By "three stars," I don't mean that this book had three star writing. Some parts of it were enthralling and, given the status of this novel as the greatest love story ever, gems of literature, like Anna's suicide, but I found myself skimming through every part involving Sergei Ivanovitch or state po...
I only finished this book through sheer force of will (I didn't want my eReader mocking me by showing me how far I'd gotten, either.)There are no nice people in this entire book. Seriously. And it's not that I want Pollyanna-esque portrayals; people are multi-facetred.Except in this book, where th...