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A colleague invited me over for dinner and I noticed he had War and Peace on his bookshelf. I've read the summary & analysis of that book and so I told him I really enjoyed how the novel showed the contrast between the European & Russian culture. He loved that I had read it and shared his favorite moments of the novel, with me nodding and borrowing commentary from that summary. By the end of the dinner after a couple of drinks he said he'd recommend me for a promotion. All this because I spent half an hour reading a summary, while this idiot probably spent countless hours reading it. Really goes to show you how worthless fiction is.

>> No.19824084

>>19824082
brazy

>> No.19824087

i didn't read war and peace because i want a promotion though

>> No.19824134

I have read up to book four. Or rather a translation with extraordinarily simple prose. This book instilled in me an aversion to reading translations from their native tongue. While I can appreciate Tolstoy's ambition in writing this tome, the resulting literary soap opera carries many of the dramatic failings that imbue the modern genre.

>> No.19824663

>>19824082
>probably spent countless hours reading it.
You got any proof?