What's in a Name?

I'll confess that I've never read Crime and Punishment, but apparently it's full of confusingly similar names, as a result of all the diminutives, patronymics, diminutive patronymics, and so on. Into this breach leap the brave programmers of bonkworld.com with The Amazing Dostoevsky Machine which allows you to pick distinct (and distinctly unusual) names for the characters. The formerly tongue-twisting Andrey Semyonovitch Lebeziatnikov becomes the euphonious Dicky Dalloway; Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov is now Trixie Gallagher.

You can either print out a cast list or view the entire text online, with your new easy-to-remember folks in place.--David E