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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Start date: October 1, 2020

Finish date: December 31, 2020

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Jan 14, 2012 Antonomasia rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 19th-century, central-eastern-europe, ebooks-kindle, 1001-books, 2015, bbc-big-read, divine-comedy-booklovers, russia

I don't put pics or GIFs in reviews, but right now I've got a mental image of a non-specific Peanuts character running round in small circles, arms up, mouth open, going: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!

I finished this.

When I decided last year that actually, yes, I would read Anna Karenina, (of which I'd had copies on and off since c.2002) I planned to start a post by saying I was one of the few people who'd ever started the book because of - not in spite of - all the material about ...more

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Jan 31, 2016 Sarah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Well, that was long. A very long story about the idle rich. I understand why the revolution was so successful in Russia; I wanted to kill many of these boring pointless rich folks as well. And the point? The point after 600+ pages is that the only thing t hat gives life purpose and meaning is faith in God. Stop arguing over politics, stop trying to improve society, shut up and have faith. If you don't you will only be actively (or passively) committing suicide. I actually liked Dolly. (And Kitty ...more

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