“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
i can solve this discretion in this conversation. if you're always dreaming, well then, theres nothing but dreams to look upon. mind your own dreams and i'll pay you the compliment.
this is exactly why Western Europeans - Germans in particular - have such a staggeringly high rate of co-morbid alzeimers disease. I mean can be a ray of sunshine or a continuous tramatic brain injury to the head all you want.
Ohhhh!!! I am truck driver and therefore long driving hours are usual stuff. Many hours to be used, both driving and listening any audiobook i am interested or not. 🤪 The way this gentleman reads, made my listening hours a delight. I thank you very much!!!
0:00 Part 1, Chapter 1 29:40 Part 1, Chapter 2 58:22 Part 1, Chapter 3 1:33:52 Part 1, Chapter 4 2:14:25 Part 1, Chapter 5 3:00:00 Part 1, Chapter 6 3:28:49 Part 1, Chapter 7 4:05:30 Part 1, Chapter 8 4:43:40 Part 1, Chapter 9 5:07:25 Part 1, Chapter 10 5:27:45 Part 1, Chapter 11 5:48:06 Part 1, Chapter 12 6:19:35 Part 1, Chapter 13 6:48:06 Part 1, Chapter 14 7:17:36 Part 1, Chapter 15 7:45:11 Part 1, Chapter 16 8:22:10 Part 2, Chapter 1 8:51:10 Part 2, Chapter 2 9:32:36 Part 2, Chapter 3 10:15:35 Part 2, Chapter 4 10:32:31 Part 2, Chapter 5 11:13:01 Part 2, Chapter 6 11:54:32 Part 2, Chapter 7 12:22:36 Part 2, Chapter 8 13:16:35 Part 2, Chapter 9 13:54:33 Part 2, Chapter 10 14:38:28 Part 2, Chapter 11 15:21:38 Part 2, Chapter 12
PS I took a look at Parts III and IV and it does get depressing. I took it at the end of Parts I and II that Myshkin was headed for marriage with Aglaya due in part to the machinations of Natasya and the acceptance of A's mother Lyzaveta. I see I'm guilty of the same impulse that had Victorian audiences marry Edgar and Cordelia in King Lear, but I really enjoyed my happy ending illusions (while they lasted). And as such Parts I and II brightened my mood.
I got soaked to the skin and lost both wellies in a sodden bog, repairing a fence a pig had broken through. The light at the end of the tunnel was this reading and a glass of wine. Thank you Mr Geeson
Of all the books I've read in my life, this, more than any other, stands as the bleakest expose of human nature of the lot. Dostoyevsky is, perhaps, my favorite of all authors. I look forward to hearing this reading.
+jubjub2112 Well immediatly I like the Prince....I liked his humility...I was attracted to that.....but it was a very busy novel...so many characters and various things going on........I am not sure I understood what the larger issue was? Then again I have to be honest....I felt somewhat lost in Crime and Punishment as well......
I whole heartedly agree. It has been a joy to listen. His voice and style of reading are perfectly suited to this book! A match as good as Benedict Cumberbatch reading Sherlock Holmes...lol.
Does anyone have suggestions for a good reading of part 4? It seems as there isn't one by Geeson. and frankly I don't like the pronunciation and accents of the other readers I've seen.
This was my first audiobook and now it’s my third listen. The narrator is fantastic. Something about this book gives me peace of heart and mind about the sorrows of the human condition.
What an extraordinary examination of human behaviour, one of the most complete walkthroughs of it's vastness I have ever read. How precisely honest and considerate of even the most random, most naive and foulest of our thoughts and actions, and yet never veering into moral indifference. And what a shame that we can't have the whole of Martin Geeson's narration, he understands and feels for and with these characters like no other narrator I found.
Good God, mad props to Martin Geeson! Respect the project, but holy moley are most LibriVox recordings poorly narrated. Mr. Geeson is truly exceptional. Not only does he have excellent pronunciation of Russian names, but he understands that recording an audiobook is about more than reading the words off the page, but telling a story! Wish all public domain recordings were of this quality
This Martin fellow who's reading this for us, does a very fine job of it. His reading of Confessions of an Opium Eater is also worth checking out. Thank you Martin.
it would have much better if he had narrated the entire book, I've been looking for parts three and four but there isn't any other narrator who would match him.
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin - A young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight.
Amazing classic, the characters are introduced into their roles with elegance, their true natures are revealed with great subtlety, and unexpected twists. Dostoyevsky's writing style is masterful, a medley of first person, second person, and narrative, all seamlessly assembled perfectly. And, the energetic colorful narrator does the work justice.
