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Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : LES MIS: What page are you on? and what stands out to you so far?		33	EnriqueFreeque, Yesterday 11:54pm
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of November 28, 2009?		164	lkernagh, Yesterday 10:05pm
999 Challenge : Kathy's 999 list...		60	kmbooklover, Yesterday 9:12pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Group Read: War and Peace		231	nannybebette, Yesterday 8:45pm
Book talk : What book did you just finish?Like?Dislike?Best?Worst?		27	nannybebette, Yesterday 8:34pm
Book talk : Favorite Books Read in 2009		9	nannybebette, Yesterday 8:26pm
Virago Modern Classics : What Virago Are You Reading VII		242	nannybebette, Yesterday 7:24pm
What Are You Reading Now? : Top 10 Favorite Books		12	Jim53, Yesterday 5:58pm
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : englishrose60's 100+		122	englishrose60, Yesterday 5:32pm
Book talk : Novels about alcoholics... [hic!]		51	marvas, Yesterday 5:14pm
Club Read 2009 : What Are You Reading Now?		14	urania1, Yesterday 5:09pm
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of November 21, 2009?		227	Glorybe1, Yesterday 4:14pm
Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? December 2009		11	lilisin, Yesterday 3:52pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : BJ tries to read 75 Books in 2009, Part 2		311	DirtPriest, Yesterday 2:40pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Whisper1(Linda) Thread #7		433	Whisper1, Yesterday 1:36pm
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Have You STOPPED Reading?		233	DevourerOfBooks, Yesterday 1:22pm
Club Read 2009 : Christopher's 2009 reading		103	kidzdoc, Yesterday 11:45am
The Green Dragon : Whatcha reading in December?		24	janepriceestrada, Yesterday 11:26am
1001 Books to read before you die : Reading "Remembrance of Things Past"		55	jburg, Yesterday 11:19am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : flissp 2: The New Batch		290	flissp, Yesterday 9:52am
Club Read 2009 : Medellia's 2009 Reading #2		80	Medellia, Yesterday 9:37am
50 Book Challenge : nannybebette; belva's 5th		77	mckait, Yesterday 6:45am
50 Book Challenge : Rebeki's 2009 Challenge		120	Rebeki, Yesterday 6:27am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : KIWIDOC #4		171	lindsacl, Yesterday 5:50am
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : wookiebender's 100 challenge for 2009		191	wookiebender, Yesterday 5:43am
Monthly Author Reads : November: Reading Elizabeth von Arnim		49	wookiebender, Yesterday 5:08am
Club Read 2009 : dchaikin's 2009 reading log 2		137	dchaikin, Yesterday 12:08am
50 Book Challenge : Coppers		219	coppers, Tuesday 9:18pm
Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 5		304	ctpete, Tuesday 7:06pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Angela's 2009 Reading List - Chapter Three!		142	alcottacre, Tuesday 6:51pm
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75 Books Challenge for 2009 : The Kitchen, thread #6		278	alcottacre, Tuesday 5:55pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : What We Are Reading - Classics		285	aquascum, Tuesday 5:49pm
1001 Books to read before you die : What should I read for my 100th book?		12	KimB, Tuesday 5:42pm
1001 Books to read before you die : Blondierocket's 1001 Progress		14	blondierocket, Tuesday 4:14pm
Club Read 2009 : Rachbxl's 2009 reading		153	rachbxl, Tuesday 3:00pm
Literary Snobs : What are you reading NOW November 09?		169	Third_cheek, Tuesday 2:19pm
Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? November 2009		84	grelobe, Tuesday 11:22am
Girlybooks : Books about women by men?		69	theaelizabet, Tuesday 7:48am
1010 Category Challenge : Soffitta1's 1010 challenge		45	soffitta1, Tuesday 7:46am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Arubabookwoman's 2009 Challenge--Part II		180	nannybebette, Monday 7:00pm
Reading Globally : janeajones' memorable books from around the world		77	qforce, Monday 12:47am
Le Salon du Faulkner : And you are....?		49	kswolff, Sunday 10:26pm
Literary Snobs : Film Snobs 5--The Cinephiles Strike Back!		122	Mr.Durick, Sunday 6:24pm
What Are You Reading Now? : How many books do you read in parallel?		38	DeltaQueen50, Sunday 2:41pm
What Are You Reading Now? : BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read?		221	Frawks, Sunday 2:02pm
Group Reads - Literature : Life and Fate: Part 3		4	kjellika, Sunday 11:55am
50 Book Challenge : SusanJ's 50 book challenge for 2009		89	susanj67, Sunday 2:50am
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : The Rusky 10 best hitlist		17	copyedit52, Saturday 11:18am
Awful Lit. : Awful Classics?		558	chapterofaccidents, Friday 6:03pm
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of November 7, 2009?		200	Mr.Durick, Friday 4:51pm
25 Books in 2009 : CalamityK books for 2009		69	CalamityK, Thursday 3:59pm
Book talk : 2009 - The Year of the Canny Spartan		162	hailelib, Thursday 6:11am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : jayde1599's 75 in 2009 list		232	jayde1599, November 25
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Les Misérables: The Countdown Begins		63	slickdpdx, November 25
What Are You Reading Now? : Share a line or passage from your current book...		25	jnwelch, November 25
Group Reads - Literature : Life and Fate: Final Thoughts		3	technodiabla, November 24
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : tarendz's 2009 reading		74	tarendz, November 24
Club Read 2009 : booksontrial's 50 book reviews in 2009		79	booksontrial, November 24
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : booksontrial's 50 book reviews in 2009		96	booksontrial, November 24
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : How many books do you read a year ?		67	copyedit52, November 24
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Shijuro's 75 Book Exploration for 2009		83	Shijuro, November 24
1010 Category Challenge : mathgirl40's 1010 challenge		55	mathgirl40, November 23
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of November 14, 2009?		178	slarsoncollins, November 23
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Your personal top 10 all time favorites list(s)		296	tomcatMurr, November 22
1001 Books to read before you die : A very early New Year's resolution thread: which 1,001 novels are you determined to master in 2010?		12	Julia1605, November 22
Club Read 2009 : Tad's 2009 Reads (TadAD)		252	tomcatMurr, November 22
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : TrishNYC's 75 Book Challenge.		227	FlossieT, November 21
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : 2009 Reads for Marcia (allthesedarnbooks) Part 2: 76+		111	_Zoe_, November 21
Group Reads - Literature : Life and Fate: Part 1		36	nannybebette, November 21
Reading Globally : varielle puts on her traveling shoes		4	varielle, November 19
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Group Read: Bleak House		60	alcottacre, November 17
250 book challenge : Sir Furboy's Reading		138	sirfurboy, November 17
Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? October 2009		155	rebeccanyc, November 16
1010 Category Challenge : nannybebette's 10/10/10		56	chrine, November 16
1001 Books to read before you die : How many have you read?		265	ekebivibeke, November 15
1001 Books to read before you die : Do you have reading rules?		17	joelwal, November 14
Folio Society devotees : About Folio ABRIDGED books: facts and information thread		73	boldface, November 13
Geeks who love the Classics : What are your favorite classics?		58	rocketjk, November 13
999 Challenge : BJ's 999 Categories and Books		222	billiejean, November 13
Book talk : 1088 pages!!! it's HUGE Mr. King!		11	shelbyh17, November 12
Audiobooks : Reading vs. Listening		41	karenmarie, November 12
Club Read 2009 : INTRODUCTIONS		274	avaland, November 11
Awful Lit. : Jump ship or go down with it?		93	lbradf, November 11
40-Something Library Thingers : Come in and introduce yourself.		285	LorLe, November 10
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : What is Art? etc. etc. etc.		133	Third_cheek, November 10
Club Read 2009 : Chrine's 2009 Reading		115	chrine, November 10
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Listmania I -- Ten Novels Likeliest to Survive the Test of Time, Not Written Originally in English		42	Macumbeira, November 9
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Group Read: Anna Karenina		151	cakefriend, November 9
Reading Globally : nannybebette's global reads		21	nannybebette, November 9
50 Book Challenge : colinflipper's book list		64	colinflipper, November 9
Geeks who love the Classics : What classic are you reading now?		216	Sandydog1, November 8
George Macy devotees : I'm going to some of my favorite bookshops in a few weeks...any recommendations?		13	Django6924, November 8
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : What We Are Reading - Prize Winners		16	scaifea, November 8
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : 5 Books you would take with you if washed away at sea.		20	Luxx, November 8
Monthly Author Reads : October: Reading Henry James		54	nannybebette, November 7
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of September 19, 2009?		251	Arten60, November 7
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... it? I highly recommend Life and Fate. 7)What are you reading next? I am currently about 2/3 of the way through War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. belva

Continuing my reading of long novels this year, I'm now working on War and Peace. Rebecca, I thought of you--I know you have read it multiple times. I feared that I wouldn't like the war parts as well as the peace parts, but I'm getting along well with both so far. (I am almost to the end of the ...

... My three favorite new books so far have been: The Thirteenth Tale Handling Sin Mystic River I've just begun War and Peace, which I expect to join the list, but I don't know if I'll finish it this year.

... grabbing me as much as I thought it would. I'm determined to finish it before Christmas though - I've got plans to read War and Peace then and I suspect that that could take the whole holiday! Re Sandman, if you're a big Neil Gaiman fan, Sandman is definitely worth investing in (an ...

Both War and Peace and Anna Karenina are definitely worth rereads; in particular, since I read both originally as a teenager, I felt I got a lot more out of them when I reread them in my 40s. As for other books by Vikram Seth, the one I liked the best after A Suitable Boy (which is one ...

... Woolf. China - Read Miss Chopsticks by Xinran. About to start The Diary of Ma Yan. Russia - will continue with War and Peace when time allows.

... /52194997 ...Which as you can tell from my review, I absolutely loved. I decided to keep up the ambition, so I started War and Peace last week. More thoughts on that soon(ish).

... is a play set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. I was wanting to get my hands on it since I knew I would be reading War and Peace this year and thought the two would be nice in conjunction with each other.

... Ursula LeGuin, who asks, if you haven't read the greatest novel ever, what are you waiting for? So I'm a little way into War and Peace, but at the same time I've got a book coming up for my library book club, and I just found out I'll get an Early Reviewer book this month, so W&P will ...

Deborah; You were exactly right about Life and Fate. It is nothing like War and Peace and I got so into it that I left all else by the wayside and finished it a week or so ago. What a novel!~! I am so glad I read it and wanted to thank you for the encouragement. So now I am back into War ...

... that is page 585) Balashov has just departed Napoleon's company and is on his way back to Alexander. I am enjoying War and Peace much more since finishing Life and Fate. Grossman's work was so fast paced and Tolstoy's is slower so it was difficult bouncing back and forth ...

... Odyssey by Homer The Diggerʻs Game by George V. Higgins Gospel of John Gospel of Luke War and Peace by {Lev Tolstoi Thesmophoriazusae by Aristophanes Fasti by Ovid Othello, Julius Caesar, the Merchant of Venice, ...

... going to read some of my unread Norwegian books on my TBR pile, and some Steinbeck (in Norwegian), I think. (I've read War and Peace (Napoleonic War) and Life and Fate (WWII). Chronologically Doctor Zhivago (Revolution (1917?)), should be between them, and to learn more about Russian ...

... I think both of these books sound like good follow-ups to Life and Fate, which I just finished. I continue to read War and Peace, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen, and The Red Rose Girls, (my current tweener). Not a bad one in the bunch!~! belva

... until the 1st nor will I begin Clarel until the 7th. (as dictated/ Tee hee) Perhaps I will be much further along in War and Peace at that time. I need to finish it by year's end. Am loving the reads within this group thus far and I can tell that my literary "mind" is expanding a bit. ...

I didn't take a look at your challenge list, admittedly, but for your 100th you could always go out with a big bang- read War and Peace, Don Quixote, Anne Karenina...one of the biggies.

England - Vanity Fair Russia - War and Peace Italy - The Enchanted April

... I am so glad I read it and I am especially glad that I read it in the spirit of a group read. Now if I can just get past War and Peace; another group read. But I have until the end of the year for that one. Currently I have that on my plate, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen, (at the ...

I am probably 1/3 of the way through War and Peace and am not finding them the same at all. Life and Fate moves along at a fairly good clip. War and Peace rather meanders for me. Not that it is boring, just slower going. Tolstoy, I believe, does get more into the characters and allows ...

... Murakami, but I think I need to go off in a corner and mull over this one for a while first. I'm planning to get back to War and Peace. I'm about half-way through it now. However, I needed something lighter first, so I started a YA novel, Word Nerd, that has been nominated for a number of Ca ...

... they are probably books that I will see in a new light now that I am older (as I did with, for example, Anna Karenina and War and Peace).

I am attempting to finish Life and Fate, and still reading War and Peace, (both group reads), reading The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen, for Author of the Month read and my tweener; The Red Rose Girls: An Uncommon Story of Art and Love. All four are excellent books!~! belva

We got the Audrey Hepburn version of War and Peace via Netflix. Looks interesting, albeit 3 1/2 hours long. Will probably watch it tomorrow sometime. Tonight will probably involve watching some episodes of "How I Met Your Mother."

... postage stamps. Lots of new choices here. The pile grows... Ok, capricious, arbitrary, temporal, not in any order: War and Peace A Confederacy of Dunces The Master and Margarita The Brothers Karamazov Hilarious! Uplifting! Light! The Illiad Candide Anna Karenina Nost ...

... postage stamps. Lots of new choices here. The pile grows... Ok, capricious, arbitrary, temporal, not in any order: War and Peace A Confederacy of Dunces The Master and Margarita The Brothers Karamazov Hilarious! Uplifting! Light! The Illiad Candide Anna Karenina Nost ...

... guess the answer to your question is four. At the moment I my group reads are: Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. My book is Elizabeth von Arnim's The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen for my 3rd Author of the Month read. And my current "tweener" ...

... we can continue with our other reading commitments. I am currently deep into two group reads myself: Life and Fate and War and Peace and will be starting Clarel and Les Miserables when the time and books arrive but those will hopefully be done by year's end excepting for the latter two. ...

... and perhaps for the read. And I have never seen the musical. I am still caught up in group reads of Life and Fate and War and Peace so I kind of hate to get a 3rd great one going. belva

War and Peace as my 200'th book - currently 150. Also read some authors still new to me eg Rushdie,Kafka,Murakami

... mentioned. I love that term for that debauched father and son duo: Sensualists! Heck, people drank all the time in War and Peace. But the book wasn't just about dangling from windows and pranks with bears. And don't forget there were some pretty rude outcomes to drinking, if you ...

