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Apr 28, 2008
Karen
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it was amazing
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I read the Inner Sanctum version. I don't know if it is still in print (I found it in a used bookstore). I also read the first couple of chapters of the P&V version. I found that I enjoyed the Maude translation, so much more. It took me about 2 months to finish the book, but it was worth the time. Yes, it was long, yes the characters were confusing at first, but as I read further, the characters became firmly planted in my mind. It is definitely a book worth reading. I hope to read it again some
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The best book I have read. Am reading it for a second time.
Jan 7, 2010
I am amazed and realizing, once again, why I loved this book so much. I am reading Tolstoy's interpretation of the Battle of Austerlitz and he brings history to life!
May 13, 2010
Sadly, I must reduce my rating of this book to 4 stars. I am finding it to be not nearly as compelling as on the first reading 20 or so years ago. I also remembered certain parts to be different; Maybe I had 2 different translations. I remember the fi ...more
Jan 7, 2010
I am amazed and realizing, once again, why I loved this book so much. I am reading Tolstoy's interpretation of the Battle of Austerlitz and he brings history to life!
May 13, 2010
Sadly, I must reduce my rating of this book to 4 stars. I am finding it to be not nearly as compelling as on the first reading 20 or so years ago. I also remembered certain parts to be different; Maybe I had 2 different translations. I remember the fi ...more
Failed attempt 2, January, 2011.
Failed attempt 1, June 2003: My attempts to read War and Peace are going slowly, but it's a fantastic book. Now I just need to get through the next 900 pages-no doubt staying four days in Burntisland in a couple of weeks will help ;) ...more
Failed attempt 1, June 2003: My attempts to read War and Peace are going slowly, but it's a fantastic book. Now I just need to get through the next 900 pages-no doubt staying four days in Burntisland in a couple of weeks will help ;) ...more
I finished the book in 86 days and it did feel like an endurance test at times. Now to write something about this masterpiece that will do it justice. The story is of two families, the Bolkonshys and Rostovs and uses their lives to portray Russia before and during the conflict with Napoléon. Tolstoy gives you a panoramic view as great as Russia; a view of the city, the country, the movement of armies. There is a lot of detail in these pages. His character develop is built on little physical deta
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I can see why John Bayley, in the intro to the Dunnigan translation, says that Tolstoy didn't consider this work a novel as such, nor an epic. Unlike Anna Karenina, War and Peace fits no particular literary form. The parts about war became very interesting to me, especially all that Tolstoy thought about how the generals, except for Kutozov, were just glory hounds. And what Tolstoy had to say about Napoleon and "great" men was dead on target:
"For the "great" man nothing is wrong. There is no at ...more
"For the "great" man nothing is wrong. There is no at ...more
Jan 14, 2011
Dree
marked it as abandoned
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May 14, 2014
Michelle
marked it as to-read
Oct 26, 2014
Elizabeth
marked it as to-read