Always more levels with FD. Pretty sure Myshkin and Rogozhin are one person - dark side, light side. Sort of a Jekyll and Hyde. I keep arguing about that with one of the Norwegian FD translators, who always waffles and hesitates. He looks like he knows I'm right, but struggles to commit. My opinion is it's mainly because he's afraid of being bullied at publisher's meetings. Anyway, the story makes more sense that way, particularly the ending. You should always go with the interpretation that makes most sense.
This is the 3rd work of Dostoyevsky I'm listening to and this is by far the best reading I've heard. The voices of the artist make me feel I can see the characters themselves talking.
I have read the book, but needed to refresh this great novel, written by a great novelist ,with such hindsight off humanity till Morden times. Thanks for making it available in present times.
This is part 1 & 2 read by the talented Martin Geeson. Parts 3 & 4 are read by a woman who, bless her heart, reads extremely fast with no differentiation among characters and has an accent that I can't listen to comfortably. Martin, please, I really need for you to read the last half of this book to me. Come backkkk
It's always sad when a woman ruins something cuz obviously It's not because she's a woman but it's like when they do dumb shit driving, it confirms stereotypes
Thank you for this video, your pronunciation is so good for me, I am Mexican and find it very clear. Love Dovstokevsky and this is an unexpected joy after years of not reading much. Light!
Brilliant story love, Dostoyevski really well-read audiobook, a good reading makes all the difference . Thank you so much for taking the trouble to make this available
A simple story told in the most beautiful way! The reader certainly make it even more delightful. I listen to books i know to improve my language ( English is my second language- perfect enunciation lesson and also soothing) thank you.
A beautiful reading and recording. I read this book when I was 15, the character of the prince stayed with me all this time, grateful to rediscover this classic!!!!
@@rmharding5263 The book is absolutely CRAP, and the reading, diabolical!! ... wouldn't even use the book for toilet paper! Rather watch paint dry, than read the above! Try reading, an author that can string more than two words to a sentence, that makes any sence!
The big problem with Dostoyevski for me is that I read him when I was too young. When I was 16 my very literate best friend advised me to go on a GREAT READ. That is read all the great books. I started with Crime and Punishment and 60 years later I am still reading. I read the big 4 of his novels and what I remember is the stress and suffering they caused me. As a kid I wanted Raskolnikov (C&P) to get away with it. "When the human heart is locked in chains love will find its roots in deepest hell." Such sentiments are not for a foolish boy. Soon I will read the Mill on the Floss which I know has a sad ending but it is not a Russian sad ending. I also read the other guy and I was sorry that Natasha got fat and Anna died in the snow.
It seems to me completely human to want Raskolnikov to get away with it. However, would he not have been completely destroyed mentally if he had ? Also, how different would our moral view be if the sister had not walked in?
@@lemilemi5385 But he was a university-addled fop. That was the whole point and why he did what he did. To find redemption he needed to get caught and confess. He wanted to get caught and confess. Once he took up his cross so to speak he was free. It was his cross, and if he didn't pick it up, soemone else might be nailed to it unjustly. Purgatory was St Petersburg and lies, paradise Siberia, the truth and Sonya. She's the key to it. A fallen woman who will only love him if he takes on his deserved punishment, so they can both find redemption in shared suffering and regret. Then peace. So he did get away with it. Just by way of the truth and Siberia, because it was the only way out. It's a beautiful story.
Superbly read. Martin put so much expression into his rendition. He has a perfect voice for reading out loud and goes just at the right pace. A difficult interesting book made much easier to follow by Martin. And all ad free. Thank you
Part 3 and 4 are missing. Excuse me if I’m stating the obvious. I only figured that out after being baffled by the abruptness of the ending and looking into it further. Still an amazing reading.
I swear I read this book 35 years ago but I don't remember it. I still have the paperback on my bookshelf. Is it possible to read and not remember this book? I clearly, intensely remember 'Crime and Punishment'... Greatest book ever! Discovered audiobooks putting on old Jeremy Brett 'Sherlock Holmes' adventures to wind down at sleep time.
I read this book around 6 years ago and could not remember anything of the plot, to my shame. I am so glad to have this opportunity to revisit it and to give it the attention I'm certain it deserves. This is a wonderful reading and I am enjoying it much more than my solitary plod through it in the past. I am a recent convert to audiobooks and RUclips is a generous resource - we are so lucky to have all of this at our fingertips. 😀
IMO you don't really get any other FD novels when you're young. C&P is by far the most accessible to a young audience. The others are much less frozen and linear. Less distinct at first glance. But very rich once you mature enough to notice it. I still insist that Karamasov is the best novel anyone has ever written. But I didn't think that the first time I read it at 19. Some things just take time.