... read and really enjoyed it and all of the comments and the discussion. I, too, am reading Life and Fate along with War and Peace for group reads; am less than 300 pages into each. The former reads very quickly while the latter; not so much. But I like and am appreciating both of ...

... and hopefully still have time for The Pastor's Wife and Christopher and Columbus. We'll see. I am in the midst of War and Peace and Life and Fate as well. So as time allows............... belva

Still reading War and Peace (it seems a little slow), Life and Fate (it seems a little fast) and The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen (it seems just right). belva

... my shoulders, my forehead, my jaw..." How beautifully written is that? What a difference; reading this and reading War and Peace at the same time. War and Peace is actually relaxing after this. Right now at the beginning of the book there is so much happening in so many different ...

... that the participants chose a book worthy of controversy. I like it----a lot!~! I am finding myself in the middle of War and Peace and beginning Life and Fate and The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen. All very good thus far. There for a while I had to put down War and Peace. Just ...

... Enchanted April, Elizabeth and Her German Garden, The Virago Book of Ghosts and People of the Book. Still reading War and Peace, started Life and Fate and The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen. I think I will be until the year's end with War and Peace and Life and Fate but it ...

... know. They are both group reads and Life and Fate was supposed to be before Vanity Fair (though I was already reading War and Peace but my Vanity Fair arrived first so I just switched the order of the read for myself. (I know, I know----do that on here and die!~!) You will probably ...

... research as I read. But I know that is good for me so I don't worry about that kind of pressure. Right now I am reading War and Peace, Life and Fate and The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen. I just finished Vanity Fair, People of the Book and Elizabeth and Her German Garden. So ...

I'm so glad Chrissy continues to improve. I don't think Life and Fate is very much like War and Peace, other than that they both are set during war and are huge family sagas. I've only read about 250 pp of Life and Fate so far, but my advice would be Do Not skip this book.

... it very good, but would have liked to have seen more of each main character's story line. So ............ still with War and Peace and Elizabeth's German Garden. Have not yet begun Life and Fate. I may finish War and Peace first. Have any of you read both of them? Are they ...

... ). Master & Margarita is right up there for me too! I also loved Crime and Punishment and Fathers and Sons. And War and Peace. Just read AK and loved it too. Have not read any Pushkin. Does Nabokov count? I loved Speak, Memory.

>546 I agree! People will be discussing Job for another 2 or 3 thousand years. >552 War and Peace was well worth it, although after marching through it all I do recall I found the second epilogue a bit tedious. Tolstoy has some great short(er) stories. I too thought The Death of Ivan ...

... Tolstoy. His character development was ultra-realistic in The Death of Ivan Illych and I can't wait to find time to read War and Peace. Yes, I said it, I willingly would love to read War and Peace.

... the order of my reads. Now I shall begin Life and Fate. I understand it is very good, but I am still also reading War and Peace so I'm hoping they are quite different. The POTB group read is going wonderfully well as it should with all the participation and great comments I have been ...

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev, it could replace Chalamov or Tchekov. And War and Peace is better than Anna Karenina.

... biography of Dickens by Peter Ackroyd. I appreciate them far more that way. I didn't do that when I read War and Peace nine years ago, tried to read it like a "normal" novel with the result I remembered almost none of it and intend to read it again some day.

Okaaaaaaaaaay; Am reading People of the Book (group read), War and Peace (group read), Vanity Fair (group read) Elizabeth and her German Garden (Author of the Month read), Real Stories of Life Changing Moments (ARC/ER), and I think that is it for now. November is a busy month. I have ...

... Eliot's grief over her disadvantage as a woman (someone, was it Eliot herself? said that a woman could never have written War and Peace, which was published around the same time) and I let that one-dimensional idea of GE influence my perception of the book to a ridiculous degree. Now I want ...

... Gabaldon A review will come soon, I am still mulling over her latest Outlander novel. Still working my way through War and Peace, I am not sure if I will finish it this year, but I have gotten further along than last year! I need something lighter, so I am starting The Guernsey Liter ...

... currently reading (and loving every page) Vanity Fair and then will move on to Life and Fate. Still slogging through War and Peace. Not loving it as I did Anna Karinina. Have read The Enchanted April and have several more of hers lined up for the month. I love how she writes and ...

Hmmmmmmmmmm, forgot where I was and what thread I was on. I am still battling my way through War and Peace for Stacia's group read although I haven't picked it up for a few weeks. Need to jump back on that old horse. Not at all loving it as I did his Anna Karinina. I am midway through my ...

... Complete Works of Shakespeare and the Iliand and the Odyssey. I love the idea of dual-language versions. I might add in War and Peace too. Of course, the old joke is that the best book to have is one that teaches you to build a ship and navigate!

Massive congrats for a massive book! I haven't read War and Peace (plenty of time for that, right?) but I think I'll be reading Anna Karenina next year too. After reading all the positive responses from the group read and other LT-ers this year, how could I not?

Lol Carolyn... I would like to say that there are NO spoilers below, so feel free to read: 127. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy I've been participating in our group read, and I was just in the mood to finish this today. What an epic! I must confess that I was more interested in the people ...

... Madame de Lafayette Germinal by Zola or Madame Bovary by Flaubert -- or both The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky War and Peace by Tolstoy Kristin Lavransdatter by Undset Steppenwolf by Hesse The Tin Drum by Gunter Grasse A Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez

... and Narrow Path by Honor Tracy Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons For getting absorbed in another world: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann For escapism: Mysteries in general

Still reading War and Peace with the group, and Bleak House. Almost done! I need to re-read The Woman in White and The Moonstone. So many on this challenge have read them lately and I'm jealous! I really enjoyed them when I was in high school and I'm curious to see what I would think ...

... to read a couple more in the series first to cement my mental image, but I'm not sure how. I'm still wading through War and Peace (yes, it's been months). I started Šimečka's The Year of the Frog but was only a couple pages in when the library called to remind me that Abraham's The ...

... on the cover. But yes, i agree that an exception. Exceptions to the reverse situation might include books like Lolita, War and Peace, and Moby Dick, where the book title has (nominally, generally) more impact than the author's name.

... is beyond time and place and the author's own dislike for it. In his later years, Tolstoy rejected his early works like War and Peace and Anna Karenina But Waugh did a beautiful job of capturing a world that would obliterated in the aftermath of World War 2 and the ascendancy of the Lab ...

... know of some people who power through about twenty Mills & Boon books in a few weeks. I'd rather spend a whole year reading War and Peace (which I haven't yet read btw) than read large piles of trash. And then again, I'd rather be that person reading all the Mills & Boon than someone who ...

... Patterson, in his intro, summarizes Tolstoy's despair like this: "In the Fall of 1879 the fifty-one-year old author of War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877) came to believe that he had accomplished nothing in life and that his life was meaningless. Either of these works would ...

... the Galsworthy trilogy...good for you. I enjoyed seeing it on Masterpiece and would like to read that some day. I read War and Peace last year and am still resting on those laurels! >227: I am chuckling about the imagery of a goldfish lighting in a willow tree. No wonder I don't ...

... BJ - but even more congratulations on the 'Tolstoy double' - fantastic! My only real reading goal for this year was to read War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and I've failed miserably (the likelihood of my managing it in the just-over-2-months-remaining of 2009 is vanishingly small). Ah well :) ...

... been putting to bed my fourteenth book and feeling like my head was going to explode. Who made sure all the characters in War and Peace were consistent? This book's about a little girl who's been lost in a bet by her father to an Indian--at least it starts that way. I don't really believe that ...

... different names and when I heard Davidson's voice from David Case, I thought audible made a mistake. I like his reading of War and Peace, Around the World in 80 Days and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but not Journey to the Center of the Earth, because when he tries to imitate the German ...

Umm, not sure. I'll have to get out the scales & find out if Moby Dick or War and Peace comes in at the heaviest....

Russia - War and Peace and Life and Fate. Brazil - Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado. Europe - The Golden Bowl by Henry James. USA - The Question of Max by Amanda Cross.

3 books to be read: War and Peace Macbeth The Spanish Bride 3 favorite Olympic sports (summer or winter): Ice Dancing Ice Skating Gymnastics

I am not sure what the best would be but last year when I had an hour commute each way I tried War and Peace read by Neville Jason and I absolutley could not follow it and all. I tried several times, too many characters, I wasn't always sure who was talking. I gave up. Not to go off on a ...

... the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded from 1901 onward, so they had at least 8 chances to acknowledge the author of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, etc. All of the authors I mentioned in post 18 were alive and writing during the period when the prize was being awarded. As were Shōhei Ō ...

Here's a heads-up on some of the translations available on our big book selections.... For Russian novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina I like the new translations by Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky - I re-read both of these books and there is no question that the new translation ...

Here's a heads-up on some of the translations available on our big book selections.... For Russian novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina I like the new translations by Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky - I re-read both of these books and there is no question that the new translation ...

The essays are a good example of where I prefer this book to War and Peace. They seem so much more organic to the book. (I abandoned Tolstoy's essay at the end of War and Peace--just couldn't make it through.) I feel less as if Grossman is pontificating, and more as if he's moving the story ...

... ovenia Anna Karenina is the only book that I am counting for this challenge that I actually read last year. Other than War and Peace, it's the perfect book for Russia.

>28 This is the woman who's reading War and Peace and Life and Fate simultaneously. I think she's bionic. ;o)

BJ- Congrats on finishing War and Peace! I have not read very much Russian literature. American snob, I guess. Although I plan to, one of these days!

Heading back to Brazil and Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado. Experiencing War and Peace and Life and Fate in Russia. Sitting for The Portrait of a Lady in Europe. Also Crawling at Night with Nani Power.

I finally finished War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy for the 1001 books category. And amazingly, the touchstones on this list came back. Yeah! I love Tolstoy and enjoyed this book, but it is definitely on the long side. This could also have gone in the Book to Screen category, and I have heard ...

... even purchased the current book. I started the last one, but read other books instead. Speaking of which . . . 74. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I finally finished this book. For some reason, I got the urge to get closure in my long group reads all of a sudden. I still love this book, ...

... count a whole series as one bok, I thought). I read one and have no intention of wasting my life reading any more. 2 War and Peace - yes, I probably should but I probably never will. 3 One Hundered Years of Solitude - I've got it. i will read it eventually. 4 Anne of Green Ga ...

>30 Are you still reading War and Peace too? Wow, all those Russian names are going to have you spinning!!!

teelgee, I shall arrive there on Monday. Meanwhile I am in Australia with Oscar and Lucinda as well as Russia in War and Peace.

... Robert Musil 685. Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence 693. Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust 862. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 873. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 899. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 905. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 94 ...

... to St. John Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Ox Bow Incident by Walter VanTilburg Clark War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

... book) Oblomov Portrait of a Lady Collected works of WH Auden Collected works of Shakespeare Brothers Karamazov War and Peace Middlemarch Gravity's Rainbow The adventures of Augie March I have a tag in my library called Really Great Books, which are the books I revere and ...

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy The War Between the Tates Alison Lurie She goes to war Edith Pargeter God's War Christopher Tyerman War before civilization Lawrence Keeley

... 100-page increments (each of which is read over the course of a month), just like we are doing with the group reads for War and Peace and Bleak House this year. OK, Linda, you can have your thread back now :)

... d. Daisy Miller in Europe. Continuing my visit with Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in Brazil. and still battling with War and Peace in Russia.

... and very short so by this evening I should be able to begin H.J. You are very sweet to encourage me along. I have dropped War and Peace for the time being and will pick it up at some point in the future. It was just slogging along which with all that has been happening within the family bored ...

... or Virago (or woman) author but a similar theme and very, very good. And to everyone who found the battle scenes in War and Peace a hard slog, I can only say, "Me, too!" Speaking of slogging, Company Parade is dragging in big way. I just can't work up any interest in Hervey Russell. ...

I have to agree with you Belva. I am dutifully reading War and Peace, bit finding parts of it a real drag, the fighting campaigns mainly. although I am getting to know some of the characters.

... which I am enjoying but my copy is a mass market copy and the print is tttttiny!~! And I am finding excuses not to finish War and Peace, which I am not enjoying so much. Perhaps because I just read Anna Karinina. I do like the storyline, but it takes sooooooooooo long for anything in his ( ...

I really enjoy her style of writing. I find it very relaxing. I finally tossed War and Peace and Dracula last night. I had been picking up everything else to read but them and I am over half way through Dracula and about 1/3 of the way through War and Peace, but I just don't want to ...

... to, throbbing with life, true to life (for the times), endearing and quite brilliant!~! I don't really want to go back to War and Peace and Dracula at this point as I seem to be slogging along through, but I think I will just bite the bullet now that Banned Books Week is over and finish them. ...

... reading The Eye of the World and I probably will be until judgement day and trumpets sound. It's a huge book. Maybe not War and Peace... but still.

Russia - War and Peace Book 2 by Leo Tolstoy. England - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - audiobook. Brazil - Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado.

No rush, chrine. I am in the midst of a War and Peace group read that I am waaaaaaaaaay behind on and attempting to do the Halloween reads (just some of them) with that group so am half way through Dracula and it is Banned Books Week so I am cramming in as many of those as I can. I do have my ...

I didn't make it back to War and Peace nor Dracula because laytonwoman3rd kindly reminded us that it was "Banned Book Week" so I read Their Eyes Were Watching God and have begun The Awakening. From there I will go on to To Kill a Mockingbird and then The Catcher in the Rye, given time. ...

Yup, just call me a rebel. I am reading Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Also War and Peace and Dracula. belva

Okay, let's try to crawl back into our own life for a while. I have left off Dracula and War and Peace for a bit and have been indulging in some comfy, cozy reads. September was Daphne Du Maurier Author of the Month Read so: Myself When Young by Daphne du Maurier my thoughts ...

... Progress of Julius is next up and has not arrived as of yet so it looks like I am done for this month of reads. Back to War and Peace and Dracula; both group reads. I am looking forward to next month's reads with Henry James. See you then. belva

I am still in Russia with War and Peace, still in Transylvania with Dracula, have been in Cornwall and France with Myself When Young, The Loving Spirit (loved them both), and I'll Never be Young Again (1st half just so-so; 2nd half much better), and in England with The Lost Memoirs of Ja ...

... I can then embark on Count of Monte Cristo which incidentally will be the 150th on the list. I had thought of reading War and Peace as my 150th but the Count is just about as hefty and therefore a most worthy challenge for this "momentous event".

... which takes its basis from the 13th century Spanish Reconquista. Hated Moby Dick. Still plowing my way through War and Peace and While in the Hands of the Enemy...for both I want large blocks of uninterrupted time and never seem to find it.

