I have not, but I will now!

The book I relate to the most also happens to be the metamorphosis! I am sorry it is one you relate to as well. My life took a catastrophic turn in my early twenties due to chronic illness, I have experienced immeasurable loss but the greatest losses have been the social losses and the loss of belonging. I first read the metamorphosis after getting sick and it was the most poignant thing I have ever read. Years late I continue to live the life of a giant vermin and I think about the metamorphosis all the time. To me it is perhaps the greatest piece of fiction because it captures such a sad, and mostly unacknowledged, truth, in such a masterful way.

I hated pride and prejudice in highschool but I think I should read it again because she is supposed to be very funny. I did not pick up on the humour then but maybe I would now. Some people fail to see the humour in Dostoevsky but he makes me lmao. I’m not sure I would have enjoyed him had I read him in highschool though?

I think the biggest problem facing a modern day crime and punishment would be that there is soo much competition today. I would guess that there were way less books published per year then than now. Especially if you consider self-publishing. But there is clearly an appetite for books like crime and punishment today when you consider the fact that people still love crime and punishment to this day and you see a post on this subreddit discussing it pretty much every day…