I haven't lived long enough for me to have read it before and forget about I'm only 13 and I'm I've started crime and punishment reading it and I started listening to this aswell and I have fallen in love with Dostoevsky
Love love love it! Great reader, I cannot wait to listen to others. I'm sad to see only one other person comment. I love this story, strong plot and great characters. Read it people!! Or listen to it lol
Kellyanne Ortega I enjoyed this masterpiece while reading it in Russian. Now I delight in it while listening to it in English. I'm fishing for a compliment from you. Will I get one?
Just finished another version of this on my smart phone. Such a story. I'll listen to it again, perhaps here. Dostoyevsky is by far one of my favorite novelists. Probably my favorite part was Part IV, Chapter 9, when, in my opinion, one can truly see the weakness of The Prince in all its glory, or lack thereof. Thank you for this!
Oh yes, this is a very good reading! I like the voice, which is not overly expressive but very clear, well understandable, and pliant. Spares me a lot of time nailed in the chair holding up a fat book. Thank you very much!
I haven't been around long enough ta have read this years ago I'm 13 but I love the book and I plan to get crime and punishment from the library tomorrow and I've fallen in love with Dostoevsky books
There was a very strange feature in this case, strange because of its extremely rare occurrence. This man had once been brought to the scaffold in company with several others, and had had the sentence of death by shooting passed upon him for some political crime. Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die. I was very anxious to hear him speak of his impressions during that dreadful time, and I several times inquired of him as to what he thought and felt. He remembered everything with the most accurate and extraordinary distinctness, and declared that he would never forget a single iota of the experience. ‘About twenty paces from the scaffold, where he had stood to hear the sentence, were three posts, fixed in the ground, to which to fasten the criminals (of whom there were several). The first three criminals were taken to the posts, dressed in long white tunics, with white caps drawn over their faces, so that they could not see the rifles pointed at them. Then a group of soldiers took their stand opposite to each post. My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up. A priest went about among them with a cross: and there was about five minutes of time left for him to live. ‘He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment, so that he made several arrangements, dividing up the time into portions-one for saying farewell to his companions, two minutes for that; then a couple more for thinking over his own life and career and all about himself; and another minute for a last look around. He remembered having divided his time like this quite well. While saying good- bye to his friends he recollected asking one of them some very usual everyday question, and being much interested in the answer. Then having bade farewell, he embarked upon those two minutes which he had allotted to looking into himself; he knew beforehand what he was going to think about. He wished to put it to himself as quickly and clearly as possible, that here was he, a living, thinking man, and that in three minutes he would be nobody; or if somebody or something, then what and where? He thought he would decide this question once for all in these last three minutes. A little way off there stood a church, and its gilded spire glittered in the sun. He remembered staring stubbornly at this spire, and at the rays of light sparkling from it. He could not tear his eyes from these rays of light; he got the idea that these rays were his new nature, and that in three minutes he would become one of them, amalgamated somehow with them. ‘The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, ‘What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!’ He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.’
This is all so great, thank you so much for posting...I've been sick and I've never had the time before to read this book but have always wanted to and now you've made it possible, and have done an extremely good job of it, once again, Thank You.
I too love Fyodor Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekov. They take the readers as well as the human kind to ahigher level. It is aspiritual journey. They simply dig out what all human burried in thehuman beings.very noble. I simply admire and adore them. They nurture and culture the human souls. Go on feed the human kindWith the Empathy.
I attempted listening to hanmaids tale and the sheer difference in the word use is almost funny. I find my self smiling at every other line of this book
I first read this book while working nights as a ‘ward clerk’ in a locked psychiatric facility. I was assigned to a ward each night and had a good 3 hours of down times between 1 and 4 AM. What a joyful surprise this book became and I learned more about the working of the human mind, and myself. Then the Brother K was like a vision of male psychology in an abstract world of sex role conceptualizations. The rest they say is history!!!!
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The first part especially of The Idiot is amazing. Every passage is a quote. I think he said it was his best writing? Yup. It's hilarious and ingenious. This translation into English is apparently great
So so true ! Mighty are right pray they not only make people obey Uma . But continue teaching learning to serve with love. Thank you divine universe. Help me with endurance to learn.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
excellent!!!!
.....If you’re forward looking , making plans , working toward some aim or goal , it can be more than that ....it’s vision .
sue eason do u live this way?
i can solve this discretion in this conversation. if you're always dreaming, well then, theres nothing but dreams to look upon. mind your own dreams and i'll pay you the compliment.
this is exactly why Western Europeans - Germans in particular - have such a staggeringly high rate of co-morbid alzeimers disease. I mean can be a ray of sunshine or a continuous tramatic brain injury to the head all you want.
