One word, three letters: WOW! I absolutely love this book, the story, the philosophy in it and the author. As the cover states, it really is a book that you don't just read. You live it.At first, I was a bit daunted. In the first part, the reader gets too much information to cope with. The Russian n...
Celebrity Death Match Review Elimination Tournament Review: Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (16) vs. War and Peace (17) With a satisfied flick of her tail, Mrs. B. groomed back into place two stray hairs that had come lose in her shining black fur during her foray into the pantry, then s...
This book is so difficult to review; it's so vast and varied and my responses to it are vastly varied. If this turns into a sprawling mess, then it is only a dim and distorted image of the book itself, which is flawed, too.So, what is War and Peace all about? One could easily answer, "Everything" si...
So, I read this. It took a couple minutes. Some of it is the same old stuff I remember from Anna Karenina: huge numbers of rich people screwing each other over. But the other stuff - I guess that's the "War" stuff, although it's mostly all war, one way or another - the stuff about Napoleon surpri...
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