Planning on reading this, as well as War and Peace (perhaps not soon, but I do intend to read it this year). What should I be expecting? Should I read anything beforehand? Also, I'm just finishing up Brothers Karamazov.

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Anonymous Fri Nov 15 22:55:42 2013 No.4274314 [DELETED]

Planning on reading this, as well as War and Peace (perhaps not soon, but I do intend to read it this year). What should I be expecting? Should I read anything beforehand?

Also, I'm just finishing up Brothers Karamazov.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 15 23:04:42 2013 No.4274337 Crime and Punishment is pretty grim.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 15 23:08:42 2013 No.4274342 >>4274314 Expect a book about a guy who is all talk and expect one of the greatest novels of all time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 15 23:08:42 2013 No.4274343 >>4274337 Not at all, it had a hopeful ending.

Anonymous Fri Nov 15 23:24:43 2013 No.4274375
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Listened to War and Peace as audiobook read by Alexander Scourby for last two months, at work. Data entry jobs. Yay.

War and Peace is a series of peace-like war scenes in which young men talk merrily with each other before dying senselessly, and a series of war-like peace scenes in which aristocrats scheme incessantly for incremental gains in "control" of the crumbling world around them.

The two "main characters" (though it's truly an ensemble cast) I like to think are Pierre and Prince Andrew.

The latter is a soldier and a father.

The former is a bachelor and a scholar.

Both are naive, but in opposite ways.

Tolstoy breaks the fourth wall occasionally to talk philosophically on the impossibility of knowing things. It can get annoying and repetitive, but he does occasionally have good points.

It's worth at least one read, I think, if you have the patience.

Also, it's hilarious (SPOILER) seeing an 1800s version of a tinfoil-hatter conspiracy theorist in the character of Pierre.

W&P cycles rapidly between being poignant, depressing, and hilarious, depending on your patience.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 15 23:26:43 2013 No.4274385 read and find out retard

Anonymous Fri Nov 15 23:27:43 2013 No.4274388

>>4274375 here

I also have to say I like Super Karamazov Bros. way way way more than Crime and Punishment. But that's just me. I'm a sucker for ensemble casts. The whole "outcast protagonist" thing C&P does is something I got burned-out on in my teens.

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