Ohhhh!!! I am truck driver and therefore long driving hours are usual stuff.
Many hours to be used, both driving and listening any audiobook i am interested or not. 🤪
The way this gentleman reads, made my listening hours a delight.
I thank you very much!!!
Thanks for your occupation brotha. People take truck drivers and farmers in specific for granted lol. Happy driving 🤘🏻
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29:40 Part 1, Chapter 2
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1:33:52 Part 1, Chapter 4
2:14:25 Part 1, Chapter 5
3:00:00 Part 1, Chapter 6
3:28:49 Part 1, Chapter 7
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4:43:40 Part 1, Chapter 9
5:07:25 Part 1, Chapter 10
5:27:45 Part 1, Chapter 11
5:48:06 Part 1, Chapter 12
6:19:35 Part 1, Chapter 13
6:48:06 Part 1, Chapter 14
7:17:36 Part 1, Chapter 15
7:45:11 Part 1, Chapter 16
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9:32:36 Part 2, Chapter 3
10:15:35 Part 2, Chapter 4
10:32:31 Part 2, Chapter 5
11:13:01 Part 2, Chapter 6
11:54:32 Part 2, Chapter 7
12:22:36 Part 2, Chapter 8
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After years of soul draining events, especially this year, I found this reader's sensitive reading of Dostoyevsky soul restoring. Thank you!
PS I took a look at Parts III and IV and it does get depressing. I took it at the end of Parts I and II that Myshkin was headed for marriage with Aglaya due in part to the machinations of Natasya and the acceptance of A's mother Lyzaveta. I see I'm guilty of the same impulse that had Victorian audiences marry Edgar and Cordelia in King Lear, but I really enjoyed my happy ending illusions (while they lasted). And as such Parts I and II brightened my mood.
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I’m unable to put into words my gratitude to you for taking the time to deliver this book the way you did. Much respect
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@@johanvanheerden9412 it was a very lekker book 😊
I got soaked to the skin and lost both wellies in a sodden bog, repairing a fence a pig had broken through. The light at the end of the tunnel was this reading and a glass of wine. Thank you Mr Geeson
Pigs are jerks.
It's been 2 years, and I hope things are much better for you now. Wishing you well, with many more better days on the horizon!
I wish you all that makes you happy @@ForReal_Lauren
Of all the books I've read in my life, this, more than any other, stands as the bleakest expose of human nature of the lot. Dostoyevsky is, perhaps, my favorite of all authors. I look forward to hearing this reading.
+John Moonitz I just read it recently ......I am not sure I fully understand this work? I will have to reread this classic!
+Albertanator Interesting .....what did you get out of it?
+Albertanator Prince Myshkin aside, is there a single character in this novel with even the slightest, meaningful, redeeming qualities?
+jubjub2112 Well immediatly I like the Prince....I liked his humility...I was attracted to that.....but it was a very busy novel...so many characters and various things going on........I am not sure I understood what the larger issue was? Then again I have to be honest....I felt somewhat lost in Crime and Punishment as well......
+jubjub2112 That's a good question.....I will have to think on that....
The narrator of this story is amazing in his interpretation and ability to discern the qualities of the characters.
In this book, the author says: " The beauty will save the world". Great book. Thanks for sharing and reading.
I love Martin Geeson's reading. His pronunciations of the names are phenomenal and his voices are superb!
I whole heartedly agree. It has been a joy to listen. His voice and style of reading are perfectly suited to this book! A match as good as Benedict Cumberbatch reading Sherlock Holmes...lol.
Your so right. Do you know of another novel he has read?
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@@LuvMy7Fuzzies thanks.
Does anyone have suggestions for a good reading of part 4? It seems as there isn't one by Geeson. and frankly I don't like the pronunciation and accents of the other readers I've seen.
Based off cover alone. This showing up in my recommended, feels like a low key jab.
LOL - "Hey, dummy. Here are some titles that you might enjoy"
@@MrWolfTickets the algorithms petty af 😭
You got off easy, if the algorithm really disrespects you it runs through a whole alphabetical list: A-wipe, B-head, C-sucker, D-bag, etc.
WadiFok fucking brillant ✨ comment 😂
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This was my first audiobook and now it’s my third listen. The narrator is fantastic. Something about this book gives me peace of heart and mind about the sorrows of the human condition.
