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[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I tried War and Peace when I was a teenager. I didn't make it very far. I think it is one of those books that now as an adult, I wouldn't make it very far either.
When it comes to long sagas like that, I'd rather read a non fiction instead. :-)

[Tasha]

That book is sitting on my shelf. I bought it last year, or the year before, thinking I might try to tackle it....but still it sits. ;)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Maybe you should use it to hold the door open instead. :-)

[Linda]

Use it for the door stop and rent the movie version. Audrey Hepburn Nastasha, I think. I believe I will speed read and not miss too much.

[Judith]

Maybe start with Anna Karenina instead--shorter and more approachable, I think. It's been too many years for me to actually have an informed opinion though.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Audrey Hepburn was in the movie? I didn't realise there was a movie I don't think. I might check to see if my library has the movie.

[Tasha]

I actually did read AK with a group last year. Yes, that was doable. I also read Crime & Punishment. I actually really enjoyed C&P.

[Linda]

There was a BBC War and Peace series years and years ago with Antony Hopkins in it. I read a copy with a picture of that series on the cover when I was pregnant---I had just finished it when my son was born.
I'm not sure which was more difficult!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Suffice it to say...you weren't inspired enough to call your son Leo then. :)

[Linda]

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT made me suicidal, but I persevered. AK is a good book. I am just looking 1200 pages and complaining.
Terri, if you locate the movie please let me know. Husband is the movie collector here. He says we do not have it. I really think he just doesn't want to look for it. Husbands know how to do the 'little side step!'

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Linda wrote: "Husbands know how to do the 'little side step!' .."

lol! Indeedie they do! :D

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I checked and my library has two available of War and Peace on DVD.

One a mini series from 2007
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495055/

and the other the movie with Antony Hopkins (with Antony Hopkins looking like a cave man on the movie poster.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069654/

They don't have the one from 1956 which is a great pity.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049934/

[Tasha]

I preferred C&P over AK but I think some of the people I read both with enjoyed the opposite. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I have never finished a Leo Tolstoy that I have bitten into. I can't concentrate on the one thing for that long. lol. case and point...Alexandre Dumas and his The Count of Monte Cristo.
A wonderful book in parts, but too dragged out in many other parts. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I did finish that door stopper though. :) Despite spending like 5 days burning the midnight oil to read it from start to finish. I knew if I took the foot off the gas I would never finish it. So i took it on full steam ahead.

[Inge]

If you ladies want to spend some time in the penitentiary, there is always: Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" - (1958 film with Yul Brynner and Maria Schell)- as well as "And Quiet Flows the Don" by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, which took him fourteen years to complete (1926–1940).

I actually like it - a long time ago as an impressionable young adult. I saw the Russian film version (with lots of propaganda) in Moscow in 1963 - 6 hours without understanding a word; at least I was with a date - didn't understand a word the gorgeous Georgian sword dancer said either but that didn't seem to bother me quite as much.

And there is always Doctor Zhivago!

Good night.

[Tasha]

I still have yet to read Dr. Zhivago! My mom Loved The Brothers Karamazov.
What were you doing in Russia?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Book links everyone! Don't forget your book links! :D

I think The Brothers Karamazov can be downloaded for free. I am sure I have seen in as a free download on GR.

Yes, here tis;
http://www.goodreads.com/ebooks/searc...

[Tasha]

Doctor Zhivago
This cover is the one I own.

[Inge]

Sorry about the missing book links. I was reminiscing too much.

Tasha, I worked at the French Embassy for a year and generally hoped to stay out of the KGB limelight - especially when I travelled to (then still) Leningrad, as well as Kiev and on to Sochi on the Black Sea. After all, it was during the Cuba crisis and things were a bit dicey for Westerners.

[Erin]

I am reading WINNER STANDS ALONE by PAOLO COELHO

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Those would have been frightening times to be a foreigner in Russia!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Here you are Erin,

[Inge]

Terri wrote: "Those would have been frightening times to be a foreigner in Russia!"

Well, I was young (and ignorant). Plus, you might have missed the "Georgian Sword Dancer" comment above. He was not IN the movie...

[Erin]

Terri wrote: "Here you are Erin,
"

hahahah thank you for that =P Awwww =P Have you read this yourself?

[Tasha]

I was in Russia in the late 80s and remember seeing some KGB, it was weird...and scary. My sister and I are first generation Americans (my mom is Russian, her family escaped during the war) so we were told to be careful because we were still considered Russian citizens if we got in trouble. We were 'good' girls. ;)

Inge, it sounds like you have lived an amazingly exciting life!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Erin wrote: "

hahahah thank you for that =P Awwww =P Have you read this yourself?"

No, I am afraid I haven't read that one.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Did you see the castle that Inge used to live in, Tasha?

In the first few posts of the Escape to a Castle thread.
Inge certainly had an adventurous childhood too. :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Here's the link to that thread..
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...

[[deleted user]]

Currently I'm reading notes from a discussion held by a pack of Rabid Readers outining what books the had their noses into, so to peak.

Alarums, excursions, arguments (always pleasant) a certain amout of fanning of selves...

aaaaaaa-

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

lol. Diana. I was wondering where you got to today. :D

[[deleted user]]

Hi, Terri -
I got a lot done. I also learned that my printer somehow was disconnected from the rest of my system. I did NOT hurl it from the window, as I wished. Tomorrow I re-install it.

