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by Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Briggs
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: summer-2010, slavic, classic, published-1865, napoleonic, re-read, play-dramatisation, epic-proportions, historical-fiction, families, winter-20102011, autumn-2010 Read from November 22 to December 04, 2010, read count: 3 ** spoiler alert ** Re-read details:[image error]BBC7 dramatis...
JasonKoivu
JasonKoivu rated it 11 years ago
LoveThat was the one thing I thought was missing from Leo Tolstoy's title, War and Peace. I was wrong. Love is in the title, you just have to look for it. Certainly there is love in peace. It is the time of children, serenity, growth. The mother peacefully raising her children. The farmer lovingly ...
Book Ramblings
Book Ramblings rated it 11 years ago
War and bloody Peace eh? Started June 12, 2013, finished August 26, 2013! How am I supposed to review this?! I'll apply my usual rambling slapdash technique I think.War and Peace looks like a formidable challenge for the average reader, in term of length and legendary status, this is not "just anoth...
Chris Blocker
Chris Blocker rated it 12 years ago
It took Tolstoy five years to write this bad boy. It took me four and a half years to read it. Though massive, size alone is not the reason it took me so long finish one novel. Life sort of got in the way. I started the novel in 2009, knowing it would take some months to complete, but then I started...
Kate Bond
Kate Bond rated it 12 years ago
I've tried to read this thing a billion times. Life's too short.
Eccentric Musings (jakaEM)
Eccentric Musings (jakaEM) rated it 12 years ago
Thank you, Mr. Tolstoy.
Brain Gourmet
Brain Gourmet rated it 12 years ago
My Oh My, this book! How does one even begin to write a review on 'War and Peace'?! A book of so many words managed to leave me utterly speechless.Here is my dilemma - either I had lived in Russia 200 years ago or Tolstoy is a genius. The second option seems more reasonable, yet a part of me still ...
The Girl who Reads
The Girl who Reads rated it 12 years ago
Review to follow!
bbbart
bbbart rated it 12 years ago
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...
Helen, the Hermit
Helen, the Hermit rated it 13 years ago
Review to come.
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