The War and Peace Reading Support Group week 2: Pierre has just inherited a LOT of money and Andrei is off to war.

We're doing Russian Lit so we're supposed to be in a solemn, profound, cerebral sort of state, but I have to say: War and Peace is so badass! Think of an epic-scale family drama with complex human beings rather than stock characters. Take the scene in which the old Count Bezukhov is dying. Prince Vassily [...]