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Originally Posted by DNSB
Somehow rousing good read and War and Peace seems like an oxymoron. Perhaps like the version of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Paul Clifford where the purple prose was stripped (Paul Clifford is the source of the "It was a dark and stormy night" as the first part of the opening sentence). For those who haven't read the book, after that opening phrase, the original droned on to the point where I began to feel I should be on a first name basis with every gust of wind and raindrop.
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Although one wonders if
War and Peace would have been as highly acclaimed as it was had it been published under its original title:
War, What is it Good For?
