I've had this book on my shelf for a long time, but have always been intimidated by the length and the reputation of this epic story. I finally armed myself with the audio book, print copy of the book, and a copy of the character map from Wikipedia and began. After 4 weeks (1200 pages and 64 hours...
One way of describing War and Peace is that its scope is as expansive and broad as the Russian countryside. Critics of the book pick up on this theme and agree with Henry James when he says that Russian novels are, “... large, loose, baggy monsters, with their queer elements of the accidental and t...
First, hurrah! I finished!It's definitely worth reading. If you can get to the halfway point, it gets easier to read. The themes covered are so grand and all-encompassing that it's got something for everyone.
Fancy pants dribble about high society flakes and incompetent generals. Sure there is more to it than that, but after 400 pages I'm irritated that I managed to guilt myself into reading 399 pages too many.
Long and tedious - as you've been told. Cast of thousands. Best book I've ever read? No. For me, contemporary works are more pertinent. Sorry Leo. That said, everyone knows it's a classic. So Leo gets put on the "A" list.
How puerile can I get? Somebody was asking me the other day, and I think this tells the story. I read the first eight hundred thousand, three hundred and sixty-three pages of War and Peace, stopping exactly twenty pages before the end. I wished to make the point, Count Lev Nikolayevich​, I hope you ...
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