I have a newly acquired level of refinement. Suck it, hillbillies!

[scott1970]

I've just completed reading Tolstoy's War and Peace....the literary equivalent of Lizzo. Thick, boy! Real thick!

 

[Leee]

Recommend it?
5 stars?

 

[scott1970]

Recommend it?
5 stars?

I'm a lover of history, and the story is centered around Napolean's invasion of Russia. A good portion of it reads like a Russian soap opera set in the early nineteenth century. Tolstoy's great intellect shines through it, though.

Overall, I enjoyed it, but I can't say it's in my pile of favorites.

 

[Olds442]

I don't think I'd understand a Russian soap opera.

 

[Tim Fezziwig]

I need to. I got LOST in Brothers Karamoz,Idiot,Crime and Punish,and Pushkin. Russian lit is swirling.

I'm gearing up for another crack at Ulysses, my 3rd reading,then Moby then I'll hit War and Peace. I'm also tackling two vol of Man without Qualities...2500+ pages!

 

[Who]

@scott1970 , you live dangerously close to Kentucky. Do you ever worry you might get pulled over and they’ll find books in your car?

 

[six-string]

I just read The Iliad and The Odyssey as prep for a sci-fi book called Ilium.
Just started the sci-fi and it is confusing. Battle of Troy on Mars with robots,cyber- humans and computers debating whether Shakespeare or Proust was the better writer.

 

[Tim Fezziwig]

I just read The Iliad and The Odyssey as prep for a sci-fi book called Ilium.
Just started the sci-fi and it is confusing. Battle of Troy on Mars with robots,cyber- humans and computers debating whether Shakespeare or Proust was the better writer.

Tough call,I'd say Shake,more people quote him.

 

[LocoTex]

Good read. I read it a few years back.

 

[Tim Fezziwig]

I'm getting a chub,all this Lit talk.......

 

[LtDave32]

I've just completed reading Tolstoy's War and Peace....the literary equivalent of Lizzo. Thick, boy! Real thick!

Melville's next, Huh? Moby Dick.

No, wait.. Dumas. The Count Of Monte Cristo. There's a back-pocket novel for ya..

I'll expect a book review of both by Wednesday..

 

[Tim Fezziwig]

Mellville's next, Huh? Moby Dick.

Dave,opening bed scene with Queqweg. Comedy gold. Man and savage in bed. Moby expanded my brain,that and Don Q may be my favorite books.

 

[LtDave32]

Dave,opening bed scene with Queqweg. Comedy gold. Man and savage in bed. Moby expanded my brain,that and Don Q may be my favorite books.

Don Quixote, 1000+ pages. Good call!

 

[rcole_sooner]

Crime and Punishment might be my high brow one.

 

[Fiat Lux]

I’m not sure I understand what all the fuss is about in relation to Crime and Punishment… I thought it was a pretty crap story stretched out too much and not told so well… it was after all initially a setialised story for a newspaper IIRC.

Cheers.

 

[LtDave32]

I don't think I'd understand a Russian soap opera.

How 'bout a Russian fashion show?

 

[scott1970]

@scott1970 , you live dangerously close to Kentucky. Do you ever worry you might get pulled over and they’ll find books in your car?

I've never been too worried about the man. Just sayin'...

 

[scott1970]

I’m not sure I understand what all the fuss is about in relation to Crime and Punishment… I thought it was a pretty crap story stretched out too much and not told so well… it was after all initially a setialised story for a newspaper IIRC.

Cheers.

I thought Crime and Punishment was superb. The main character's descent into madness and paranoia is amazingly written.

 

[dave b]

Like history?
Like big books?
Russian big books?
The Gulag Archipelago.....all three volumes.
Couldn't put it down, and have since read all his stuff.

 

[wildhawk1]

I've just completed reading Tolstoy's War and Peace....the literary equivalent of Lizzo. Thick, boy! Real thick!

If there's a audio version that will make me sleep eight hours straight I'll open my wallet.