What kind of books have you guys been reading lately?

[SoleVictim]

finished the first part (out of six) of Crime & Punishment and so far has been an interesting read. reading about the murder being done and described in detail was pretty hype lol. im interested in the psychological stuff itll get into later on.
as for past books, i enjoyed reading Hamlet, The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Book of Disquiet. would like to check out House of Leaves in summer

I completely forgot about this thread 😭
Anyways I finished reading Crime & Punishment more than 3 months ago and I'm pretty sure I remember what I thought of it after finishing.

For the most part, it was alright. Didn't really blow my mind or anything just a decent read. Pacing was pretty good but every now and then there would be a block of text that didn't add anything to the story.
It has topics like "capitalism bad" and tbh books with those topics often leave a bad taste in my mouth or end up sorta boring by bringing up the same points all of them bring up. I was more interested in the characters, who were for the most part alright, but they were either very barebones or very complex and rarely in-between.
Character deaths in the book are done really well, the worldbuilding was mediocre, characters were pretty good (although I do wish some of them weren't barebones) and it's written very well.

In short, it's a decent book with pretty interesting psychological themes and character interactions. Not worth a whopping 500 pages though.