And I'll be setting up another Goodreads giveaway in the next couple days. The last one was fun.

I hired an out-of-work neighbor to do some yard work for e, and paid him generously. He did such a fabulous job, I'm thinking of approaching him regarding a long-term arrangement.

AND I have been enjoying photos. The book itself doesn't particularly interest me, but the person in question is rather decorative...

Heck! Photo doesn't want to post, so here's a link:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__c...

Handsome horse, no? Man not so bad, either, though the character is a bit of a complicated rotter...

[Bobby]

Diana wrote: "Hi, Terri -
I got a lot done. I also learned that my printer somehow was disconnected from the rest of my system. I did NOT hurl it from the window, as I wished. Tomorrow I re-install it.

And I..."

Did you see what happened to him last week?? Love the show!!

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Jamie Lannister. What a shame (Game of Thrones spoiler here) (view spoiler)[ that he sleeps with his sister. :( (hide spoiler)]


I would say I haven't watched last weeks show yet as we are behind the US by many episodes. I too LOVE the series. :)

[[deleted user]]

Bobby wrote: "Did you see what happened to him last week?? Love the show!!..."

I don't watch the show. Not becausee it's bad, or anything like, but because I don't have a TV.

It all started when I got sick of Cable. Too expensive and nothing to watch. So I canceled it and got satellite TV instead. This worked well from November through March, then reception got bad. So I called the satellite people, and they told me that I had to approach my neighbor and tell him to cut the tops off his tall, beautiful, fully-developed Norway Maples because now that they had leafed out, were interfering with my reception.

ah... no.

So no TV for seven years.

@Terri, re 'spoiler': Yeah. But why?

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Game of Thrones spoiler
Why does he (view spoiler)[ sleep with his sister? I guess anything goes for George Martin. (hide spoiler)]
Or why the spoiler?
Some people haven't read the first book and I don't want to ruin their experience of the book or tv series by revealing a surprise from the early parts of the book.

[[deleted user]]

The first one. The individual in question has the expression of one with a perpetual migraine. And one (me) has some doubt as to whether the hair sported by that one came from her own head or from the tail of an obliging palomino...

I like the 'spoiler' feature, myself.

Incidentally, I'm one of those criminals who always reads endings first. Unless I've promised (with suitable enticements) not to.

[Tasha]

Terri wrote: "Did you see the castle that Inge used to live in, Tasha?

In the first few posts of the Escape to a Castle thread.
Inge certainly had an adventurous childhood too. :)"

Wow, impressive...except of course all thse steps... ;)

[[deleted user]]

On Galloping horses:

Quasi-standard wisdom/practice in the mounted arms (at least from a while ago) was to walk a mile, trot a mile and gallop a mile. I would think the 'gallop' is a canter ('slow gallop') rather than a ventre à terre whizzing right along. This was done to cover ground at a steady rate without killing your horse.

Incidentally, I was interested to read that pacers were favored for speed (as in used by messengers) whereas trotters (diagonal feet going forward at the same time) were considered more secure and used for the military.

Amazing what useless information we pick up, though if I ever decide to raise a regiment of cavalry (mounted, I think, on Morgans), I'll know a few thing...

[Crystal]

Tasha wrote: "I preferred C&P over AK but I think some of the people I read both with enjoyed the opposite. :)"

I hated AK! I was so ticked off at the end. It was a good book, the ending ruined it for me. I'm too modarn a female I guess.

[Lia]

I just started Gods and Kings by Lynn Austin, the topic sounds interesting but this is the first book by this author that I ever read so I am in the dark about the writing style (to be honest, I am not even sure if this is Historical Fiction or Alternative History...[blush]...).

[Linda]

Gods and Kings I liked it. I wrote a review and launched it, but there is no telling where it landed.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Lia wrote: "I just started Gods and Kings by Lynn Austin, the topic sounds interesting but this is the first book by this author that I ever read so I am in the dark about the writing style (to be honest, I am..."

I'm with you Lia, I wouldn't have a clue if that is HF or Alternate history.

Linda, do you know? Which is it?

[Linda]

Lol, but I would say hf. It is a guess with me too.

[Linda]

I reviewed my review. There I stated that Ms Austin's research was very good. What she wrote was in line with THE OLD TESTAMENT OF THE HOLY BIBLE. Generally people sin, repent, are forgiven and then turn around and do the same sin again. They repent, gods or God forgives etc.

[Lia]

Terri wrote: "Lia wrote: "I just started Gods and Kings by Lynn Austin, the topic sounds interesting but this is the first book by this author that I ever read so I am in the dark about the writing style (to be ..."


After some pages into it, this is start to feel like HF.

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Are you liking it straight away, Lia?

[Lia]

Linda wrote: "I reviewed my review. There I stated that Ms Austin's research was very good. What she wrote was in line with THE OLD TESTAMENT OF THE HOLY BIBLE. Generally people sin, repent, are forgiven and ..."

Hmmm... you just described us, human. I think I'll like this book...

[Lia]

Terri wrote: "Are you liking it straight away, Lia?"

Yes. It made me skipped lunch :)

[Terri, Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Lia wrote: "Terri wrote: "Are you liking it straight away, Lia?"

Yes. It made me skipped lunch :)"


Excellent! Now that is why we read books! :D