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War and Peace
War and Peace
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Start date
June 1, 2023
Finish date
August 30, 2023

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Laura (Reading is a Doing Word)
Oct 11, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics-trad-and-modern, books-i-own, 2020-read, russian-lit
I don't really know how to write a review of this book. I've lived with it for almost 3 months - 11 weeks/77 days of daily readings. I made myself a schedule so it wasn't an overwhelming task each day so every evening for the last 11 weeks I've sat and read about Pierre, Natasha, Andrey, Nicolas, Mary etc.
I think I'll miss them!
It's hard to describe this book - it's about life - love, life, family, friendship, philosophy, religion and of course war. Tolstoy takes us by the hand and show us Russi ...more
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Mags
Feb 05, 2011 rated it really liked it
My previous review was completely inane, so I'm going to re-write it. Yes, the size and reputation of Tolstoy's masterpiece may be intimidating, but it's actually not hard to read (it just takes a while). It's beautifully written (in my case, beautifully translated) and is a breathtaking epic with a lot of action, but upon finishing the book, I realized that I didn't really connect with any of the characters because they were so many of them...and quite a few of them were shallow ones as well. T ...more
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Kerridelaine
Apr 05, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Furrawn
May 13, 2011 rated it it was amazing
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Annamika
Jun 04, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Jenn
Jul 20, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Jenn
Aug 24, 2011 marked it as 1001-books-to-read-list
Lisa
Sep 14, 2011 marked it as to-read
Amanda
Dec 30, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Shasha
Mar 02, 2012 marked it as n-a
Sandy
May 04, 2012 marked it as to-read
Malina
Oct 27, 2012 rated it it was amazing
MJ
Mar 12, 2013 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Devashree
Jun 07, 2013 marked it as to-read
Holly
Oct 29, 2013 marked it as to-read
Megan
Feb 21, 2014 marked it as to-read
Mary Bronson
Oct 01, 2014 marked it as to-read
Sady
Jan 13, 2015 marked it as to-read
Shelves: own, gramma, physical-tbr
Brandy
May 09, 2015 marked it as to-read
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Cynthia Jones
Jul 13, 2015 marked it as to-read
Jenny
Jan 22, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, 2017, with-bruce
Tiffannee Shaw
Dec 29, 2016 marked it as to-read
Addy Beimford
May 10, 2018 rated it it was amazing
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Lori
Jun 25, 2018 marked it as to-read
Shelves: great-american-read
Lindsey LaChute
Jul 05, 2018 is currently reading it
Rachel
Nov 05, 2018 marked it as to-read
Shelves: wtr-classics
Teri Rainey
Jan 08, 2019 marked it as to-read
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