If I remember, Pierre is the voice of Tolstoy or Tolstoy-like character in War and Peace while in Anna Karenina it's Levin who fills that role. I was enthralled with Anna Karenina, while distracted by other matters when I read War and Peace, so I'd like to read it again especially as there's a ...

Russia - War and Peace Book 2. England - Daphne by Justine Picardie.

... Literature 01. Les Miserables 02. Infinite Jest 03. In Search of Lost Time 04. The Recognitions 05. War and Peace 06. Crime and Punishment 07. David Copperfield 08. The Royal Family 09. Women and Men 10. The Master and Margarita Being called to dinner; ...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Sweet Kids : How to Balance Diabetes Control and Good Nutrition with Family Peace by the American Diabetes Association Buddha Never Raised Kids and Jesus Didn't Drive Carpool by Vickie Falcone I Never Promised Y ...

I did read War and Peace in high school school - Pierre was my favorite character. Never read Anna Karenina, though. I agree with you about the history coming in - I am just at the point where the high court has decided that the Zamindar bill didn't violate the constitution. I'm interested in ...

... kids and a new job, I was brain-dead most of the time. 40+: Starting to read more substantial stuff again. Attempting War and Peace. Book of Negroes, House of Leaves, The Killing Circle, more Margaret Atwood. Young-adult books, including Philip Pullman, Neil Gaiman and Shane Peacock.

... books from the library such as Heidi, Little Women, Nancy Drew mysteries.... 15: My "Russian Summer" when I read War and Peace, Fathers and Sons, The Brothers Karamazov and short stories by Gogol, as well as Madame Bovary and Lorna Doone, all off of my parents' bookshelves (the ...

... - My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier. USA - Magnetism by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Oh! And still in Russia with War and Peace. And I shall be going to the Circus with Alistair Maclean somewhere in Europe.

#192 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy War and Peace is one of those strangely priveleged books that will be read not because of what it depicts but because what it is. It is hard to think of a longer book than this in the English language (although of course, this is a Russian novel) - and even if ...

... so much better, but I do think I will take my book and hit the rack early tonight. Need to get a couple more "Parts" of War and Peace under my belt by the end of the month and then I can just read one "Part" per week and finish with the group read. YEA!~!~! That will give me plenty of "read ...

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

I am reading War and Peace and was surprised when I came upon this passage: "Prince Andrey was on duty that day, and in close attendance on the commander-in-chief. At six o'clock in the evening Kutuzov visited the headquarters of the Emperors, and after a brief interview with the Tsar, went ...

... hear how you like it and to read your review!~! hugs, But as to what I am reading now: Currently I am in Part III of War and Peace by Tolstoy and was surprised to see his name actually come up in the book. And I am 1/3 of the way through Dracula by Bram Stoker. As soon as I ...

... wait on another for the time being. So now I am down to Dracula for the Halloween Thread Reads and the group read of War and Peace. Once I finish Dracula, then I will grab Outlander. And I think I will be all good then. I honestly do not know how our little --BJ does it!?!?!? Somet ...

... wait on another for the time being. So now I am down to Dracula for the Halloween Thread Reads and the group read of War and Peace. Once I finish Dracula, then I will grab Outlander. And I think I will be all good then. I honestly do not know how our little --BJ does it!?!?!? Somet ...

I am bouncing too Belva between Russia, War and Peace and had a recent foray into England with The Virgin and the Gipsy a love story by D.H. Lawrence.

I am bouncing back and forth between Russia with War and Peace and Transylvania with the Count in Dracula. belva

... not read) 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (numerous times) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (currently reading) 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punis ...

I think I have too many books going at the same time right now. I am reading War and Peace and trying to catch up with the group read. I am now into the 3rd Book or Part. I am also reading Dracula as part of the Halloween reading group list and then will move onto Poe, but that may be all I ...

... and getting rest. Not much reading I am afraid. However; I am still in Russia, but out on the frontlines now with War and Peace; waaaaaaaaaaaaaay light years out in space (what space, I do not know) with The Player of the Games; in Transylvania with Dracula; in Cranford with Cra ...

... messing about with Three Men in a Boat on the Thames and about to Kiss the Girls Goodbye in London. I am also at War and Peace in Russia and will be for the rest of 2009. About to engage with The Cobra's Heart in East Africa.

... cracked it open, and my eye alit on the importance of slime. I put it in my basket. I also got a three DVD rendition of War and Peace. I had supper, but I didn't get to see a movie. They sold the shirt to me at a discount, so it cost less than the books. Robert

... the book that inkspot challenged me to read. (shh, I am enjoying it and I hate sci-fi so don't tell) I am 163 pages into War and Peace which runs about 1100, but I will read that one while reading other reads as it is for a group read. I am just excited that we will be challenging one ...

... map. That just seems to make the most sense to me. Yesterday I wasn't feeling well and spent most of the day in bed. War and Peace wasn't cutting it for me; too much concentrating to do there, so I sojourned to Ghana with Maya Angelou's All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes (ye ...

Yesterday because I was ill I spent the day in bed reading and napping. I got a few more pages of War and Peace in, but it just wasn't doing the job so I picked out a couple of others. I grabbed Strawberry Girl a Y.A. by Loin Lenski and quite loved it. I will be keeping this one. It is ...

... plays center and he broke through the line and got 3 sacks and 7 tackles. What a kid!~! Anyway I got a few more pages of War and Peace under the my belt (up to pp 163 now), but wasn't in the mood so I grabbed a Y.A., (never read 'em unless it's a beloved from my past) and a Virago and took ...

>#3: Good morning Valerie; Would love to have you join me for the War and Peace read. The group read link is here: War and Peace - http://www.librarything.com/topic/54191 I have really barely begun. Only on page 80 something right now. But will 1100 pages, I figure if I only read 11 ...

Belva, I have not read War and Peace yet or Anna Karenina. Might join you with W & P. Where is the group read for it? See you managed the map! You get around girl! Valerie.

... elsewhere having persuaded me that it wasn't really my kind of thing, but I'm stuck in Poland for 3 months with nothing but War and Peace and a load of Polish books, and last week I desperately needed to escape into something lighter. Unsurprisingly, my local bookshops here are not exactly ...

... travel guide Some of the places my reads have taken me in September, 2009: Russia: War and Peace Florida, U.S.A.: Strawberry Girl Transylvania: Dracula Outer Space: The Player of the Games France: Carmilla: a Vampyre Tale England: Cranf ...

And she's off: We begin in Moscow, Russia where we are just 83 pages into War and Peace; having just joined the group read for that one. They began January 1st, 2009 and will finish at year's end. I am hoping to finish with them. I may or may not backtrack and pick up some of my other ...

I am currently in Moscow, Russia just breaking well into War and Peace. Amazing how much it reminds me of his Anna Karinina. belva

... 100 miles South of you. My head and tummy are a bit off yesterday and yet today so I am going to take it easy and read War and Peace today. I think I only have to read something like 11 pages a day to finish by year's end. And I am also reading (but it is my bedtime read) a sci fi The Pla ...

Would you be interested in doing a group read again, Angela? Maybe starting mid-January like we did this year for War and Peace?

After finishing War and Peace up this year (hopefully by December), I am seriously thinking of doing Anna Karenina next year. I am glad to see you read and enjoyed it!

I love Anna Karenina, Stasia! It's a much quicker read than War and Peace, at least for me.

... is the link: http://www.librarything.com/groups/illreadyoursifyoullr I am also (well, I started last night) reading War and Peace along with the group read of that one on the 75 book gig. They began in January and plan to be done by year's end. I am going to read like *ell and try to ...

... will most likely order it today. And I am certain that I will not finish it before you as I just joined the group read of War and Peace that was begun in January and is set to end at year's end. So I will be reading 2 biggies, plus I joined the "I'll Read Yours if You Read Mine'' challenge ...

I am currently reading Susan Wiggs's The Winter Lodge; her 2nd of the Lakeshore Chronicles series, just beginning War and Peace by Tolstoy for the group read that began in January on the 75 gig, (we shall see if I can catch up and finish with them at year end), and also beginning The ...

... border="0" alt="Photobucket"> Group 8: Classic 1. War and Peace 2. Huckleberry Finn 3. Les Miserables Volume I 4. Les Miserables Volume II

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - read it for the last time in 1999 (in Russian) and before this ~1995 in Bulgarian.

... amazing book. I think it is a good idea to separate books by authors usually, except I am reading both Anna Karenina and War and Peace at the same time. However, both of those are slow and steady, so no overkill there. I did the same thing with Anne Tyler! I read 11 of her books in a row ...

I read War and Peace, Middlemarch, quite a few Dickens (not all...yet), the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, The Buddenbrooks, Gone with the Wind and....I am sure I am forgetting some tomes, but the ones I mentioned are hefty enough.

I read most of War and Peace. I skipped the last hundred or so pages, though; the story was over and Tolstoi just seemed to be ruminating on the ideas of war and peace in general, and by then I just didn't care any more. As for the longest novel I've read to date: Clarissa. 500 pp. longer than T ...

I LOVED War and Peace and Middlemarch, but I read them before I had children and a teaching job -- ah youth, ah time.....

Did anyone read that article about a year ago on War and Peace - how none of the major literary reviewers had actually read it? Many people own it but few ever open it. I think it's in Doctor at Sea that he takes it on an ocean voyage and uses it to prop open his cabin door and squash ...

... would you want to find there? The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder - great comfort read to remind me of winter War and Peace - so I could finally finish it The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson - a lifetime's worth of poems that you can get something new from on every reading < ...

... and 3. the 1881 edition of Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon that was my father's. I would also have to grab my copy of War and Peace which was published before they put the publishing date in books. Which book would you like your children to look at and immediately remember you by? My Bi ...

I am reading Remains of the Day with the group read. Also still reading Anna Karenina and War and Peace. --BJ

... a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy 5. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles 6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 7. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 8. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

These will be my 2010 reading categories: - Mystery - Sci-fi / fantasy - New Canadian books (published in 2009 or 2010) - New young adult books (published in 2008 or later) - Nonfiction - Classic - Recommended books - Agatha Christie - Unplanned (ARCs, spontaneous) - Asian authors I'm ...

... that in many cases the Society's Limited Edition offerings are brilliant. I just wish they would have brought out an LE War and Peace with the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation, a Metamorphosis in a modern translation with specially-commissioned art, and a Don Quixote with the Samuel Putnam ...

I fully agree about War and Peace. At least, lop off those epilogues! Also, I found Catch-22 extremely repetitive and in need of a ruthless trimming.

I would never, ever advise anyone to read Nicolas Nickleby all the way through. And though I enjoyed War and Peace and would never refer to it as "awful lit", the long, heavy-handed meditation on history at the end gave me a (mental) hernia.

... volumes first and working my way from there. Sometimes I reward myself with lighter, slimmer novels between monsters like War and Peace and Atlas Shrugged. Good luck! I've found the best strategy is to never let myself feel overwhelmed by all the books I've amassed. I just enjoy what I'm ...

... to finish out this category, both by Tolstoy. I am almost finished with Anna Karenina but have a long way to go with War and Peace. Still, I think I can finish them both this year. I am planning to finish this challenge by the end of the year. I just can't read that many books by 9/9/09 ...

... I know I have read some huge volumes in the last three years like Les Miserables, Clarissa, Poor Fellow My Country, War and Peace, Atlas Shrugged etc etc, but even still I'm unsure I couldn't manager that amount.

I did a tagmash on Moscow, fiction and came up with these books: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith Pattern Recognition by William Gibson The Night Watch by Sergei Lu ...

... a break after that one! Unfortunately, I've got While in the Hands of The Enemy (non-fiction about Civil War prisons), War and Peace (ever so slowly) and Tangerine ('cause my daughter has to read it over the summer) going as my other books, none of which provide the high-fructose-corn-syru ...

... End, A Month in the Country, and Cold Comfort Farm, among others, were all very good. The Russian version of War and Peace is amazing. Various TV series, again more European than US, have been good at recreating the books, including the BBC series of the The Raj Quarter, Tink ...

Never mind I will be flagged and censored no matter what I say. Then no one can even defend what I said because it will be gone.

Hey I read War and Peace when I was eleven. How does that add up on the parental unit worry meter?

11: I also just read Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism I thought it was a lot of fun. Another 100 pages of War and Peace. . ..

... downloads to my Kindle: Little Bee by Chris Cleave....so much Buzz here and elsewhere (forgive the pun) War and Peace ...the Peaver/Volokhonsky translation.. ahem ;-}

Conquest of the Useless, Werner Herzog's journal from the making of 'Fitzcarraldo." War and Peace.

... tricks, but a wealth of story telling in exceedingly self-effacing prose. Its great achievement, similar to Tolstoy's in War and Peace, is to combine a huge epic sweep with a myriad of telling, microscopic details of the quotidian and totally believable and loveable characters, who change and ...

The Tale of Genji Don Quixote Tristam Shandy Middlemarch War and Peace Ulysses ....'wishing you a loonnngg vacation!

... Leaves, but there was no reason to. I started and never finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Oops. I gave up on War and Peace too. I got about 40% of the way through, which in my edition is around page 500, and when I hit another "war" section I just ditched the whole thing.

Just finished The Karamazov Brothers that I thoroughly enjoyed. Having read War and Peace before that I've decided to have a break from the long Russian novel. After some ruminating and scanning my TBR pile I've decided....Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.......a change of continent ...

Just finished The Karamazov Brothers that I thoroughly enjoyed. Having read War and Peace before that I've decided to have a break from the long Russian novel. After some ruminating and scanning my TBR pile I've decided....Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.......a change of ...

War and Peace. Wanted to read it, tried to read it, couldn't get past a quarter of it. Maybe one day I'll make another attempt ...

... on himself, then I must say that I enjoyed the book as his autobiography, as I've become an ardent fan after reading his War and Peace and What is Art. As a novel, however, this book is not as captivating as War and Peace (there is a reason why W&P has been considered by many as the ...

It took me an entire summer to read War and Peace (long ago) -- how else does one digest the pain and glory of it?

... books would I have to have read in order to consider myself well-read? Crime and Punishment The Brother Karamazov War and Peace Lolita Don Quixote Pride and Prejudice Atlas Shrugged As I Lay Dying A Farewell to Arms The Grapes of Wrath Mrs Dalloway Faust Nau ...

... books would I have to have read in order to consider myself well-read? Crime and Punishment The Brother Karamazov War and Peace Lolita Don Quixote Pride and Prejudice Atlas Shrugged As I Lay Dying A Farewell to Arms The Grapes of Wrath Mrs Dalloway Faust Nau ...