Such a great writer even translated
What an extraordinary examination of human behaviour, one of the most complete walkthroughs of it's vastness I have ever read. How precisely honest and considerate of even the most random, most naive and foulest of our thoughts and actions, and yet never veering into moral indifference. And what a shame that we can't have the whole of Martin Geeson's narration, he understands and feels for and with these characters like no other narrator I found.
Good God, mad props to Martin Geeson! Respect the project, but holy moley are most LibriVox recordings poorly narrated. Mr. Geeson is truly exceptional. Not only does he have excellent pronunciation of Russian names, but he understands that recording an audiobook is about more than reading the words off the page, but telling a story! Wish all public domain recordings were of this quality
Totally agreed, masterfully narrated
This Martin fellow who's reading this for us, does a very fine job of it. His reading of Confessions of an Opium Eater is also worth checking out. Thank you Martin.
Crazeyfor67 thank you martin!
it would have much better if he had narrated the entire book, I've been looking for parts three and four but there isn't any other narrator who would match him.
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin - A young man whose goodness, open-hearted simplicity and guilelessness lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight.
Should use quotation marks when quoting.
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Part One:
1. 0:00:00
2. 0:29:38
3. 0:58:22
4. 1:33:50
5. 2:14:24
6. 3:00:00
7: 3:28:48
8. 4:05:26
9. 4:43:34
10. 5:07:20
11. 5:27:44
12. 5:48:04
13. 6:19:34
14. 6:48:04
15. 7:17:32
16. 7:45:26
Part Two:
1. 8:22:04
2. 8:51:08
3. 9:32:32
4. 10:15:34
5. 10:32:30
6. 11:13:00
7. 11:54:28
8. 12:22:34
9. 13:16:32
10. 13:54:34
11. 14:38:28
12. 15:21:40
Parts three and four are not included.
Thanks bro
Thank u
13:39:00 hoes mad part
Daniel Velkov Accurate.
Thanks.
Thank you for highlighting this author, the reader and the website. It gives me comfort to know literature and art will not entirely fade through time
Dostoyevsky was truly a brilliant of his time - his characters are phenomenally written. Hope to read more of his works in the future 😄
Brilliance in any time, gifted by god!
Crime and Punishment soooo good.❤
Brilliant in any time, really 😉
Amazing classic, the characters are introduced into their roles with elegance, their true natures are revealed with great subtlety, and unexpected twists. Dostoyevsky's writing style is masterful, a medley of first person, second person, and narrative, all seamlessly assembled perfectly. And, the energetic colorful narrator does the work justice.
Always more levels with FD. Pretty sure Myshkin and Rogozhin are one person - dark side, light side. Sort of a Jekyll and Hyde. I keep arguing about that with one of the Norwegian FD translators, who always waffles and hesitates. He looks like he knows I'm right, but struggles to commit. My opinion is it's mainly because he's afraid of being bullied at publisher's meetings. Anyway, the story makes more sense that way, particularly the ending. You should always go with the interpretation that makes most sense.
This is the 3rd work of Dostoyevsky I'm listening to and this is by far the best reading I've heard. The voices of the artist make me feel I can see the characters themselves talking.
I have read the book, but needed to refresh this great novel, written by a great novelist ,with such hindsight off humanity till Morden times. Thanks for making it available in present times.
This is part 1 & 2 read by the talented Martin Geeson. Parts 3 & 4 are read by a woman who, bless her heart, reads extremely fast with no differentiation among characters and has an accent that I can't listen to comfortably. Martin, please, I really need for you to read the last half of this book to me. Come backkkk
Can’t argue more.
I agree
I'm sorry, but in all my years listening to audio books, female readers are often the worst, like to the point I have to turn it off, why is that?
It's always sad when a woman ruins something cuz obviously It's not because she's a woman but it's like when they do dumb shit driving, it confirms stereotypes
Oh fuck
The quality of this recording is amazing, the reading professional!
Thank you for this video, your pronunciation is so good for me, I am Mexican and find it very clear. Love Dovstokevsky and this is an unexpected joy after years of not reading much. Light!
Brilliant story love, Dostoyevski really well-read audiobook, a good reading makes all the difference . Thank you so much for taking the trouble to make this available
A simple story told in the most beautiful way! The reader certainly make it even more delightful. I listen to books i know to improve my language ( English is my second language- perfect enunciation lesson and also soothing) thank you.
~ Absolutely agree. The reader makes all the difference. Many times I've started on an audiobook only to stop it because the reader is unsuitable.
Brilliant reading of a very good translation. Thanks from Moscow, Russia!
This writing is beyond amazing! And the reader was as well! BRAVO and thanks for sharing!
