I loved War and Peace, I've read it three times. Excellent book. The one I really didn't care too much for was Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. That was quite a slog to get through. The coincidences that occurred were also a bit unbelievable. A good work no doubt, I just found it tiring. I mean about 70 pages for the battle of Waterloo with just some tangential relevance to the story with the Thenardiers and Marius' father was a bit much. I actually pulled the rip cord there once, then a few years later went back and slogged through the whole book.
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