I'm not a big classics reader. I look for books that provide great stories and characters--that provide entertainment, not just material for study. I'm pleased to report that War and Peace works on all fronts, that it is honestly a great read. It's a long book but absolutely readable and worth the e...
This book is so difficult to review; it's so vast and varied and my responses to it are vastly varied. If this turns into a sprawling mess, then it is only a dim and distorted image of the book itself, which is flawed, too.So, what is War and Peace all about? One could easily answer, "Everything" si...
It was a little philosophical in places but not so much that it bogged down the story. The characters were amazing and the "point" he was trying to make was not at all what I was expecting.This books is also reviewed at my blog Books: A true story
So, I read this. It took a couple minutes. Some of it is the same old stuff I remember from Anna Karenina: huge numbers of rich people screwing each other over. But the other stuff - I guess that's the "War" stuff, although it's mostly all war, one way or another - the stuff about Napoleon surpri...
Re-read details:BBC7 dramatisation starring Simon Russell Beale and Leo McKern.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007jlvz/War_and_Peace_Plots_and_Stratagems/----------I shall be switching between mp3 files and the paper book. My audio file is from 1982, read by Walter Zimmerman, and split into ei...
I have officially finished the book that is usually used as a benchmark for "hard to read" and "hard to finish" in what amounts to two months or so. I feel suitably smug.In [b:Midnight's Children|14836|Midnight's Children|Salman Rushdie|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1166661748s/14836.jpg|1024288], Sa...
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...
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