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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Start date: January 1, 2019

Finish date: February 28, 2019

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Sep 11, 2012 Lauren rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books, classics, 1305

Goodreads is capable of ridiculous levels of peer pressure. The type of peer pressure that involves not a single comment from another person, caused entirely by my seeing that more than one of my friends is reading the same book and ENJOYING it. I feel so left out and find myself having the read that book as soon as possible. So it happened with Anna Karenina and I am so glad that I felt that (non-existent) peer pressure to read this monster of a book.

This book, like many by the great Russian a ...more

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Jan 10, 2020 Anna rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: in-hungarian, top-books-of-all-time, russian, fiction

Is it possible that I'm still too young for this? Or maybe it's just not my cup of tea... I skimmed through the book quickly (when I felt like picking it up...), sometimes I skipped 10-20 pages... Too much for me. I'll try again when I'm 60. ...more

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Jun 26, 2017 Michelle rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017-books-read

I'm giving this book 3 stars. It was brilliant in its way but terribly depressing. I would sum up the story by saying - Nobody's ever really happy, ever. ...more

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