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Has anyone else read it? This is the first book I've read in a while that makes me want to keep reading. Lat night, I had to force myself to stop reading and go to bed.
I'd like to hear what others thought of it. No spoilers, please. I'm not that far into it.
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I liked it. I also, by the time I finished it, was ready to drop it from a height of about thirty feet onto the corpse of the author, just to see how unnecessarily large a crater it would leave in his chest.
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I'd rather read the bible, I started reading it in 9th grade and didn't like it. Tolstoy pushes too much detail into it.
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Tom, wouldn't you have to strap him down to make sure it lands on his chest? If he was standing, wouldn't the book land on his head? Eww!
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I've never read War And Peace. I always felt indimidated by the size of it.
I have read Tolstoy's short story "How Much Land Does A Man Need?" (or something like that), however, and I quite enjoyed it.
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As I was reading the intro to the book, I read that it took Tolstoy 5 years to complete it. I too was intimidated by the size of it. Besides, I heared that most russian works of art ar kind of sad. Stories do usually have a tragic ending too...
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Tom, I had the exact same feeling. I read the whole thing in less than a week. Someday, maybe, I will reread it, but as of now, and the near future, I have no desire whatsoever to do so.
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One of my favorite books. I think Anna Karenina was the better novel. But War and Peace isn't really a novel. It's kind of a novel wrapped around a historical commentary, and I really enjoyed both.
Tolstoy is great at giving real life. Well, what I perceive to be life. Maybe my life stinks more than I realize.
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