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6630724 No.6630724 [Reply] [Original]

>read 400 pages already
>tfw there are still 1000 pages to go

Not that I mind that tbh. Anyway, this book is impressive and very touching. Why don't you guys talk about it? War and Peace thread, I suppose.

>> No.6630743

you're the one reading it, why don't you make a meaningful post about it.

>> No.6630788

>>6630743
probley because he's only 400 pages into it.

>> No.6630807

>>6630788
Why couldn't he wait until he finished it?

>> No.6630818

I hated the chapters where Tolstoy completely stopped the story so that he could insert his philosophical essays on the nature of history. He's already exploring those same themes in the narrative, no one needs like four additional essays on it.

>> No.6630951

>>6630724
I fucking envy you OP. Reading War and Peace the first time was easily the most rewarding reading experience of my life. When I got to the end I wished it was twice as long. Finishing that book felt like saying goodbye to a friend.

I don't ever start threads about it because I don't really have that much to say about it I guess.

>>6630818
I get what you're saying, but I honestly didn't mind those chapters. Even that huge part near the end about history.

Damn maybe it's time to read War and Peace again

>> No.6631038

>>6630818

Check out The Sleepwalkers by Broch my man! You'd love it!

>> No.6632776

I read it a few years ago. It is quite amazing. You owe it to yourself to read Anna Karenina eventually; the story isn't as epic but it's more focused and intimate.

>> No.6632873

>not reading the 600 page abridged version that cuts out all of Tolstoys shitty fluff

>> No.6632886

>>6630807
just couldn't resist the urge to shitpost

>> No.6632925
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6632925

>>6632873
>reading abridged plebeian shit

>> No.6633071

>>6632873
3/10 bait i thought it was real

>> No.6633110

>>6630724
>can read W&P in Russian as I am Russian
>don't

well..

>> No.6633522

>>6630951
> Reading War and Peace the first time was easily the most rewarding reading experience of my life.
This. The book is so complete, so symbolic, it's hard to ever forget.

Just for the sake of mentioning, the execution by firing squad scene is an example of a writing that I feel changed my views on life. It was a too vivid description of something terrible, that I'd read/watched in films before, but Tolstoy-deep.

Definitely a good one to read OP, keep it up. Don't be surprised by certain changes in tone (for example at the start of the second tome). Feel free to take some rest between parts.

>> No.6633548

Is it a light read?

>> No.6633700

>>6633548
Yes. Tolstoy has a simple prose style. It's just long. I recommend it to everyone.

>> No.6633757

>>6633548
It's an easy read. Simple prose and short chapters.

I found the first 100 pages to be a bit challenging (introduces lots of characters and all of their names sound the same :P). But even this wasn't too bad.

>> No.6633808

What's Tolstoy's opinion of Napoleon? Never felt like I figured that out, could have used an additional 500 pages on that imo

>> No.6633810

War & Peace is a great read. It can also be really cozy. I read it in spring in WA when it was raining every day while I smoked weed and drank tea as I read it, it was the most cozy I have ever been in my life.

I'm excited to read Anna Karenina

>> No.6633813

>>6633808

From what I could tell Tolstoy acknowledged that of course Napoleon was a talented general but Tolstoy seemed to want to dispel the notion that he was a "tactical genius" and Tolstoy noted that Napoleon made several stupid decisions during the Russian campaign.

>> No.6633830

>>6633808
There's a cool scene where the French army captures some wounded Russian soldiers and Napoleon congratulates them for fighting bravely against his army. But it's basically what >>6633813 said.

>> No.6633902

>>6633813
>>6633830
Looks like I didn't lay the irony on thick enough.

>> No.6634101

>>6633902

I apologize for not catching you're irony, its been a while since I read it.

>> No.6634121

>>6633810
As someone who's completed War & Peace and is now finishing Anna Karenina I would say that the later is a better and more interesting book.