Finished Part II. #116: spacepotatoes, It may be "father's instinct". A similar scenario occurred in War And Peace where old Prince Bolkonsky acutely judged the character of his daughter's suitor and turned down the marriage proposal. The fellow, Anatole, later attempted to seduce and ...

... on, but suffice it to say, the ideal bedside book when you don't have enough energy to make it through another chapter of War and Peace. The Folio edition is handsome and very nicely done with beautiful marbled paper sides. It is a thick 12mo, and though I prefer my LEC Devil's Dictionary ...

... Because I read mostly non-fiction, I don't expect much from the narrators except that they speak clearly and fluently. War and Peace is the only fiction book (so far) that I both read and listened to. The narrative by Frederick Davidson is a good one. He captures the personalities and ...

Finished War and Peace, sticking to Russia at the moment with The Karamazov Brothers and then I've promised myself something lighter

My literary life moves along at its snail pace with the same two books occupying me this week. War and Peace, I'm now entering the final third and although I'll withhold judgement on my views it has certainly encouraged the choice of my next reading treats. My non fiction read continues to ...

My literary life moves along at its snail pace with the same two books occupying me this week. War and Peace, I'm now entering the final third and although I'll withhold judgement on my views it has certainly encouraged the choice of my next reading treats. My non fiction read continues to ...

... years is less than one book per week. Piece of cake. (Unless we're talking Ulysses, Remembrance of Things Past and War and Peace!

Congrats on finishing War and Peace!! I'm 150 pages in (*blush*...way behind schedule, but catching up...)

Congrats on finishing War and Peace. What an accomplishment! I'm working on it for the group read. I think we're a little over halfway through it. Can't wait...

Banoo, Nice photos and footnotes. :) I enjoyed reading your review of War and Peace too. How do yo compare Pierre and Levin?

... did I want to turn back. I'd like to say I persevered because I was pig headed, reality was I was the worse map reader. War and Peace has been that first 8 hours, how many times has that great tome nearly ended up through my window, 245 pages and for the first time I've noticed a break in ...

I finished War and Peace one week ago, which was number 200 on my List.

I tackled War and Peace by treating it like a very long extended battle campaign. I watched 2 of the movie versions, listened to a severely abridged BBC audio version, and then started reading. I also (gasp) checked out Sparknotes. So the characters were well understood. I was well trained/prep ...

... the Lottery Tolstoy, Leo. ANNA KARENINA. 1951. 2 volumes. Signed by Barnett Freedman--a wonderful companion to the LEC War and Peace, and I think this time the binding design triumphed, too. Manzoni, Alessandro. THE BETROTHED. 1951. Signed by Bruno Bramanti and Giovanni Mardersteig--great ...

... over the months, I just can't seem to get through The Histories. I don't know what's holding me back. I've done War and Peace. I've bulled through Don Quixote. I got through Ulysses. Hell, I've even read The Bible. It's a fascinating subject, it is just a slog. I'll ...

I may be saying this for a few weeks yet; I'm near the beginning of War and Peace and for something different I'm enjoying Team of Rivals

It's a shame I never found this thread 6 months ago as I've just started War and Peace, well a 100 pages in and still trying to get to grips with all the names :-)

... you Ashe? Loosen up old boy, take a valium. The man in the brown macintosh, could this be a reference to Napoleon? In War and Peace, Tolstoy describes Napoleon on the eve of the Battle of Borodino as 'just a man in a grey raincoat.' In this way he familiarises heroism, debunking the great ...

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Like a good farmer who sows the seeds, cultivates, waters, and patiently waits for the crops to mature, Tolstoy lets his characters develop slowly, giving vivid descriptions of their external and internal lives as they unfold. War and Peace is a true work ...

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Like a good farmer who sows the seeds, cultivates, waters, and patiently waits for the crops to mature, Tolstoy lets his characters develop slowly, giving vivid descriptions of their external and internal lives as they unfold. War and Peace is a true work ...

Tackling War and Peace! My dentist gave it to me out of his waiting room--how's that for irony? About 300 pages in and loving it. (Read Crime and Punishment just before it, and Dostoevsky suffers mightily by the comparison.)

... group read thread. I found the URL on the group page http://www.librarything.com/topic/58966 Having just finished War and Peace, I feel like I just had a full meal and need to let it settle a bit before having another. (Actually I'm waiting to get a hold on the audiobook version of Ann ...

... lets his characters develop slowly, giving vivid descriptions of their external and internal lives as they unfold. War and Peace is a true work of art (according to Tolstoy's own definition in What is Art). He transmits his own feelings strongly to his readers through the characters, ...

... asking if anyone wanted to do a group read of it with me in 2010. I can't handle another group read at the moment, with War and Peace, Don Quixote, and Bleak House. I really want to read AK, but I think I need group support to motivate me. Does that sound good to anyone? Angela

At long last, I was able to finish War and Peace, covering two-thirds of the book over the past week. Joining this thread and being on vacation helped, as otherwise I would not have been so driven. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Has anybody read Anna Karenina? I wonder whether that book is as good ...

... finished all the books I started the week with, apart from Team of Rivals. So in a fit of enthusiasm I thought I'd attack War and Peace for the first time. This may be a problem however as, would you believe it, I may have prolapsed a disc in my neck a couple of days ago. Not from ...

... I liked it, and I am not sure why I stopped. Anything by Piers Anthony Like many others, The Simarilion. War and Peace, but I am gaining on that one!

... are 500+ pagers, but I have to have breaks between them. I just finished Battle Cry of Freedom (850+ pages) and have War and Peace (1000+ pages) going, so now I enjoy a couple quick hits.

... Faulkner or Rushdie. My fav is Anna Karenina, so if you ever find the need to choose a book, give this one a try. :) War and Peace is also enjoyable, but it is longer and has a large number of characters. So I recommend reading AK first. I haven't progressed very far with The Woman in Wh ...

... the rest of the year. This is a good time to tackle some classics - big thick tomes. Right now I'm in the middle of: War and Peace Bleak House Don Quixote As well as: 12 Steps to Raw Foods Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Death of a Gossip Change Your Brain, Change You ...

teelgee, they deserve their reputation! It was an excellent read. I've tried Tolstoy before (War and Peace) but just couldn't get into it, so this was a revelation. (And the notes! So good!)

fyi: Pevear and Volokhonsky - they're a husband-wife team and have a very good rep for translation. The new War and Peace with their translation got rave reviews.

... The day after I submitted my dissertation, I took the largest book I could find and started reading. It was, of course, War and Peace. I enjoyed it immensely, and I think I started reading in a new way from that moment. Even after 9 years I still think back to that book, and I have a ...

I'm into the last 100 pages of American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld and am loving it. I'm also reading War and Peace and The Great Unravelling by Paul Krugman. #1 teelgee and #7 torontc, I really enjoyed My Year of Meats too and will look out for All Over Creation.

I'm reading American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld, and loving it. Am also reading War and Peace, and The Great Unravelling by Paul Krugman. Both are excellent but can't compete with Alice Lindgren and her husband.

Still working on War and Peace, but the end is in sight - I've only got about 350 pages to go. Woohoo! Other than that, I occasionally listen to an audiobook chapter of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat on my drive to work. Surprisingly funny for something written in the late 1800s.

I'm reading War and Peace, and I suspect this'll be my update for July through December! I'm loving it but am only 100 pages in.

... could lead me to the bookshop and a breach of my "no new books ban"! such responsibility... I'm in Moscow in War and Peace, and loving it, but with 1100 pages left. I'll be there for a while. The new translation by Pevear and Volkhonsky is so much better than my Dad's old one ...

War and Peace

My current listen is my longest-15 hours-Just After SunsetStephen King'sstories. I was looking up War and Peacethis morning and was amazed at how many discs it entails. You people are incredible. I don't know how I would handle thirty discs for a book.

... :D Edit to add: I think Zoe has a point about books in Currently Reading being mostly just loooong books. Look at that: War and Peace, Deathly Hallows, The Historian...

... was on sale. I look forward to your review of it... I might bump up Portrait of a Lady... as soon as I've finished War and Peace!

Hi Trish, Yes I'm on here but I am so behind on posts - am trying to catch up but getting into War and Peace isn't helping...I'm probably on page 3 by now. Thanks for the health warning on The Rose of Sebastopol. That's pretty bad about the ending!!

... begin with word entry from OED, word gives small preview of what to expect. 4 stars. Really should be diving into War and Peace, but I am enjoying the progress of moving so many books off the TBR shelf! The next read will either be Inkspell, The Looking Glass Wars, or Book 1 of A S ...

... to writers homes in New England, it's early days, but looks good. And when the long weekend is over I will be starting War and Peace. I'm going to take my time with it and read it as slowly as I need to, so it will probably be mentioned in these threads for quite some time. Sorry.

... the Volumes gathering dust on my shelf are:- War and Peace by Tolstoi Passions of the Mind by Irving Stone Time Enough for Love by ...

Goddamn, I had to look up A Suitable Boy and now I kind of want to read it. As if War and Peace and Infinite Jest in one summer weren't enough... I guess I'll have to take my Indian lit half that size, with A Fine Balance sitting unread on my bookshelf for a little longer...

... overwrought prose I really liked Perdido Street Station and The Scar. Neat ideas at least. Still plugging away at War and Peace, and My Name is Asher Lev is actually starting to get some attention when I can take no more of 30 Russian characters with 5 names each...

... House by Dickens The Brothers Karamozov by Dostoevsky Macbeth Shakespeare Notes From the Underground Dostoevsky War and Peace by Tolstoy Watership Down by Richard Adams Although I guess for the valuable impact they had I think I'd also go for Plato's republic and David Hume's In ...

I'm reading Evelina by Frances Burney and I'm liking it a lot! And as somebody earlier posted, I would like to tackle War and Peace some time, and I am about to start in Odyssea - though that is frightening me for some reason - I'm not sure I will be able to get through it, though I managed I ...

Just finished #24 The Line of Beauty so am going to start War and Peace next for #25. You've scared me with your post Tames, I'm 3 days and 12 chapters behind already to finish by the end of the year!!

... I don't like the typeface... Mostly I seem to be shying away from the really big books on my TBR - David Copperfield, War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov - I'm finding them more daunting as I get older... Happy reading!! Kathy

... me and I've been lending her books left and right, so fair's fair. I got her copy but haven't dug in too deep yet. Also War and Peace... yeah, I intoxicatedly promised another friend I'd read it. Oof. That said, so far the story and characters seem fairly interesting. Can they maintain ...

Thanks Lorie! My reading is going to slow down considerably this month because I am playing catch up on War and Peace. My attention span can not handle more than one book at once! ;) I have a cross-country flight on Thursday, so that should help with W&P.

I WANT to join. I HOPE I will be able to keep up with Don Quixote, War and Peace as well as Bleak House. I'm going to try. :D

... of Death, an H. P. Lovecraft collection - In the Eye of Heaven by David Keck - The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney - War and Peace by Tolstoy (for 80 cents, I couldn't pass it up) - A Feast For Crows by Martin - Star Wars: Rule of Two by Drew Karpyshyn - Star Wars: Patterns of Forc ...

I have reserved this year for a few tomes, it might cut into my other readings, but I WILL finish War and Peace, Don Quixote, The Stand and now Bleak House. This btw will be my first Dickens!

... Works of Shakespeare Norton, with all my notes Collected Poems of Auden not fussy but it must be all the verse War and Peace Bleak House The Pickwick Papers The Double and Notes from Underground bit sneaky, but the two novels are published as one book Gravity's Rainbow ...

Hi! That's really impressive that you're reading War and Peace. My sister has read it, and I really should but haven't. All I've read of Tolstoy is Anna Karenina - which is quite good. Happy reading! Marian

... For some of us, being a teenager ended about 45 minutes ago. For others, including yours truly, as teenagers we read War and Peace in draft form as a favor to the author, and nostalgia has nothing to do with our valuing it and its ilk as "classic." I took rojse to be discouraging us ...

... take you into a different era? When my father was hospitalized, and it was shortly after the 9/11 attacks, I dove into War and Peace. I found it very helpful to be somewhere else entirely.

... it is the one that is the best read for the reader. If the language and syntax of an older version keep you from reading War and Peace, then I feel that it is a bad translation, despite how faithful it may be to the writer's style and despite how keen an insight the translator thinks he has ...

... Orchard by Anton Chekov Red Priests by Edward E. Roslof In Progress: Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi (ahem-- this one is always in progress) Gulag by Anne Applebaum So that's 9, and 3 in progress. Hopefully I'll finish... haha.

... Orchard by Anton Chekov Red Priests by Edward E. Roslof In Progress: Hood by Stephen R. Lawhead War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi (ahem-- this one is always in progress) Gulag by Anne Applebaum So that's 9, and 3 in progress. Hopefully I'll finish... haha.

... what is easy to read on the subway to and from work and am often too tired to read at all once I get home. I have started War and Peace which I found I was enjoying very much without a struggle, except that it is too bulky to carry around and so I have fallen behind! I also have started a ...

... at B&N: mulvaneys-audiobook for my 10 hour round trip ride to Tupelo--$7 Mafia Summer-perfect light, summer read War and Peace Art of War 4 novels by Ernest Hemingway Blue Blood

#254 Congratulations. It took me a little longer than usual to get my B.A. I haven't read Anna Karenina but I did read War and Peace and really enjoyed it. I have put Anna Karenina on my tbr list but it's having a hard time getting to the top. When I finished college with a major in history ...

... Both are fine novels, but to compare them to War and Remembrance would be like comparing The Charterhouse of Parma to War and Peace. Both are first-rate, but there is an enormous difference in the magnitude of their achievement and the aim of the writer. War and Remembrance is not ...

... about halfway done with Gravity's Rainbow, which I am finding much harder work than the other tomes I've read recently (War and Peace and Don Quixote). I am having fun horrifying people by relating the gist of the more extreme sex scenes. In order to preserve my sanity I took a break ...

... It’s set during the Napoleonic Wars (and is perhaps thus a good lighter counterpart to this year’s group read of War and Peace), but in this world there are dragons, manned by aviators, and taken by them into battle. Laurence is a former naval officer who’s now a Captain to one ...

... feel that does not reflect the original. As an aside, I finally got around to reading the Anthony Briggs translation of War and Peace. After the initial shock at seeing the first paragraph (in French in the original) also in English, I'm starting to prefer it to Rosemary Edmonds's version.

... is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. (Tolstoy, War and Peace) It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. (Clausewitz, On War) I know not - am I my ...

