u/shell-shock_ayayron

Someone said "Dostoevsky wo log padhte hai jinke life mein struggle ni hai" and why do i feel it's right? Life already depressing hai aur Dostoevsky padhke main aur depressed hogya. Crime n punishment is not a great psychological study of a criminal mind as hyped, gives u existential crisis, it's repetitive, boring in parts, but a decent story over all. Though i don't regret reading it, i personally didn't feel it worth the time n It's not for everyone.

I have read atleast 34 books in a span of almost 2 years and still haven't read any indian authors. Never felt like reading one. I'm more of a detective fiction guy but will read if the book has something good/great to offer regardless of genre. So if you have any such book in mind from indian authors, do lemme know.

I haven't met anyone who liked this book as much as me and that i haven't any big complains with the book. I have never reread a book but i have reread this one, idk why. It's like I'm in love with it.

First some answers to the complaints i read on reddit posts : I don't understand when people are complaining about the book not being a fair play puzzle to point out the killer. There are other clues but the one that's in your face is that, the team arrives separately than van to the island so he isn't counted as one of them if anything happens to all of them. Duh

I've also read complains that shimada doesn't do anything meaningful in the end, which is fair but the book starts with the killer as the main character and ends with him. It's not like a poirot novel, Shimada as a detective was not the main. Shimada reaching out to morisu in the end hints to his suspicions but he's got no proof. Van being a master plotter. Also the author has even pointed out that for him in a murder-mystery novel the mystery is more important than anything else. And i loved the murder mystery, even though i thought how can his guy even top "And then there were none" by the great Agatha christie.

Also that ellery is a disappointment ignoring evidence. He's a college kid who's a wannabe detective without real life experience with solving murders. As sherlock holmes said, "facts first theories later". But I think Ellery goes with seiji being the killer line of thought and attached more theories to prove his assumptions which made it really hard to deviate. Considering how compelling it was, it was harder for him to throw suspicion on his friends without proper motive. I think Ellery did a great job, even though he met a sad end.

My question to you :

1. Kawaminami took some responsibility of what happened to chiori, blaming himself too and left the club even though he wasn't even present in the after party, but the members who were present went to live n forget that anything had ever happened.. with no responsibility till the end. While Van, he felt like he had lost everything. Was it fair, what Van did? Killing 6 for 1. Where do you draw the line for justice? Should they have been punished for how much they were involved in the crime individually? Why didn't Van tell Ellery before killing him about why they were being killed?