A beautiful reading and recording. I read this book when I was 15, the character of the prince stayed with me all this time, grateful to rediscover this classic!!!!
Classic? Worst book every written! Complete and utter crap, from start to finish! He just can't write
@@rmharding5263 The book is absolutely CRAP, and the reading, diabolical!! ... wouldn't even use the book for toilet paper! Rather watch paint dry, than read the above! Try reading, an author that can string more than two words to a sentence, that makes any sence!
@@kevincasson9848 are you okay ?
@@BD-gd9fe yes thankyou! And you?
@@kevincasson9848 I’m in a dream.
The big problem with Dostoyevski for me is that I read him when I was too young. When I was 16 my very literate best friend advised me to go on a GREAT READ. That is read all the great books. I started with Crime and Punishment and 60 years later I am still reading. I read the big 4 of his novels and what I remember is the stress and suffering they caused me. As a kid I wanted Raskolnikov (C&P) to get away with it. "When the human heart is locked in chains love will find its roots in deepest hell." Such sentiments are not for a foolish boy. Soon I will read the Mill on the Floss which I know has a sad ending but it is not a Russian sad ending. I also read the other guy and I was sorry that Natasha got fat and Anna died in the snow.
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at 50 and still want Raskolnikov to get away with it
It seems to me completely human to want Raskolnikov to get away with it. However, would he not have been completely destroyed mentally if he had ? Also, how different would our moral view be if the sister had not walked in?
@@lemilemi5385 But he was a university-addled fop. That was the whole point and why he did what he did. To find redemption he needed to get caught and confess. He wanted to get caught and confess. Once he took up his cross so to speak he was free. It was his cross, and if he didn't pick it up, soemone else might be nailed to it unjustly. Purgatory was St Petersburg and lies, paradise Siberia, the truth and Sonya. She's the key to it. A fallen woman who will only love him if he takes on his deserved punishment, so they can both find redemption in shared suffering and regret. Then peace.
So he did get away with it. Just by way of the truth and Siberia, because it was the only way out. It's a beautiful story.
Though it's a Librevox recording, I have to say this recording is amazing. I can't imagine a better narrator.
The orator for this book could not be exceeded - thoroughly enjoyed this - thank you
Orator lol
Superbly read. Martin put so much expression into his rendition. He has a perfect voice for reading out loud and goes just at the right pace. A difficult interesting book made much easier to follow by Martin. And all ad free. Thank you
Part 3 and 4 are missing. Excuse me if I’m stating the obvious. I only figured that out after being baffled by the abruptness of the ending and looking into it further. Still an amazing reading.
thanks i was gonna download and convert to mp3 - to listen out camping -nope not with parts missing ..
are they missing for sure? because it says below they are here? thank you
Same though. I was like, that's how it ends? lol
I've been listening for only one hour, giggle, smirk. I LOVE the unfolding of this character.
Imagine reading it 😂
This is one of the most well read librivox audiobooks I've ever heard. A pleasure to listen to.
I agree. I try to read Dostoevsky in English and it sounds so nice!
Yes, Martin Geeson here and Elizabeth Klett, the lady who reads Goblin Market are my favourite librivox narrators.
I swear I read this book 35 years ago but I don't remember it. I still have the paperback on my bookshelf. Is it possible to read and not remember this book? I clearly, intensely remember 'Crime and Punishment'... Greatest book ever!
Discovered audiobooks putting on old Jeremy Brett 'Sherlock Holmes' adventures to wind down at sleep time.
35 years is a lifetime away, a past incarnation you might say, I just opened the icebox and instantly forgot what for..
I read this book around 6 years ago and could not remember anything of the plot, to my shame. I am so glad to have this opportunity to revisit it and to give it the attention I'm certain it deserves. This is a wonderful reading and I am enjoying it much more than my solitary plod through it in the past. I am a recent convert to audiobooks and RUclips is a generous resource - we are so lucky to have all of this at our fingertips. 😀
IMO you don't really get any other FD novels when you're young. C&P is by far the most accessible to a young audience. The others are much less frozen and linear. Less distinct at first glance. But very rich once you mature enough to notice it. I still insist that Karamasov is the best novel anyone has ever written. But I didn't think that the first time I read it at 19. Some things just take time.
I haven't lived long enough for me to have read it before and forget about I'm only 13 and I'm I've started crime and punishment reading it and I started listening to this aswell and I have fallen in love with Dostoevsky
I found this one the strangest of his novels. It escapes my memory too, and I've read it several times
Dostoyevsky brutally tore apart my heart and stamped on its peaces a bunch
You have a perfect reading voice. Such a pleasure to listen to.