... I gave 75 or so pages then gave up. It was interesting, but not engaging. The other book I could never get through was War and Peace. The characters were far too easy to mix up and plus all the social connections to keep track of made it far too tedious to read. Also, I actually really ...

... I gave 75 or so pages then gave up. It was interesting, but not engaging. The other book I could never get through was War and Peace. The characters were far too easy to mix up and plus all the social connections to keep track of made it far too tedious to read. Also, I actually really ...

#49 I'm reading War and Peace for number 25. That should see me to the end of 2009! #50 It really was. It was referred to a lot when I studied sociology in school in the 80s, so when it came into the shop I had to pick it up. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll add them to my wishlist.

... - the effect of expanding it to 6 volumes will be to make it a lot more expensive. In the past blockbusters like War and Peace, Les Miserables and The Decameron have appeared in either single volume or two volume FS editions - I think some of these new proposed titles are ...

Yup - I have these plus War and Peace, Don Quixote and Ulysses all in a similar format. Normally Moby Dick wouldn't really be long enough to join the series - I guess that's why it comes with a substantial commentary volume. I'm really looking forward to this - I just l*o*v*e Moby Dick. I ...

... Pevear and Volokhonsky (1997) version is also quite good and I have enjoyed many of their other Russian translations like War and Peace and Anna Karenina and currently reading Brothers Karamazov. When are we voting or nominating?

... You Meet in Heaven (too many other more pressing things need to be read first). But I've been meaning to get around to War and Peace forever. Maybe next winter . . .

... on topic. I always attempt the 50 book challenge, but tend to bog down on one or two books during the year. The Bible and War and Peace really kicked my butt. This year it's Ulysses. That is a challenge on its own and I'm only a third through. It's like Mrs. Dalloway on acid.

... Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Well, I haven't finished a book in a while! I am currently reading The Forsyte Saga, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Stand, Don Quixote and starting The Story of Edgar Sawtelle and Till We Have Faces. Clearly, part of the reason that I am so ...

War and Peace David Copperfield Forsyte Saga The Idiot Far Pavillions Gone with the Wind The Little Prince The Harry Potter series -only if read by Jim Dale

... Sermons of John Donne ed. Gill (I) Voices of Morebath - Eamon Duffy (II) Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (III) War and Peace - Tolstoy (VII) The Mind Readers - Margery Allingham (VI) Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare (VII)

... genius. Thanks for getting that stuck in my head, mckait! W/ a whopping 40% coupon and some Borders bucks I brought home War and Peace and The House of the Dead, prompting the sales clerk to say "Big fan of Russian literature, eh?". I'm sorry to say I glared at him; it was a very cranky ...

... the Austens and the McEwan. And I've also read the dickens. Would like to read Anna Karenina - like anna I've only read War and Peace.

... read some of their Tolstoy & Doestoy trans., which, in my non-expert opinion, read as good as any, especially their recent War and Peace edition. What say you, tomcat, about Pevear & Volokhonsky? Good, bad, adequate. Who do you read? Now we need to set a start date. How does beginning ...

Think these have not been listed before: "Portrait of A Lady" "Bleak House" Oliver War and Peace War and Remembrance" "At the Going Down of the Sun" (TV movie) "Sybil" by Flora Rheta Schreiber(TV Movie) "Contact" "Children of Men" The Woman in White Band of Brother ...

... of history carry on their strong backs.' I believe that is a rather poetic restatement of the Leo Tolstoy position in War and Peace. Leo was a bit more long winded.

... . Hi Bonniebooks!~~! **waving madly** And --BJ, as far as our earlier conversation on my thread goes, anyone who can read War and Peace, Anna Karinina, The Brothers Karamazov, A Raisin in the Sun, Don Quixote, Bleak House among others is certainly what I would consider well read. Hel ...

... liked the story about how he asked a librarian to find another story "just like this one." Fantasy didn't work, but War and Peace did (I can only wonder how she came up with that - did she make a connection between the stories, or was she just frustrated?). 4.5 stars.

... liked the story about how he asked a librarian to find another story "just like this one." Fantasy didn't work, but War and Peace did (I can only wonder how she came up with that - did she make a connection between the stories, or was she just frustrated?). 4.5 stars.

Yeah, I kinda agree with 3. Forget Twilight; how's about War and Peace? That vapid French girl at the Bolkonski estate was really hot and sexy. So was Anna Karenina. Madame Bovary, er, not so much... :)

... than what is currently in your library, based on a brief peek. I too, love anything by Basbanes. I loved War and Peace and because I don't give a damn about spoilers I really immersed myself in it. It was a multi-media attack: a couple movies, an abridged audio, etc. I ...

... ore… 30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today? 31) What is your desert island book?I’ll take War and Peace – it does a wonderful job of creating a world to get lost in… 32) And... what are you reading right now?Manipulative monkeys : the capuchins of ...

... book you've read as an adult? The Devil in the Junior League 15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? War and Peace 16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? Taming of the Shrew 17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? I have an obsession with ...

... cabal | . . . Bird Skin Coat | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Loved One, A Handful of Dust | . . . War and Peace, broad-hipped Natalya, historicity | . . . . . . Russian Thinkers v-Notes from Underground | . . . The Icon and the Axe v-We (Modern . . .), Notes ...

... thinks we have in common and at your first two hundred books sorted by author. I recommend from first to third choice: War and Peace. It is the most serious book of the lot and will teach you more than practically any other single book in the list. Also I think you look like one of the ...

... to 1995?) 15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? The original, unabridged English translation of War and Peace. My copy was printed in 1942, in 10 pt typeface...however, has the neatest readers guide and bookmark with all sorts of reference information, including maps. ...

... copies of? I don't know, but it is probably one that I purposefully bought various copies of, like Paradise Lost or War and Peace 3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? It didn't bother me; it caught my eye. If I had written the questions, I would ...

... copies of? I don't know, but it is probably one that I purposefully bought various copies of, like Paradise Lost or War and Peace 3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? It didn't bother me; it caught my eye. If I had written the questions, I would ...

... copies of? I don't know, but it is probably one that I purposefully bought various copies of, like Paradise Lost or War and Peace 3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions? It didn't bother me; it caught my eye. If I had written the questions, I would ...

... I find to difficult I usually don't finish like Moby Dick, but I did struggle through both Anna Karenia and War and Peace but I am glad that I finished them. 16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? Not a big Shakespeare ...

... often had thoughts along those lines myself, and it sounds funny. 15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? War and Peace dull dull dull and I never finished. 16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? n/a 17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? for ...

... 32) And... what are you reading right now? The Gargoyle, The Adventures of Sally, Pillars of the Earth, War and Peace, Holiness, The Voices of Morebath, Selected Sermons of John Donne and probably half a dozen more that I've left somewhere with a bookmark in and ...

... had thoughts along those lines myself, and it sounds funny. 15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read? War and Peace dull dull dull and I never finished. 16) What is the most obscure Shakespeare play you've seen? n/a 17) Do you prefer the French or the Russians? for ...

... watched the movie) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (I watched the movie) 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (I did watch the movie though) 27 Crime ...

... dread of literature. When I go on holiday, I read first the thrillers, then the sci-fi, then the instructional books, then War and Peace, or whatever book it is I know I ought to read, ought to have read, half want to read and only when reading want to fully. Of course one dreads it: of ...

... yourself you'll read, but you probably won't? The Satanic Verses 5. Which book are you saving for "retirement?" War and Peace 6. Last page: read it first or wait til the end? Leave til the end, unless you can't be bothered to read the whole book and you need to just know what ...

... Wind - Margaret Mitchell *22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - ...

... equally likely candidates for the list. This is heavily weighted towards books I've read in the past several years. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann Cold Comfort Farm by St ...

... Don't know how many different editions Laura has in her possession. I also believe I recognize the Pevear translation of War and Peace, no?

... I think I have 4 or 5 of his on hold at the library now. I am very excited to begin Crime and Punishment. I have tried War and Peace and didn't complete it so I'm hoping I will have a different mindset going into it this time. And I am going to spread these larger reads out over the next ...

... I think I have 4 or 5 of his on hold at the library now. I am very excited to begin Crime and Punishment. I have tried War and Peace before so I'm hoping I will have a different mindset going into it this time. Anna Karinina; I am just loving and can't wait for the 15th to arrive so I ...

... thread Nannybebette! You've got a great list of books going this year! Of the books you mentioned in post 77, I have read War and Peace and Crime and Punishment - very different but I liked them both. I'm hoping to read Anna Karenina this year too, so I look forward to your opinions of it. ...

Hi Susanj - thanks for stopping by my thread! It's great to hear from others who have read War and Peace recently. Like you said, it is an amazing book, and I'm glad to be able to cross it off my list ;) You mentioned that you read Into the Wilderness; I highly recommend continuing the ...

... in the Rye - JD Salinger 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Reading Now 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 3 ...

... The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodo ...

... With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell *22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy *25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (MM is currently reading for April)

I am enjoying Anna Karinina, but I have been working on my TBR listing and am going to include Tolstoy's War and Peace. Homers The Odyssey and The Iliad and Dostroyevsy's Crime and Punishment and Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Those are my personal challenges this year ...

The Hedgehog and The Fox is an interesting book on Tolstoy's theory of history. It is based upon an analysis of War and Peace. The title comes from a line from a Greek poet Archilochus. "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing" According to the author Tolstoy ...

... adds a lot of interest. the author actually does a pretty good job reading his own work too. other elusive creatures: war and peace by tolstoy, the road by cormac mccarthy

... it's a relief to hear that even a college professor recognized that the war parts are less engaging. I'm glad to have read War and Peace in its entirety, but whenever I decide to go back and reread it, I'll definitely skip the history lessons and focus on the characters. Blondierocket, I ...

I'm currently reading The Sunne in Splendour for my historical fiction category, and War and Peace for my chunksters category.

I guess what interests me are Tolstoy's own views on the subject. It's been a very long time since I read War and Peace, but if I remember correctly, he essentially rejected the "great man" view of history in favor of seeing events as sort of inevitable based on the mass of people and their will-- ...

... into the book, I am also finding it to be a nice easy flow of a story. Sounds very promising. On another note, I read War and Peace last year as my big goal. You completed it quicker than I did. It took me 3 months, but it's such an accomplishment. Congratulations.

... Gaarder Peru - The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder Poland - Nostromo Joseph Conrad Russia - War and Peace Leo Tolstoy (Yes, really read it one summer in graduate school when I was supposed to be studying other things) Scotland – The Complete Works of Robert ...

OK everyone, fess up: it's April 1st . . . where in War and Peace are you? Dum de dum dum

I just finished the third one. They aren't as bad as I wanted them to be. Now don't get me wrong, they aren't War and Peace but then they aren't supposed to be. I hear the fourth book is the best.

... Sermons of John Donne ed. Gill (I) Voices of Morebath - Eamon Duffy (II) Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (III) War and Peace - Tolstoy (VII) Great Expectations - Dickens (VII) Inferno - Dante (VII) The Sweetheart Season - Karen Joy Fowler (IX) The Gargoyle - Andrew Davids ...

War and Peace not thru the entire book, but a few sections The Time Traveler's wife A lot, especially the end Mrs. Mike "" " Possession In places The God of Small Things Animal Dreams & The Poisonwood Bible There's probably more = I cry easy.

War and Peace not thru the entire book, but a few sections The Time Traveler's wife A lot, especially the end Mrs. Mike "" " Possession In places The God of Small Things Animal Dreams & The Poisonwood Bible There's probably more = I cry easy.

Thanks for stopping by my thread with your kind words TracieG. I just posted my thoughts on War and Peace there. I'm glad you liked the Twilight books too. I think it's great that you read them at the same time as your daughter. It says a lot about these books that teenagers and adults alike ...

... book for the last time and slide it back onto the shelf. I honestly don't have the intellectual prowess to actually review War and Peace, but here's my 2 cents... I absolutely loved the characters - Pierre, Andrei, Natasha, Nikolai, and Marya - they were so real and full of life. Each ...

Naxos sell an unabridged recording of War and Peace, which runs to 51 discs, and a 39 disc abridgement of A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. I wonder how many discs an unabridged recording of that would run to!

... would love to have the kind of time to just immerse myself in the great books. I liked this one a lot -- even better than War and Peace, but Dr. Zhivago is still my No. 1 Russian book. Maybe influenced by the movie? I'm going to experiment here with my new ticker. I'm having trouble ...

CONGRATULATIONS, waterLILY!!!! You deserve a huge pat on the back. War and Peace has been on my list since I was 17.....you've nudged me one step closer to actually doing it.

6. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ....What do I say? I think I'll need a few days to digest before I can think straight, let alone write a coherent response other than "it was good, very very good." ...

... book. I certainly haven't read Proust or Hemingway, but I was pushed through 1984 at school, and I dragged myself through War and Peace. I got two pages into Finnegan's Wake and haven't attempted Ulysses. I read The Selfish Gene at college (and The Double Helix), but I haven't read A B ...

I love War and Peace and I loved the new Pevear-Volokhonsky translation (this was the third time I read W&P!).

... group again). At the bookstore we have a customer who counts Bleak House as one of his two favorite books in the world (War and Peace being the other, in case you're interested to know) who is quite disappointed that although I own his favorite books, I haven't read them yet. I also own H ...

... Toilers of the Sea? I've always been curious) or Sentimental Education. I was thinking of the recent translation of War and Peace or the Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote, which I've never read. Anybody have any suggestions?

... too, but not until I finish Anna Karenina which is a private reading project. (I did suggest it here, but I think after War and Peace, no one was interested in another Tolstoy for a while. Which is perfectly fair enough. :)

... what I am used to doing. Hopefully, I can catch up on some reading! Up next, The Jane Austen Book Club catch up on War and Peace The Book Thief

I'd like to read War and Peace sometime before I die. I have a copy, but I know that once I start it, that's it for reading anything else for months!

War and Peace, Middlemarch, Kristin Lavransdatter, The Forsyte Sagaand, like Ganeshaka, Dickens, Dickens, Dickens, and Dickens!

... to this read as the last time I picked Tolstoy up, I put him down 1/4 of the way through the book. That time it was War and Peace and I haven't read "Anna" through since I was in my 30s. And bonniebooks, I am enjoying Kalpakian. This is my first of hers and I would imagine she is ...

... I made sure I finish the backlog of posts, I am a bit behind on my reading too, haven't been able to finish my assigned War and Peace reading for this month.

