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I DID IT! I started this book on January 1, 2021, and over six months later, I finally finished! My ultimate verdict? Meh. Two and a half stars. I think maybe I read the wrong translation though, as a lot of the language felt very clunky.
Jun 29, 2017
Denise Cormaney
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I read this twice before; once in college, once again about 10 years ago or so. It isn't a book I've been dying to reread, but I kept seeing rave reviews about Maggie Gyllenhaal's narration on the audible version, so I gave it ago. The story is good and this book is considered a classic, but of course it's way too long. It was originally written as a serial, so certainly Tolstoy was encouraged to pad the story and draw it out as much as possible. It was also interesting to hear Tolstoy inject so
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An extraordinary translation of an extraordinary book, one that offers multiple answers, all of them flawed, to the question, 'however shall we live?.'
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Dec 21, 2014
Deanna M
marked it as to-read
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Feb 26, 2019
Cathy
is currently reading it
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Dec 19, 2019
Lauren
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