Love love love it! Great reader, I cannot wait to listen to others. I'm sad to see only one other person comment. I love this story, strong plot and great characters. Read it people!! Or listen to it lol
+Kellyanne Ortega And read it again, second time, as the characters' early actions then make sense and contain rich further meaning.
I read the book several times and always discover some new aspect. I love Russian authors, and especially Dostojevski
Kellyanne Ortega I enjoyed this masterpiece while reading it in Russian. Now I delight in it while listening to it in English. I'm fishing for a compliment from you. Will I get one?
I think I'll try to find a hard copy. I think I miss a bit in the hearing of it. But thank you librivox and reader.
Listening
His reading is flawless 🤩
This is unbelievably good for a Librivox book. What a treat! Thank you!
Just finished another version of this on my smart phone. Such a story. I'll listen to it again, perhaps here. Dostoyevsky is by far one of my favorite novelists. Probably my favorite part was Part IV, Chapter 9, when, in my opinion, one can truly see the weakness of The Prince in all its glory, or lack thereof.
Thank you for this!
No Martin Geeson for parts 3 & 4.
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Anyway... Thanks, Martin ❤️ I had a great time listening to your superb voice acting. 10/10
Mr. Geeson’s reading of this was excellent and added so much life to the text.
Thoroughly enjoyed this wonderful reading of the masterpiece👍👍👍
Thanks you so very much for reading this book with such sensitivity and clarity, and timing. Your voice was shush a joy to listen to.
Naming a book after me, why thank you!
Thank you, Martin, met your voice while listening to Oskar Wilds's His Life and Confessions
Finally, the right tone in telling a story! One of my favs, thanks!
Bravo! One of the best Librivox Recordings i have yet heard!
watch at 1.25 or 1.5 times the speed . It's not too fast and you will shave off hours from the audiobook.
or if your slow thinking like me slow down to .75 , close your eyes and enjoy the slow ride
I listened at .25 at it took me years
nubs go x2
Enjoy Geeson's voice for as long as you can, because the rest is read by other... persons.
Thanks for the tip~! Appreciate it much
Oh yes, this is a very good reading! I like the voice, which is not overly expressive but very clear, well understandable, and pliant. Spares me a lot of time nailed in the chair holding up a fat book. Thank you very much!
part 1
30:11 chap 2
58:28 chap 3
01:34:02 chap4
02:14:53 chap5
03:00:09 chap 6
03:28:53 chap 7
04:05:39 chap 8
04:44:10 chap 9
05:07:27 chap 10
05:27:49 chap 11
05:48:07 chap 12
06:19:40 chap 13
06:48:09 chap 14
07:27:46 chap 15
07:45:18 chap 16
part 2
08:22:30 chap1
08:51:15 chap 2
09:32:45 chap 3
10:15:43 chap4
10:32:36 chap5
11:13:12 chap 6
11:54:39 chap 7
12:22:40 chap 8
13:16:45 chap 9
13:54:43 chap 10
14:38:38 chap 11
15:21:48 chap 12
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This is an amazing book. Well read by Martin Geeson.
An insight into Russian society and spirit
My first experience of Dostoyevsky, thank you for a sensitive enjoyable read.
Thank you for this recording! Thank you Martin Geeson.
martin geeson is (in my opinion) a very credible, pleasing reader. bravo
Alex Ander He is good, isn't he? I always worry a little when I see it's a Librivox, but we were fortunate here.
Do you know where parts 3 and 4 are found (read by Martin Geeson)?
@@Anthony-vx6cs You can find it on Librivox's website for free. The reader of part three did a very poor job but it is at least there.
@@shauntabrahamian1175 Thank you - I actually found it but couldn't stand the reader.! I ended up purchasing a copy of the book cheaply instead.
I remember reading this many years ago. How on point to recall this at this moment in my life. A vivisection of humanity.
