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Originally Posted by Slite
War and Peace ... tried to read the dang thing eleventy times I think, and after awhile I just throw my hands up in disgust and start to read something else.
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I made it through on the second try, after deciding to skip the chapters devoted to historical theory. OK so I guess I cheated a bit...
I'm glad I did: Both War and Peace and Anna Karenina deserve their reputation for greatness. Tolstoy's characters seemed very real, lifelike almost: I knew people that were just like the characters that he created.
For some reason I've always contrasted Tolstoy with Dickens: Dicken's stories are very interesting, and fun, and much much more, but somehow they're not entirely believable. War and Peace and Anna Karenina were completely believable: there wasn't an iota of artifice.
Give it an eleventyfirst try.