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Feb 20, 2008
Ken
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it was amazing
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Wow. And I read it inside a week. This was back when I had a life. And I remember the wonderful winter scenes, the troikas racing across the snow, the squeaking runners, the crisp sound of the bells in the night and the carriages' cargo of silly humans dressed as mummers.
And I said to myself NOT what a wonderful world, but what a sensory world Tolstoy creates. He is, when all is said and done (and it admittedly never is), such a damned good sensuous writer. Solipsism at its best -- the kind we ...more
And I said to myself NOT what a wonderful world, but what a sensory world Tolstoy creates. He is, when all is said and done (and it admittedly never is), such a damned good sensuous writer. Solipsism at its best -- the kind we ...more
Mar 23, 2008
John
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War and Peace - oh my goodness - what an extraordinary book. It's length, and to be honest that alone has always previously put me off reading it, was inconsequential... I mean... I hardly noticed it passing.
I was amazed at the ease with which Tolstoy crammed three different stories into one single book. Somehow he has managed to write an amazing narrative of the Franco-Russian War into which he has interspersed a story of lives of the families [Bezhukovs, Rostovs, Bolkonskys et al] and has some ...more
I was amazed at the ease with which Tolstoy crammed three different stories into one single book. Somehow he has managed to write an amazing narrative of the Franco-Russian War into which he has interspersed a story of lives of the families [Bezhukovs, Rostovs, Bolkonskys et al] and has some ...more
Jun 08, 2014
Miriam
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Damn epilogue. Much of the book is glorious but I need to wait a bit to give the epilogue time to sink out of view.
Feb 04, 2008
Clackamas
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Apr 14, 2008
Jenna
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Jun 04, 2008
Elyse
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really liked it
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Jun 29, 2009
Tensy (bookdoyen)
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it was amazing
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Aug 01, 2009
Sandra
marked it as to-read
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Dec 30, 2010
Ken
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it was amazing
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Jan 14, 2011
Dree
marked it as abandoned
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May 22, 2012
Mark
marked it as to-read
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