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| War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy |
June 25 to June 29, 2017
Book 46 - War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy (1869)
Part 2 - last 60%
Reading Time - many hours
Leo Tolstoy (1869)
Part 2 - last 60%
Reading Time - many hours
I finished War and Peace!!! It took me 41.5 hours of reading but... it is done. It was a very, very good book and not at all like what I imagined it might be. The short chapters definitely make it digestible. And the characters are so intriguing and captivating. I didn't want the story to end... but end it did. I do have to say, the last 100 pages or so, the long philosophical musings, were a chore to wade through. Someone had suggested that I could skip that whole section but... I didn't feel like I would have completed the book if I had done it that way. So I wade through it. But if any newbie's out there want to read the book... for heaven's sake, skip the last 100 pages!
I know that I will read the story again some day. Now that I know the characters, I want to read it over again, to really get a sense of their development over time. At the same time, I want to read Tolstoy's other massive tome - Anna Karenina.... So perhaps that will come first.
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