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War and Peace - Community Reviews back

by Leo Tolstoy, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 6 years ago
I was standing at an airport lounge as a teenager many years ago, and suddenly realised I had no books to read for my family holiday. I was a SF geek at the time (still am, but I’m reading other stuff now), but had read everything that W.H. Smiths airport bookshelf could show me. In desperation and ...
Lillelara
Lillelara rated it 7 years ago
I have to admit, War and Piece intimidated me. The sheer size of it, the huge cast of characters and the fact that is a russian classic (I have that weird prejudice that Russian literature is difficult to read) really made me hesitate to read this book. But since I wanted to watch the BBC miniseries...
Dem
Dem rated it 8 years ago
Tolstroy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French Invasion of Russia.I had always wanted to read this epic Novel by Tolstroy's but was completely put off by the sheer size of the book at 1350 pages. I am not a ...
Reflections
Reflections rated it 9 years ago
Henry James, not himself known for brevity of written expression, considered War and Peace a “large loose baggy monster, ” but each time I’ve read through Tolstoy’s 1000++ page rendering of the Napoleonic Wars era in Russia I’ve fallen completely under its spell. The first time, when I was in colleg...
Flicker Reads
Flicker Reads rated it 9 years ago
An unqualified work of genius.I read Anna Karenina last year and enjoyed the philosophical aspects of that novel. Not having read much Tolstoy before, I was surprised by this aspect of his writing. In War and Peace, there is even more to contemplate in this regard. In some ways, the book is a muddle...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 9 years ago
bookshelves: summer-2010, slavic, classic, published-1865, napoleonic, re-read, play-dramatisation, epic-proportions, historical-fiction, families, winter-20102011, autumn-2010, re-visit-2015, winter-20142015, adventure, absolute-favourites, cousin-love, cults-societies-brotherhoods, eye-scorcher, ...
Helen Rena
Helen Rena rated it 9 years ago
My synopsis of War and Peace: It is 1812, and Russia is overrun by evil women who like to dance, daydream, and sleep around. Russian men are completely unmanned. To stop this, Napoleon invades Russia. Instantly, Russian men get back their manliness and kick Napoleon out. They also kill some uppity...
Crash My Book Party
Crash My Book Party rated it 10 years ago
I would have loved to give War and Peace a 5 star rating. I was so close, too. But then we reached the 100-page epilogue and it was all downhill from there. Granted, I made it through more than 1250 pages before I started to consider the possibility of a DNF, but I had gotten that far and with good ...
Blogs Don't Burn
Blogs Don't Burn rated it 10 years ago
Many novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers set their sights on humanizing historical titans through mediums more easily digestible to an average reader or viewer. They produce historical fiction light on history and heavy on middling or inferior fiction (usually scandalous exposés, or milquetoast s...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
I actually remember finding Tolstoy's Anna Karenina a good read, although it's been so long I'd have to reread it to relate what I found absorbing. War and Peace is a very different matter. It's a mammoth novel, one of the longest in the Western canon, roughly 560,000 words; it comes to over a thous...
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