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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy,

Joel Carmichael (Translator)

Start date: March 21, 2010

Finish date: November 6, 2010

Discussion leader: Kristi

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May 03, 2017 Nich rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Wow. It's just wow. Read it. There's not much anyone can really say about it besides to tell you to read it because it's amazing. It's heartbreaking and beautiful and I don't really think it should be named after the character of Anna Karenina but, it's amazing and that's that. ...more

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Mar 21, 2018 Ashley Jacobson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Wow. I’ve put off writing a review for almost 2 months because I don’t know what to write. Good cautionary novel. Great writing. It reaffirmed why I love Russian authors. Tolstoy is so aware of the human mind and I often thought “how does he know exactly what a woman would be thinking and feeling in this situation?” He’s a master! One of my favorite books now.

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Dec 12, 2017 James rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: the-top-10-epic-classics, favorites

After failing miserably as a teen to finish Crime and Punishment, Russian literature for the most part has always remained something that I would get to later on. Especially Tolstoy and his two monolithic tomes War and Peace and Anna Karenina looming on my shelf intimidatingly. Many times I have gone to start my copy of War and Peace, and always I have shied away at the last minute, mainly from the fear of having to print out a character map just to memorize so many long russian names that I am ...more

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Dec 01, 2020 Rachel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I have spent most of this year trying to wring out every truth, every grain of wisdom, and every word of meaning from this rapturous beauty but I still feel like I’ve barely grasped the superficial. Anna Karenina is a world unto itself. It left me feeling like Tolstoy delivered this gift directly to me so that I may uncover some cosmic secret of human nature.

(That’s probably a terribly cliche exaggeration but, you’ll have to forgive me, I’m still on a high from finishing it an hour ago.)

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