Written for the Celebrity Death Match Review TournamentPippi Longstocking: I'm surprised you've shown up at all, Anna Karenina. I am much stronger than you and it would be better if you simply concede now.Anna Karenina: What insolence from a young lady! Have you no manners?Pippi: I suppose you will ...
The books that first let me love the Russian novel. The plot itself isn't all that intricate but Tolstoy's characterization and contrasts make it one of the best books I've ever read, hands down.
Lo leí hace ya mucho tiempo, pero perdura en mí la memoria de una obra que me marcó, como me sucede con la mayoría de los autores rusos. Una perla que no es para cualquier lector. Es cierto que puede resultar densa su prosa pero es una obra de arte; una crítica a la aristocracia rusia de la época. U...
I just finished Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. This book definitely belongs in that category of 'books that you read (and hated) when you were in high school, but should read again.' What made me pick this one up is that it is narrated by Davina Porter - one of my favorite British narrators. Altho...
ETA: I am marking this book as read even though it's gone back to the pile for another day. I keep changing the status to "to read" and it keeps showing up on my current reads. One more try before I delete it and unfortunately the comments...
Anna, oh Anna...what have you done?!In Anna Karenina there are multiple examples in which one love is fostered at the expense of another. On the one hand the reader clearly sees the wrong being done and rails against it, but if a moment of further reflection is indulged, we wonder if we too might no...
I love this one. The people are so alive, and the action seems so inevitable. This is my favorite Tolstoy novel. The writing is amazing. Everyone sparkles off the page. It's all so true.
Not the biggest fan of the book as I don't agree with the ending. I have never known any one to die of or for love, but on the stage. Perhaps I have too much of the modern sensibility that no man is worth dying for (and if he is, I haven't met him). Or maybe I have yet to experience that kind of cra...
I brought L'élegance du hérisson to read on the plane when I went to Barcelona earlier this week. Somewhere over the Mediterranean, I made a pleasant discovery: Mme. Michel's favourite passage in Anna Karenina is also my favourite passage! I didn't realise anyone else had noticed it.To be honest, I ...
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