain. I cannot think of one thing I have learned about him that was revealed by his own thought process and not somebody else. We learned quite a lot about how his family thinks of him through his mother, sister, and possible brother in law. Learning about him through the eyes of other characters was a nice change. It gave us a break from the redundancy of his own thoughts.