Finished with this month's Don Quixote some days back but am still behind schedule with War and Peace, last few hours to go frantically starts reading

Some of my favorite long books: Middlemarch by George Eliot War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am thoroughly enjoying both Don Quixote and War and Peace, which comes as a great surprise to me. I am hoping that the groups can both finish the respective books by December. I am glad to be reading the books this way - it spurs me to keep going!

... catch up in the next month. Unfortunately, I find that by the time I get home from school and do all my reading for class, War and Peace is just not so tempting...

Haven't gotten around to reading much of War and Peace this month, nearly half of the assigned reading for this month still left for me, will have to boost it up in the next couple of days.

... know, Susan - I wanted to read less this year, too, and I don't think it's happening so far... Like I said before, perhaps War and Peace will slow me down a bit!! :D

... to read them any more - the ones mentioned above, and Shakespeare, I promessi sposi, Werther, Les fleurs de mal, War and Peace, etc. ... Or the things that made a big impact on you when you first read them as a teenager but you'd never want to re-read (varies according to ...

Hello! As the aforementioned Marcia, I shall be joining in. Hopefully it will go better than my group read of War and Peace, which I've just about decided might be too much while college is in session. I'm hoping The Stand will be a little less challenging. I've never really read any Stephen Kin ...

... have got cliff-hangers, haven't they? But TFS describes families and intrigues (soap opera like, imo.), etc. etc, and so do War an Peace and Middlemarch (which are the only two of the five in message 1 I've read), but I'll not define W&P and Middlemarch as soap operas. I'm not sure why. Somethi ...

... heart. Also, (I hardly need to tell you this, Talbin) some of the greatest canonical literature is historical fiction: War and Peace, A Tale of Two Cities, even Middlemarch, it can conceivably be argued, is historical fiction as Eliot consciously set it in 1832, 40 years before the ...

alright, off to a better start this year. I am going to count war and peace again this year, then there was jungle capitalists, a sense of the world, the kite runner and the great war.

#195: Carolyn, we are doing it here in the 75 Books Challenge group, just like we are doing War and Peace and Don Quixote. We plan to start June 15th.

I really love Anna Karenina as well, jhedlund. Have you read War and Peace? I didn't like it as much but it was good as well, gives you a pretty good idea of how one can play with scales. I've just finished Me and Orson Welles by Robert Kaplow, it wasn't nearly as good as I was hoping it ...

OOH! I'd love to join, but...I don't know if I can handle this along with War and Peace and Don Quixote. I'll have to think about it! So, SO many thick classics that I haven't read yet, sigh...

I'm saying that after War and Peace you won't be afraid to take on Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake because of their bulk. You may not wish to read them for other reasons, but length will be a less daunting reason than it might have been.

Part of the genius of this group was starting with War and Peace. If one can read that one, one can read anything of quality. We've read Middlemarch, over 850 pages, Bleak House over 800 pages, Our Mutual Friend over 900 pages, and recently some shorter to short works. The longer ones ...

... because the only book I've been through with you folks is The Leopard, a short book. People were talking about reading War and Peace in another group. They agreed to lend each other support and formed this group for it. The challenge was the length of the book. There are lots of ...

... of literature that you know you should read, but want some moral support in doing so. Hence the first several picks - War and Peace, Middlemarch, what have you. Since then we have mainly stuck to the classics, but they are not always necessarily long and daunting ones.

... pyjamas? The dog's...well, you get the picture. Let's face it; you're a bit of a literature nerd. You probably read War and Peace in one sitting and followed it up with Ulysses just for fun. You can name all the characters in every Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel and have never read ...

... literary quality (I guess you'll notice if there's no such quality), and much more that count. Middlemarch and War and Peace are GREAT books, and there are lots of "short" great novels too: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, My Antonia, Animal Farm, Pan, Orla ...

... accomplishment when I get to update mine. I'm glad to hear that you loved Anna Karenina - I'm looking forward to it. War and Peace is good so far, but is slow going. Knowing that people on LT are expecting me to finish and share my thoughts helps me keep going. I read the Twilight ...

Reading Emma by Jane Austen. My second Austen. So far preferring it to Pride and Prejudice. Which I loved. Also War and Peace for 75 book challenge group read. Started off fast, now slowing down, due mainly to the physical bulk of the book.

Reading Emma by Jane Austen. My second Austen. So far preferring it to Pride and Prejudice. Also War and Peace for 75 book challenge group read. Started off fast, now slowing down, due mainly to the physical bulk of the book.

... this group right now, but maybe somewhere down the line when I do not have quite so much on my plate (including both War and Peace and Don Quixote).

A bunch of people expressed an interest in reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina this year, so I am copying the War and Peace gang and starting a thread for us! I thought we could take it slow and read about 100 pages a month; when I looked through my copy, I realized that it is split into eight ...

... and enjoy Anna Karenina during my senior year of high school. I think that I would get more out of it now. I may tackle War and Peace in 2010 as a year-long goal. The new translation sounds promising. I have a two-volume version sitting on my shelves that has some 60s looking cover art - ...

... lot of the books you mention are ones I've liked or want to read. One of my goals since high school has been to: "read War and Peace before I die". I'm almost loath to do it now with the superstition that I'll kick the bucket as soon as I finish! ;-) I've starred your thread and look ...

March book club selections: Katherine by Anya Seton (Someday BC selection) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (continuing RGG side read) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (continuing RGG side read) The Terror by Dan Simmons (RGG side read) The Stone Diaries by ...

... books to borrow. I love the idea of a family library! I must confess that I've been lurking on the 75ers group read of War and Peace - it's nice to know I'm not the only one who needs to read it slowly! But I haven't yet acquired the skill of reading multiple books simultaneously, so I'm ...

... comments about it, and I can borrow it from my daughter. (I need to remind her that I need the book!) I am also reading War and Peace slowly with a reading group in the 75 book challenge. We are reading around 100 to 150 pages a month. You are probably ahead of us already. I just love the ...

... every time I added a new book. Stalled but not abandoned The Hidden - Tobias Hill (no touchstone) War and Peace - Tolstoy, Pevear & Volokhonsky translation Get it Done When You're Depressed - Julie Fast Energize Your Life - Dwight Carlson (no touchstone, on TT's ...

... I'm going to like the narrator's personality. Unfortunately, I've promised not to make any more orders until I finish War and Peace, and considering I'm not even halfway through, it'll be awhile. I really should stop procrastinating on LT and start reading!

... I've decided to plunge into a lengthy classic (which are the best kinds of classics, of course). So currently I am reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. And I have been reading it for at least 3 weeks now. It's not as difficult to read as I feared it would be, but it's still very slow going. ...

... near as toffee-nosed as some other lists, but here' goes: The Illiad Don Quixote Candide Fathers and Sons War and Peace The Sound and the Fury The Master and Margarita Anna Karenina Lolita A Confederacy of Dunces Of course Rivethead and Pissing in the Snow ...

War and Peace? Not a series. The Great Gatsby? Not a series. Ulysses? Not a series. Jane Eyre? Not a series. Hey, they could be right. ...oh wait, i forgot. Harry Potter.

... Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms Netherlands: Tracy Chevalier - Girl with a Pearl Earring Russia: Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace UK: Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Vatican City: Dan Brown - Angels and Demons

... are so many things I want to read, but the large tomes are the ones I find weigh on my mind. Remeberance of Things Past, War and Peace, The Bible, etc. My friend has a theory about Ulysses - he is waiting to read it until the end of his life so that he might catch 1/4 of the references. ...

Mmm... I have Tolstoy's War and Peace lying around... Actually, most of the Penguin classics I have lying around fall under the answer to your question... Mostly they're also books I'm interested in reading, though. I just haven't got around to them. I'm considering/semi-planning making March a Pe ...

... currently does not seem to include much fiction: Speak, Memory 100 Years of Solitude The Upanishads The Sufis War and Peace Lives of a Cell Children's book top five: The Little Prince The Hobbit The Tomten A Little Princess the Merry Adventures of Robin Hood ...

A couple of test cases for the splitters: NCE of War and Peace: 1073 pages of text followed by 110 pages of commentary. Modern Library edition of Les Miserables: 1194 pages of text followed by 136 pages of endnotes. Split both? Just the first?

... rather hoped they would use Palmer's illustrations. However, the 1974 edition's format would be much smaller than those of War and Peace, Ulysses and Don Quixote so I suspect it will be reset in a larger format and have new illusatrations. I would be unhappy if they simply scaled up the ...

... of YA "trash", things would be going better. But we all go through different reading cycles & not everything has to be War and Peace, which is still languishing on Mt. TBR.

... Minnow Pea brought chuckles and made me shift it further up the list. I gather you're also embarking on the great War and Peace challenge in 2009, and look forward to seeing you there in the near future. (Off to finish the last few chapters of this month's reading now, I hope.)

... really hate to say this, but I think that that would be necessary. I never had trouble keeping track of the characters in War and Peace after about the first 50 pages, but I had such a terrible time with this series that at one point I started making out a genealogy list. I had to abandon it ...

... a little cheesy to include a graphic novel as one of my 75, but I don't read many of them and it'll help balance out with War and Peace.

... falls apart, at least for me. That being said, as a writer of fiction he is a giant, perhaps in spite of himself. In War and Peace he does recover a kind of truth, because he's writing fiction, a nice paradox that would probably have had the old man fuming. Dostoevsky, on the other hand, ...

... Resurrection, and will not choose that one to read! I too read Anna Karenina and enjoyed it. Maybe I'll have to tackle War and Peace this year, but I think I'll try and get a good few titles read first! Like you, I'm not the fastest of readers; I read 51 last year, but I can't imagine doing ...

Thanks, Paola, for your recommendations. Last year I read about 250 pages of War and Peace, so I think I've gotten through the hard part - learning the cast of characters and all those Russian names! I even took Russian in college, but it doesn't help much when each character has between 2-5 ...

I read The First Man in Rome, The Quincunx, The Sunne in Splendour, and War and Peace. I liked them all, in different ways. Joyce, I have to partially disagree with you. I think that the first three books in the Rome series are fine, actually quite good, but once I got to the fourth, I ...

... home, too: Lonesome Dove, The Sunne in Splendour, The First Man in Rome, Katherine, The Quincunx. Plus, I started War and Peace last year and would like to get back to it one day. I think each of these comes in at close to 1,000 pages.

... I'm moving rather more quickly through my third book of the year, so hopefully I can make up for lost time. I bought War and Peace not long ago and am looking forward to tackling it later on in the year. I'm also going to look out for more by Joan Didion and would be happy ...

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Still chugging through War and Peace although I probably won't finish this year... jillmwo in The Green Dragon : Book Bucket List (Feb 9, 2009, 7:34pm)

Sad confession. I have not yet read War and Peace all the way through, although I tried when I was in high school. Beginning to doubt it will ever happen.

Whew, finally finished War and Peace. It took me almost a month to read (I swear a full half the time I was reading the epilogue). I enjoyed it for about 1,100 pages, but the end was a torture. To shake off the giant tome blues, I then read The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which was also an ...

... Dick by Herman Melville, The Odyssey by Homer, The old Testament by "God et. al", Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, War and Peace by Tolstoy, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. This is not an academic look at these works but a refreshingly personal discussion of each of the ...

... to what I enjoy, I think this takes the pressure off and I can even enjoy the books I've struggled with in the past, like war and peace :)

reading: At this instant—LT. ;-) In general, Among Schoolchildren, War and Peace and Just Being at the Piano. Listening to Sharpe's Trafalgar. eating: Just finished dinner of pasta with asparagus, tomatoes, and sausage. drinking: Tropicana Orange-Pineapple juice talking ...

War and Peace. I'm serious as a tumor. Great book.

... is, "to be finished". The ones that get me are the real.....long..... ones. The Bible was a tough read, harder than War and Peace. Right now after a year and a half, I'm still only half done with ol' Herodotus.

... read it in five-minute chunks, and you must be ready for some mental gymnastics. Great stuff!! I still haven't read War and Peace and I've been thinking about tackling it, but first I have to finish my current Early Reviewer book, and then the Gene Wolfe books I'm reading for another ...

... Well, I've still got several bookcases of books which I haven't read, so maybe not. I really want to finish Shakespeare, War and Peace and Crime and Punishment, but I'm in no hurry.

Do you have books you want to read, before it is, um... too late? What are they? The one at the top of mine is War and Peace.

I just finished War and Peace! How about Midaq Alley (from the new list)? I feel like I've said it before but it doesn't seem to be on the list.

I have read A Dance to the Music of Time. Has anyone read War and Peace? --BJ

... Time to head somewhere warmer. Like Nigeria! (oh, and Russia while I do my penance read 97 pages of War and Peace. Just kidding about the penance. The first 3 pages were excellent!)

Nancy I'm starting it soon! (as soon as I've read my 100 pages of War and Peace...)

... the living room lamplight, to read, I fall soundly asleep after two or three pages! I admire those of you who are tackling War and Peace. Could you imagine how long that would take me? I do have a copy sitting on my shelf....I'm thinking it will be my first retirement project.

Whew! It didn't take long for your new thread to reach almost 100 posts! Btw, I've read War and Peace, and I think your thread is a much easier (and fun) read. I wanted to comment on some of the books you were planning to read, but I've forgotten them with all the interesting talk. :-) I will ...

... or poems or plays that are a major part of modern culture, but I still don't feel I'm missing anything by not having read War and Peace. I may be wrong, of course, and some time I may change my mind and want to read it. But if I die without reading it, I'm still OK with that.

... which were nonfiction, so I am on target for my 150 nonfiction reads this year. I have also started both Don Quixote and War and Peace for my group reads, and Vietnam: A History toward my personal reading goal for the year.

... to this group was the fact they weren't afraid to take on a thousand page behemoth. How long did it take most here to read War and Peace at the outset? I believe it was several months. It is time to settle on a new book, but let's not get in a rush.

I think I'm going to tackle War and Peace this week. I'm in need of something involved so I can get completely lost in the book.

You could always do a 'Group Read' similar to the ones already in train for War and Peace and Don Quixote. There might be others who would join in if invited . . .

... nice and slow, so I probably wouldn't admit defeat for a long time. I must admit that I did like Anna Karenina more than War and Peace, but I wanted to reread so I could remember it. Thanks for the recommendation. :) --BJ

... Joseph and his Brothers. It may just be the longest book I have ever read. I can think of a few others with more pages (War and Peace, Les Miserables, perhaps even The Lord of the Rings), but, given the tiny print, Mann's book may just take it. I have written a fair bit already in ...

I'm reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The Lost Traveller by Antonia White, and War and Peace very slowly... (edited for not-enough-coffee-typos)

... Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, the first Archipelago Books release of 2009. After that, I'll be visiting Russia, starting with War and Peace for a group theme read (~100 pp/month), and Poor Folk and The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky for the Author Theme read.

