Crime and Punishment [Trout Lake Media Edition]

De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrado por: Alan Munro

Dostoyevsky's supreme masterpiece

A young student is haunted by the murder he has committed. Overwhelmed afterwards by guilt and terror, he confesses and goes to prison. There he realizes that happiness and redemption can only be achieved through suffering.

Public Domain (P)2013 Trout Lake Media

my first Russian novel ! great complex story

fine audio presentation of this celebrated multi-layered story. ..do not miss this extraordinary Russian tale

Could they have found a worse narrator?

What did you like best about this story?

I think I liked the story. It's hard to know for sure because trying to follow the narrator was impossible.

Would you be willing to try another one of Alan Munro’s performances?

I don't think so, no.

Any additional comments?

I have to listen to this in short increments to offset the rage that fills me trying to follow this narrator. It's like he was narrating a Russian translation in English but had just starting learning the Russian language very recently. Pausing mid sentence (mid word even), then no inflection, then constant inflection, then the same bad Russian accent for 3 different characters. Sometimes it's so confusing it's like he is choosing randoms sentences to read. I find myself rewinding after five minutes because I have no idea what just happened.

Wonderful book - if you can bear the narration

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

yes; it's a very long book, but the story is tremendously well-told and it tells us much about human behaviour.

What did you like best about this story?

it is a classic fable with twisting plot-lines and it plays with the reader's sympathies throughout.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

I bought the title more than a year ago, but I have only recently found the time to dedicate to listening to it. it is a tremendous book, but the experience has been almost totally spoiled by the performance of the narrator.i am sure he has an excellent voice for Audible but, in this case, his delivery makes the book almost unlistenable. his halting, slightly sing-song narration, with inexplicable leaps and stresses on random words and parts of sentences, makes it a hard listen. i've found myself too often distracted from what is a complex - and lengthy - text, by the idiosyncratic delivery. i love the book but I'm not sure whether i'll be able to reach the end - i might have to invest in another version.

Classic

Just a great literature classic, way longer than I expected, but worth every second of it.

Old Story

It's amazing how many new and current stories reflect this 19th century construct. Hard listening to the old story now.