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do i dive in the deep end with w&p/karenina or start with shorter stuff like ivan ilych/a confession

>> No.9745075

>>9745071
whatever lol
it's all good
yolo anon

>> No.9745094

>>9745071
Maybe start with Ivan Ilyich. Its hard to keep a good schedule with w&p and karenina. You'll probably finish it much later than you planned because its so long and you'll interest may bounce around.

But depends on what kind of reader you are I guess.

>> No.9745106

AK is not as hard, it's just long. Make a character list or map (if that kind of thing helps you) and have at it.

>> No.9745192

>>9745071
neither, the guy was a slave rapist.

>> No.9745311

Ivan Ilyich, W&P then Anna Karenina. Don't read Resurrection or A Confession until you read 1-2 of these; late Tolstoy is quite different in his world views.

>> No.9745317

Tolstoy was a mediocre writer and an egotistical crackpot fraud

>> No.9745338
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9745338

>>9745317
T. American pleb.

>> No.9745397

War and Peace and Anna Karenina isn't "the deep end", it's literally introductory world lit material.

They're just fucking books. Read them or don't.

DO I FLIP THE PAGE WHEN I REACH THE BOTTOM?
DO I START AT THE BEGINNING AND END AT THE END?
HOW DO I USE MY HANDS?
WHICH EYE DO I USE?

>> No.9745405

>>9745071
War and Peace and Anna Karenina are just long soap operas.

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>>9745192
>look up tolstoy slave rape
>find this on google books
remind me not to look into things

>> No.9745448

>>9745428
he famously forced his wife to bear children, and to breastfeed them to the point that her mastitis was so painful, that her fucking father had to step in and plead with tolstoy. guy also often resorted to droit de seigneur with his own serfs.