I haven't been around long enough ta have read this years ago I'm 13 but I love the book and I plan to get crime and punishment from the library tomorrow and I've fallen in love with Dostoevsky books
There was a very strange feature in this case, strange because of its extremely rare occurrence. This man had once been brought to the scaffold in company with several others, and had had the sentence of death by shooting passed upon him for some political crime. Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die. I was very anxious to hear him speak of his impressions during that dreadful time, and I several times inquired of him as to what he thought and felt. He remembered everything with the most accurate and extraordinary distinctness, and declared that he would never forget a single iota of the experience. ‘About twenty paces from the scaffold, where he had stood to hear the sentence, were three posts, fixed in the ground, to which to fasten the criminals (of whom there were several). The first three criminals were taken to the posts, dressed in long white tunics, with white caps drawn over their faces, so that they could not see the rifles pointed at them. Then a group of soldiers took their stand opposite to each post. My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up. A priest went about among them with a cross: and there was about five minutes of time left for him to live. ‘He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment, so that he made several arrangements, dividing up the time into portions-one for saying farewell to his companions, two minutes for that; then a couple more for thinking over his own life and career and all about himself; and another minute for a last look around. He remembered having divided his time like this quite well. While saying good- bye to his friends he recollected asking one of them some very usual everyday question, and being much interested in the answer. Then having bade farewell, he embarked upon those two minutes which he had allotted to looking into himself; he knew beforehand what he was going to think about. He wished to put it to himself as quickly and clearly as possible, that here was he, a living, thinking man, and that in three minutes he would be nobody; or if somebody or something, then what and where? He thought he would decide this question once
for all in these last three minutes. A little way off there stood a church, and its gilded spire glittered in the sun. He remembered staring stubbornly at this spire, and at the rays of light sparkling from it. He could not tear his eyes from these rays of light; he got the idea that these rays were his new nature, and that in three minutes he would become one of them, amalgamated somehow with them. ‘The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, ‘What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!’ He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.’
This is all so great, thank you so much for posting...I've been sick and I've never had the time before to read this book but have always wanted to and now you've made it possible, and have done an extremely good job of it, once again, Thank You.
Thank you so much for this recording!! I love Dostoevsky!
I too love Fyodor Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekov. They take the readers as well as the human kind to ahigher level. It is aspiritual journey. They simply dig out what all human burried in thehuman beings.very noble. I simply admire and adore them. They nurture and culture the human souls. Go on feed the human kindWith the Empathy.
I attempted listening to hanmaids tale and the sheer difference in the word use is almost funny. I find my self smiling at every other line of this book
Thank you Geeson! An amazing ride. Looking forward to read part 3 and 4
I first read this book while working nights as a ‘ward clerk’ in a locked psychiatric facility. I was assigned to a ward each night and had a good 3 hours of down times between 1 and 4 AM. What a joyful surprise this book became and I learned more about the working of the human mind, and myself. Then the Brother K was like a vision of male psychology in an abstract world of sex role conceptualizations. The rest they say is history!!!!
excellent reading voice, very clear. thanks for this.
Part 1 : 0:00:00-8:21:50
Part 2 till the end, if anyone needed a stamp
Thank you!
Fantastic reading, truly professional. Kudos and thanks.
Thanks for your effort. 🌸🌸
I like your style of teaching. It is clear, precise and concise.
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Wonderful read, most appropriate and close enough for this giant of Russian littérature. Very agréable to listen all the way. Bravo.
The best writer in the world, and the beautiful British English language.
This is great literature, & great psychology. I believe Russian people have & have had a particularly hard life & history.
Really good read .. Thank you. Please upload the remaining parts too. Cheers.!!
Thank you, this is marvelous!
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What a beautiful reading!
Счастлив что знаю русский и могу читать на оригинале.
I love this recording. Wonderful translation and exceptional interpretation
thank you so much, Sir!!!~ It's really enjoyable to listen to this story!
Thank you for a wonderful reading. Pity that only half of the book is available 🙁
Excellent reader. Amazing book. Thanks
Thank you for the pleasant and wonderful voice!
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Another cracking read by the gooseman 🙏
Listen to this while I work out. Thank you!
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Totally loved listening Fyudor Dostoyevsky and stil do 🦋 Also wonderful reader Martin Geese
Martin Geeson does a superb job on this book. He is an excellent reader.
Wonderful book, wonderful reading and wonderful comments! God bless dostoyevsky
The first part especially of The Idiot is amazing. Every passage is a quote. I think he said it was his best writing? Yup. It's hilarious and ingenious. This translation into English is apparently great
What a beautiful reading. I will enjoy listening to more works read by Martin.
So so true ! Mighty are right pray they not only make people obey Uma . But continue teaching learning to serve with love. Thank you divine universe. Help me with endurance to learn.
You're a great reader Martin. Thanks me old shipmate. Brian curran
Amazing. Book and narrator. So descriptive and perceptive.
2:54:53 - on the brains of dying criminals
For anyone else confused by the end, there are another 2 parts (3+4) to be found elsewhere.
Great book and beautiful narration.
This reading is brilliant. Thank you!
13:30:00 dude starts yelling, i, myself, hanging off a ladder, smack myself in the face with the butt of a chisel. Cheers
Thanks for the warning.
Excellent reading. I could listen forever. 👏