... reading pace I think I will be able to make it! A whole year for this book is ok with me. It's a threat that there is a War and Peace topic as well, but I don't want to read both at the same time. Maybe next year...

Fingersmith, War and Peace, and soon to start My Antonia.

... Medicine group for the time being. I think I'll be too busy with my Author Theme Read, Reading Globally, and Book Theme (War and Peace) projects.

War and Peace - wow. I'm having enough with thinking I should tackle another Faulkner. I do own a copy of Anna Karenina but the one time I tried to read it, I got lost in the Russian names, but maybe now is a good time to go back and try again - I have matured in my reading choices!

Hi BJ!!! Wow, talk about brave - War and Peace is bad enough length-wise but to add the other two on top... my hat's off to you (I have W&P and The Brothers Karamazov on the TBR - they could both fit in my 999 challenge under either "in translation" or "books I've been avoiding" : if I ...

... to read it for a while. But, I started with a super-short book this year. Now I am reading several really long books -- War and Peace and Don Quixote and The Brothers Karamazov. I probably won't finish all of them! :) I think I will want to read some short books inbetween. The first ...

February book club selections: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (the SIGR book club selection) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (a continuing RGG side read) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstory (a continuing RGG side read) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (RGG side read) Patty J ...

... read Anna Karenina by him, which I loved and which is rather different. I suppose there's a reason why that and War and Peace are so well known compared to his other works...

I've started to read War and Peace but I haven't read Eat Pray Love.

Finished A Mercy by Toni Morrison and am now reading Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and War and Peace.

... :) I have just picked up Wide Sargasso Sea which I thought I would slot in, before going back to my Group read of War and Peace. Then it's on to Ashenden and Cat's Eye per message 85. See how easlily I am side tracked by recommendations! - TT

... by Robert Louis Stevenson. I am still in the middle of His Excellency George Washington and at the beginning of War and Peace. My daughter has a ton of Gaiman books that I can borrow. Right now she is in Buffalo, NY hoping to fly home to Oklahoma. However, we have had a winter ...

... weather during the first half of the book, so I took a break. Once I felt better, I enjoyed the book more. Now back to War and Peace.

... and Punishment by Dostoevsky. I never really had the guts to start on the Russian classics--I once started reading War and Peace, but gave up within twenty pages. This time I was encouraged by the movie Match Point. I'm not sure yet what the exact link is between the movie and the book, ...

... can prove a bit more challenging, but that should be addressed on a case by case basis according to conscience ;) I read War and Peace last year = one book. In general, and regarding your specific examples, I could only justify the count of a single book no matter its length --- just make ...

I'd be interesting in attempting The Stand. I haven't read much King. I'm going pretty slowly on War and Peace. I'm only a few chapters in and I keep getting distracted (mostly by classes). I just finished my winter session class which was extremely hectic (three weeks for Poe, Hawthorne's ...

... great book when I read it and even though it looks big and daunting it's not believe me, it's very easy to read, a bit like war and peace which has surprised me. i guess I shouldn't be put off by a book's size or reputation ... also of course there is the TV mini series as well for the stand ...

Thanks lilisin (#18). It is a very readable translation (I once got bogged down in a dull translation of War and Peace so I'm somewhat sensitive to potential translation issues now.) I forgot to say that I wasn't actually 100% convinced by Goriot's backstory. Not that it wasn't a good story, ...

Since War and Peace is going so well for me I decided to try this challenge as well. I think Don Quixote is going to make me laugh at some point - it's already made me smile a few times!! I thought the satire would go over my head, and I'm sure I'm missing some of it, but I'm understanding ...

... Room No. 1 - Richard Fortey The Sermons of John Donne ed. Gill (999/I) Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (999/III) War and Peace - Tolstoy (999/VII) Holiness - J C Ryle (999/I) Decent Exposure - Phillipa Ashley Dark Fire - CJ Sansom (999/VI) Voices of Morebath Eamon Duffy (99 ...

... the impetus behind their writing. I thought the the authors made some interesting choices of books to discuss ranging from War and Peace to Hollywood Wives. There is even a section for nonfiction works. Now for a light read to clear my brain.

I started reading War and Peace but I didn't finish it...

I've read Anna Karenina but not War and Peace. (Weird, I know.)

I'm reading A Mercy by Toni Morrison and am just barely beginning War and Peace for a group read.

I need to read War and Peace but not yet. I have read Don Quixote and loved it.

I've begun War and Peace but er...it was putting me to sleep so I came here instead. Oh the shame.

FYI, There are two group reads going on in the 75 book Challenge group -- one for War and Peace (which this group has already done) and one for Don Quixote. These groups have just started and are going to take a slow schedule with the first deadline of 2/15. I am sorry that I don't know how ...

... of her. But I loved The Brothers Karamazov. I think I would get mixed up if I was also reading Anna Karenina and War and Peace!

... older and rounder characters 35 Rumplestiltskin In between class readings I'll be sneaking time to read War and Peace along with the group and Somewhere in America: Under the Radar with Chicken Warriors, Left-Wing Patriots, Angry Nudists, and Others. So far, both are ...

... I'm going to have to revise my ticker to 125 or 150 books, because it doesn't look like I'm going to read less. Maybe War and Peace will slow me down!! (By the way, I did print out a character list, which I think will really help) I wanted to take some of my reading time and use it to ...

... does it matter, at this level, whether the subject is addressed in a novel, or an academic treatise. For example, consider War and Peace. It is (mostly) a novel, and therefore maybe it ought to go in fiction. But if you want to know about the history of the time then it's an important book to ...

I am starting War and Peace tonight. My daughter and I were discussing how although we have both read it, we cannot remember it. Then I said, "I remember the scene where . . ." And she said, "No, that was Anna Karenina." Then I said, "What about the scene where . . ." She said, "That also ...

I am starting both War and Peace and Don Quixote this month. But I am planning to take it slowly. :) Wish me luck! --BJ

... seemed slower than others and I found my mind wandering to other things instead of what was written. I consider it like War and Peace. Just push on through and you feel good at the end. >29 I found it online and so whenever I had downtime at work I would read. Since things have been slow I ...

... Angela 14 books read already this year--very impressive! You'll give alcottacre a run for her money! I hope you enjoy War and Peace--I loved it when I read it years ago. I hope to reread it next year. I don't remember very many times I laughed out loud, though. I do have a ...

Wow, Stasia, another great (and huge) week's worth of reads! I'm adding several to my wishlist. I started War and Peace but don't think I could handle Don Quixote at the same time. I can't wait til summer when we get to Bleak House!

... mysteries that had humor thrown in, and of course classics like Jane Austen novels make me laugh, but I'm not sure that War and Peace is going to make me laugh. If anyone finds any laughable passages, I hope they point them out on the group thread! :D

... want to work out, and she makes me want to write a book of my own! On a humorous side note, I started the group read of War and Peace while simultaneously reading Such a Pretty Fat. My poor husband was confused because I was laughing out loud while reading. He said "I never knew War and P ...

#315: The translation of War and Peace I am reading has a handy chart of all the principal characters at the front. Certainly makes it easier to know who is who!

You are concurrently reading Don Quixote and War and Peace? Wow. Your reading impressed me before but this takes it to a whole new level. It took me three months to read Quixote (I took a couple breaks). Haven't tried that particular Tolstoy yet - it intimidates me, not so much because of ...

... series A little bit of everything this week, just the way I like it! I have also started both Don Quixote and War and Peace and figure it will be December before I have them recorded here, lol.

I finished Pere Goriot and am starting War and Peace and Don Quixote. I'll be taking those slowly and might read another short one in between. --BJ

>60-63: Yes, we will have a separate thread for Anna Karenina, just like the ones created for War and Peace and Don Quixote - my, aren't we choosing ambitious novels! :) We can create it as we get closer to starting. I agree with starting around Easter, so that's April this year, right? I ...

... Kafka The Interrogation by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio: his first novel, which has recently been reissued War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: the new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, which several of us 75ers will be reading this year The Breakthrou ...

I am not sure if I can read Anna Karenina and War and Peace at the same time, but I might try. Both books are rereads for me, so maybe I can do it. And I already have a copy of both. AK is one of my all-time favorite books ever! Thanks for the invite and the info. I will look for the ...

... my brother bought me for my birthday; the size has been deterring me from picking it up, but as I'm about to embark on War and Peace in the group read I figure the in-pieces approach could work here too.

... the 75 Books Challenge and other group theme reads will be helpful in achieving this goal. I’ll be participating in the War and Peace theme read starting this month, as a start. I’d also like to read more Faulkner, Hemingway, Joyce, Dostoyevsky, and de Beauvoir in the next couple of years. ...

... yet heroic and somehow beautfiul. I'll start The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso Yáñez today, and War and Peace for the 75 Books Challenge theme read later this week. I'm also still reading Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine by Jon ...

... Also re-reading The Trial, working my way through Keep the aspidistra flying and The name of the rose. Audiobooking war and peace also. Am determined to knock off a few this year.....

Just joined today and not sure of books I will read yet. But, I suspect that old favourite War and Peace may be a bit of a challenge. I'm reading it for a group read over in the 75 books challenge group. Though lots of people who have read it say it is surprisingly easy to read. I'm hopeless ...

... especially for those (like me) who can't remember every player, game, year, etc. # 21 alcott: I am ready to start War and Peace, I bought my copy this weekend! I have starred the thread and also can not wait to read people's thoughts.

... Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 03/03/09 3. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovery 29/03/09 4. Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace 5. Henry James - The Turn of the Screw 14/06/09 6. 7. 8. 9.

There are three group reads going on right now in the 2009 75 Books Challenge group. War and Peace, Don Quixote and something else I forget. It's strictly voluntary for the challengees, but so far the response looks good.

Besides participating in the group reads of War and Peace and Don Quixote that are beginning on the 15th, I am also reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, which has been highly recommended here on LT. #29: I am a big Hawthorne fan as well - one of my favorite stories by him is Rap ...

... library to read. I will add Zorro to Continent TBR. Thanks for the recommendation! BTW - Are you ready to start on War and Peace on the 15th? I am raring to go! There are a bunch of us reading it all together now, so it should be very interesting reading everyone's views on the book.

I just started War and Peace. It should keep me busy for a while.

... frustrations, depression, deep thought, love, bullying, morality, illness. Fun stuff! By the way, I've read War and Peace but I also loved his short stories.

... holidays). January book club selections Faith of My Fathers by John McCain (the main selection for one club) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (a continuing side read) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstory (side read) Great Expectation by Charles Dickens (side read) Sacajawea by Anna W ...

I'm slowly making my way through War and Peace right now, as well as Little Women. Obviously, I will be finishing Little Women first.

... reading Sandra Worth's The Rose of York: Love and War (touchstone rebelling). I'm also still slowly making my way through War and Peace.

War and Peace and Les Miserables two of my all time favourite books. I didn't read them back to back but did read them both in 2007 http://sites.google.com/site/meraciousincunabulum/Home/books-read-in-2007 as well as Clarissa Come to think about it, those were BIG books "-)

It would be interesting to read War and Peace and Les Miserables back to back, considering both are about the Napoleonic Wars. And both are really, really long. Probably have to set aside a couple years for that project. Another good war book is Dispatches by Michael Herr. Is it non-fict ...

... (Hasek). This thread is generally about fiction, but the best book I've read on Napolean's invasion of Russia (other than War and Peace (Tolstoy)) is de Segur's History of the Expedition to Russia.

... to Borders this morning and am counting what I got there as late presents to myself: The Watchmen Allan Moore War and Peace Leo Tolstoy

... to read after finishing all of my casebook readings, but still made it to 100, which is not so bad. Plus the equivalent of War and Peace in casebooks (but less interesting). Once again, my reviews will have to be rather brief, since I'm so behind, but I will try to post longer ones on my ...

I think I'll join you, too! I tried to read War and Peace last year but got sidetracked by real life. The timing is much better, now. I'll warn you, though, that once you get going, it's a pretty fast read. It seems daunting, but Tolstoy tells a good tale, and the Pevear and Volokhnosky that I ...

... read. Many of them have been wanting to read DQ for awhile but have been outvoted several times. And where is the War and Peace group read? I may want to join in on that one. Thanks! :)

... in one long haul. I am not very good in reading more than one book at the same time. Maybe after DQ I'll catch up with War and Peace, we own that book too, although I was thinking to read Mother by Maxim Gorky. Well maybe I can read two Russians this year ;-)

War and Peace seems to be one of those books that everyone feels as if they should read but never do, which I attribute to its sheer size. I think breaking it into approximately 100 page chunks over the course of 2009 is going to induce a lot of us to actually start and finish it. If anyone ...

... to think about the ending for a few days, I think. I'll post a link to my official blog review later. Still poking at War and Peace. I seem to be approaching it rather cautiously. We'll see how it goes the next few weeks.

You lucky readers! War and Peace is one of my all-time favorite books, and I read it for the third time a year or two ago when the wonderful Pevear and Volkhonsky translation came out. You are in for a treat! PS From Netflix, you can get the multi-disc Russian version of the movie; it's great ...

Watch this space . . . several of us are joining together to read War and Peace throughout 2009. We are not in any hurry, but are taking it in about 100 page chunks every month. Anyone who wants to join in may - the more, the merrier. Our liftoff date is January 15, 2009. Due to differences ...

... of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 29. Adventures of Huck Finn 30. Treasure Island 31. Through the Looking Glass 32. War and Peace 33. Little Women 34. Therese Raquin 35. Journey to the Center of the Earth 36. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 37. Notes from the Underground ...

I'm starting off with War and Peace. I think it's a good time to read it.

... two years. Lately I've been trying books I never had any desire to try before, such as classics like Anna Karenina and War and Peace. I still love and crave lighter stuff like cozy mysteries, but I'm starting to give away my non-mystery 'chick lit' because it doesn't satisfy me anymore. I' ...

... 6 46. Little Women, Alcott, 1960's 47. The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, 1966 48. The Idiot, Dostoevsky, 1969 49. War and Peace, Tolstoi, 1966 50. Middlemarch, George Eliot, 2001 51. Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy, 1970's 52. *Daniel Deronda, George Eliot, 2007 (Di ...

Good luck with War and Peace - I'm hoping to finally read that one this year too, although I imagine for me also, it will be read concurrently with other books over a rather protracted period.

@Jayde and Stasia That makes three of us with War and Peace in our this year's TBR, may be we can set up a common goal like 100 pages atleast per month...

You and I can finish War and Peace together this year, although I guess I better get started on it. I am going to get it done this year, though. Of course, I said that last year, too. Sigh.

