There were so many great books I read in 2013. Mainly in the first part of 8th grade. The best book I read has to be Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoevesky. This book focused on the morals of a good man turned bad. And how he thinks he was right to commit the crime he did. Once he commits this crime he's a changed man with no limits. This man's name was Raskolnikov, but I'm going to call him 'Ras' for short.
Let me start off saying, this is the best book ever. I know I said that about The Catcher in the Rye, but truly. This book is amazingly touching in so many ways. Ras may have (spoiler!) killed a lady who owned a pawn shop where he pawned an item from, and that lady's sister. But he still has a good heart. He helped his friends, even how much of a monster his friends knew he was. They all helped him get through this. And the ones who didn't support this at all sadly killed themselves. The women he loved even knew that he did it. She stood by him at every moment that she learned this. It was extremely amazing. Ras becomes sick just knowing that he is the murderer and that one person has already said they did it, even though that person was not the murderer. Ras' best friends all stay with him and make him feel safe and secure aswell as supporting most of the decisions he made throughout all this trouble.
In the end Ras ends up turning himself in, because he feels too guilty. This is by far the best line in the book when he says, "It was I who killed the old women and her sister, Lizaveta, with an axe, and robbed them." Ras just couldn't go on with lying anymore, and became a better man just telling every one without one single regret. I completely recommend this book. It may have been written in the mid to late 1800's, but it's still to this day the best book ever. It's an incredible book, and from the bottom of my heart, I'm begging you to read this book.
