What could I possibly say about this book that hasn't been said already? I could write out the plot of the book, but that seems silly. I could write about the writing, but it's been done before.I have a thing for Russian literature. I don't know what it is, but I love it. There's very little t...
My goal was to read this book in two weeks, and I managed it, to the day exactly. Well, I ambitiously set out to read this book, knowing nothing about the story, really, and found it fairly interesting. There were some chapters that I started to skim a bit, the ones dealing with politics and religio...
New translation - looking forward to it ...I forgot his obsession with getting in his views about absolutely everything from agriculture, painting, elections etc, but he writes it all so well it is impossible to skip, although I admit to glazing over the more tedious agricultural theories..However, ...
For years, I didn’t want to read Anna Karenina because I thought it was all about an affair. It’s a painful subject to me as it cuts too close to home (ie. I’ve seen personally just how it affects a family and therefore, usually am not interested in reading it either). Suffice to say, my OCD-ness ...
No question that James's prose was a challenge by this time in his career, though I found the later The Ambassadors much easier going and the most compelling of the two books (likely due to my responding to Lambert's age). There's a sort of shimmery pointillist effect with character that James pulls...
Celebrity Death Match Review Elimination Tournament Review: Anna Karenina (12) vs. Pippi Långstrump (21) A countryside railway station in indistinctly northern surroundings. Count Vronsky and Anna Karenina are standing together, both looking into the distance but in opposite directions. VRONSKY ...
This is a book that I was actually dreading reading for quite some time. It was on a list of books that I'd been working my way through and, after seeing the size of it and the fact that 'War And Peace' was voted #1 book to avoid reading, I was reluctant to ever get started. But am I glad that I did...
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