You and I can compare notes on Tolstoy this year, Rachael. I am starting War and Peace and am going to get it read if it takes all year!

My long book that I read bits and pieces of everyday is War and Peace. I'm also currently reading The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell.

... of Eden by John Steinbeck Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett Alternates: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell One Hundred Years of S ...

I've read War and Peace, but I have never read Doctor Zhivago.

... (the biggest disappointment was A Game of Thrones) and there have been a few stars, with the biggest shiniest one being War and Peace. I'll probably aim to read about 50 this year. It's a nice round number and just about feasible for me. Especially as the PhD might actually get finished this ...

... I think next, I'm going to start on War and Peace. I intend to read other things concurrently, so that I don't fall behind.

... a bit of free time to work with. I started the year off with Looking for Alaska by John Green, and am planning to start War and Peace next. But I will read other things concurrently, because I think all progress would come to a screeching halt if I focused solely on that.

... Things by Arundhati Roy Best classic: Emma by Jane Austen Best female character by a male author: Natasha Rostov in War and Peace (I know this is cheating, but she is just brilliantly written, and frankly made the book for me.)

OK, to sum up the year, here are my favorite reads Fiction 1. War and Peace by Tolstoy 2. All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 3. One of Ours by Cather 4. Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte 5. A Game of thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords ...

... Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov The Lonely Hearts Club by Raul Nunez War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Trial by Franz Kafka I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Jane Eyre by Charlotte B ...

... Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov The Lonely Hearts Club by Raul Nunez War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Trial by Franz Kafka I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Jane Eyre by Charlotte B ...

... averaged around 27 per year in this last 2 years. Saying that, in that time I have read some huge books like Clarissa, War and Peace and Les Miserables Those works together are worth probably 30 average books. I plan to read Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' complete six ...

... managed to be random enough in my reading this year that none of mine are going to affect your wonderful list though :-) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson The God of Sma ...

... I received from my Santa Thing. I will probably also start one of the really long books I intend to read in 2009- possibly War and Peace or The Count of Monte Cristo.

... still The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul is my single most favourite Douglas Adams book. Have big plans for War and Peace next year, hoping that I wont give up on it, was able to finish Anna Karenina this year without much ado.

... be there. I am anyways thinking of reading a few classics to start the year, probable ones being The Scarlet Letter, War and Peace, amongst others...

#161 - I knew the ending of Anna Karenina, too -- but it didn't really spoil what really is an amazing novel. Better than War and Peace I think, but I was quite young when I read W&P so who knows.

... has always had a passion for it and it will be fun to read some thing together! I've read Iliad a couple of times and War and Peace a long time ago--I will want to reread that. I own Peloponnesian War but haven't read it The other three are new to me and I will have to find them. I ...

rdurick, I was reading your post and thought, "gee, I don't recall having any problem with War an Peace." Then I quickly remembered I had watched 2 movie versions, listened to a BBC abridged audio version, etc., etc., prior to reading it!

... absolutely adored The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 'trilogy' (as did I a few years older - and still do)... Re War and Peace, my dad gave me a lovely edition of it for Christmas last year (partly because I'd been enjoying loads of Russian authors at the time) and I'm feeling guilty ...

... group * The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides * On War by Carl von Clausewitz - own it * War and Peace by Tolstoy - own it * Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane - already read it * Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson - own it * ...

... Flat and Crowded And for fiction, The Plague A Confederacy of Dunces Vanity Fair The Master and Margarita War and Peace

... I suddenly dwelt on a realisation that Les Miserables by Victor Hugo was a shocking 114th. I was also unnerved by War and Peace making it to 20th only. However, after an emergency cup of tea (extra strength Dilmah) :-) I concluded that these two gems were not sharing top spot, only ...

jhowell I'm glad to hear you like Anna Karenina so much. I have finally decided to tackle that one--I loved War and Peace when I read it years ago as a teenager--i guess i should read it again--but I have hesitated about AK, maybe because I know the ending. Someone told me when I was about ...

I have not noticed inconsistencies in War and Peace because it is a very big book and I wasn't looking for them. I think they'd have to smack me in the eye in order to get my attention. I often look for the consistencies. I saw the new The Day the Earth Stood Still a couple of ...

... of plans for my Christmas reading, then realised that it would involve reading at least 2 books a day, one of which was War and Peace, which I'm positive will take more than 1 - somehow, even with an unusually un-busy Christmas this year, I don't think that that's going to happen!! Inkhea ...

I have read War and Peace a few times now. It is difficult in two ways. It is long and complex in narrative and, depending on the translation, narration (first name, patronymic, family name and their interchangeability, for example). It offers ideas that apply universally and require ...

... Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams The Return of Merlin, Deepak Chopra One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell The Sexiest Man Alive A Biography of Warren Beatty, Ellis Amburn The Ancient One, T.A. Barron Ex-Li ...

... is pretty heavy for an 11-year-old! Of course I would advocate an unabridged version. (And I suppose I did read War and Peace at thirteen...) I think Mary Norton's Borrowers series is worth keeping throughout life, even though it's written for a younger audience. I know I am ...

... 4. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 5. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 6. Dracula by Bram Stoker. 7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. 8. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. 9. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

... wanting to read "heavier" tomes next year. I'll admit, this year I read a lot more YA to try and meet goal. I avoided War and Peace and A Suitable Boy (to name two) and many over 500 pages for that very reason. For me, getting over 100 books read this year was a huge accomplishment (I ...

#85, War and Peace is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it three times: first, as a teenager, where I skipped over the war; second, in my 40s, when I found the war sections fascinating; and third, in my 50s, when the new English translation by Volkhonsky and Pevear came out. I ...

#77 I read War and Peace earlier this year : in my humble opinion, the book's reputation is solely based on the number of pages it contains, not on its difficulty. I had mixed feelings in the end but it certainly wasn't due to its crystal clear writing style. I don't know if you agree, I know I ...

... lined up for 2009, which have me a little worried if I will be able to meet my goal of 120 books. We will see. I have War and Peace, and a few of Dan Simmons tomes like Drood and The Terror amongst others, and I plan to continue to plow through King’s bibliography which still ...

... I *inherited* a massive pile of books last week, and have decided to dip into them, whilst still ploughing through war and peace.

... The aptly titled Bleak House with its super-virgin in 900 pages worth of lethargic litigation hell; Count Tolstoy's War and Peace, which combines bad philosophy and jingoism with dull characters in a story that begins in earnest at page 600 (not to mention my disappointment as a huge Ann ...

My multiple versions of War and Peace, including the Inner Sanctum edition. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould. His nature writing is nice to dabble in, but the high-octane theory stuff just fills out the bookshelf. The Warhammer 40K novels. It doesn't help ...

3. 19th Century Literature 1. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 2. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 3. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray 4. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 5. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky 6. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky 7. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert 8. ...

... four or five days off, plant myself on the couch and devour some big, fat classic like MADAME BOVARY, LES MISERABLES or WAR AND PEACE. But as to whether that will ever actually happen... (Sigh)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Xenocide by Orson Scott Card Year Zero by Jeff Long Zig Ziglars Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar Alaska by James Michener

... in the year. As far as Dance to the Music of Time goes, I will probably wait a little longer on it. I'm planning to read War and Peace first, unless the Group Reads: Literature group picks The Count of Monte Cristo or Les Miserables as their next book, in which case, that book will be the ...

... think I am not mature enough to understand what writers might be saying..) I remember somebody (strangely) recommending me War and Peace when I was in 8th grade..and I..dutifully started to read..but after 100 pages..I..returned it to the library..I wonder what I'll think about it now.. Dead ...

War and Peace really changed my literary experience. Its is not as exciting as say The Count of Monte Cristo or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn so It was difficult to stay engaged, but soon realized the immense genius of the character development and the intricacy of the character ...

LOL Sandy. Def read War and Peace it'll get you back into things. Or you can go with 1984 its good, fast, and you can say you read a classic.

I've been enjoying being a voyeur, but feel that I now need to speak up for War and Peace which I read twice in my teens and am about to read again now in my forties. I adore that book, perhaps in part because I adored my Russian Lit prof, who had helped smuggle artists' writings out of the Sov ...

I checked, Booksloth is right. I was just about to guess War and Peace. I had a quote all lined up, too. Something about green eggs and ham.

... Go: Patrick Ness + sequels (FlossieT) ...and again to add Books that I definitely want to read next year: - War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy (because my Dad gave me a lovely copy for Christmas last year and I've still not got around to reading it) - The Trial: Franz Kaf ...

... Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks Remains of the Day When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka War and Peace Half of a Yellow Sun The Blind Assassin The Girls by Lori Lansens Music and Silence - Rose Tremain The Secret River = Kate G ...

I'd suggest the ol' hair of the dog. Suggest he start with War and Peace.

I love the Christmas scene in War and Peace.

I'm still on War and Peace, and will be for the foreseeable future! I'm finding it pretty tough, trying to keep up with all the characters and their name changes. There is a list of characters at the front of the book for referencing, but flicking back and forward every chapter is a bit tricky, ...

... through Anna Karenina this week -- it is great and not difficult at all. I predict you'll love it! I also read War and Peace years ago and loved it.

#127 LaBella 77 My huge book this year is going to be Anna Karenina, also by Tolstoy. I loved War and Peace when I read it many years ago--have a great time with it!

I've read Anna Karenina, which is by the same author. Maybe someday I'll read War and Peace . . . But I've never read Wicked Lovely.

I thought I'd tackle War and Peace, I have a 2 hour round trip on the London underground every day so i think i can get it all done in two or three weeks. I have a huge hard back copy as well so for the first 20 minutes of the journey i'm banging into peoples necks whist we all stand up squashed ...

I've read Persuasion But I have never read War and Peace

I'm probably going to start the year with two books: War and Peace for sure, and I'll probably go with one of my YA reads to give me something a little lighter as well.

... been discussed here, and something that takes you into a completely different world. In the second category, I read War and Peace at a time when a family member was in the hospital (and it was also just after 9/11 in NYC and everyone was still jittery): it was just the thing to take me ...

I loved Natasha Rostov in War and Peace.

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy read while in the flower of youth..... also I like to challenge myself to find the shortest possible book title and force a little investigation for a response.

>74 Julie, you may bide your time, but you definitely come up with winners. I have read War and Peace. The first time I read it was the summer after my fifth-grade year. I was 11 at the time. I remember reading all the love and courtship sections and skimming/skipping the the war sections. My ...

Agh - a double post. ETA I only pressed the button once, honestly.

... it - it is not an endurance test, a badge of office to be won or a medal winning feat to have read it! So my next nudge is War and Peace. However, the fact that it is not in your library may be speaking for itself! Moving swiftly on. How about a nudge towards a Newbery Award? I see we ...

... George Steiner wrote a book about it, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. He preferred Dostoevsky. That said, I nudge both War and Peace and Crime and Punishment, to be followed by a palate-cleansing Pride and Prejudice: a show of ands.

... George Steiner wrote a book about it, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. He preferred Dostoevsky. That said, I nudge both War and Peace and Crime and Punishment, to be followed by a palate-cleansing Pride and Prejudice: a show of ands.

Sorry, I don't think Mr. 1001 should read War and Peace. I believe he's already reading Proust, and carrying both those books around will result in a rather ape-like appearance. Next thing you know, he'll be walking with his knuckles.

Don't be such a wimp and bite the bullet! War and Peace is my nudge for you. You will not regret it, it's a great read. And you will look so virtuous carrying it around!

Yeah, I'll bet War and Peace doesn't intimidate you...8^} You know, I never connected the Dan Simmons that wrote The Terror with the Dan Simmons that wrote the Hyperion series until this thread. Duh.

I nudge War and Peace. Although long, Tolstoy is worth it. --BJ

Being as how you have declared yourself of the male gender, I am nudging War and Peace and Jude the Obscure. Both amazing, both unforgettable. (who can beat Tolstoy or Hardy). Thanks for the laughs - really enjoying your thread M1001. I am off to U-tube to look up your dance routine and ...

Books alredy chosen and read: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Middlemarch by George Eliot The Age of Innocence by Edit Wharton Bleak House by Charles Dickens Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

... Austen and have reread P&P several times. The Brontes I cannot stand, very much on sexist grounds. Wharton is enjoyable. War and Peace is great, sure, but you have to decide you are willing to spend two months with it, and perhaps not. Anna Karenina I prefer to War and Peace. But my ...

... Heap (literally, not figuratively) The Age of Innocence - **** The House of Mirth - ** Left side War and Peace - ** Jane Austen Collection which includes: Pride and Prejudice - **** Sense and Sensibility (already read it) - **** Emma - **** Persuasi ...

Just on Pevear and Volokhonsky, he wrote quite a sniffy article in the LRB about other translations of War and Peace, eliciting this elegant rebuke from Janet Malcolm: "Pevear has promoted his and Larissa Volokhonsky’s wooden translation of War and Peace by claiming that it offers an ...

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... wondering where it was go and what was going to happen to him. 98. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy After reading War and Peace, anything else Tolstoy just can't compare. I didn't find this story that interesting but it was a quick read and I can't complain about that. 99. The Awake ...

... Stalingrad amongst other things - with the extraordinarily impressive Life and Fate. This novel is sometimes likened to War and Peace, a comparison that - after 300 pages at least - it fully justifies. Despite the grim setting of the novel it is far from depressing, but manages to be both ...

... glancing through other people's entries in the 2008 reading challenge and saw that you like reading history. I devoured War and Peace on tape--I think it was 30+ tapes. But worth the effort---it must have been a summer I wasn't working fulltime. I am going to take your recommendation to read ...

Not quite the only person - I've read War and Peace, though I prefer Anna Karenina. How about The Idiot? I do love the Russians!

How about War and Peace? I may have missed it, but I didn't see it on the last list posted.

... dies the narrator tells us how she feels and what she thinks of her own death. I think I read some similar descriptions in War and Peace. I hope to read more about the black plague later on (I'm just reading about the 14th century in my History of Europe. I guess I'll find something there). ...

... a translation problem. Rather, I believe it more of a content issue. Dr. Faustus Is eminently more difficult than War and Peace, The Brother Karamazov, and Herzog combined.

... a translation problem. Rather, I believe it more of a content issue. Dr. Faustus Is eminently more difficult than War and Peace, The Brother Karamazov, and Herzog combined.

... Greek miscellaneous writings o 889 Modern Greek * 890 Literatures of other languages 891 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy o 892 Afro-Asiatic literatures Semitic o 893 Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic literatures o 894 Ural-Altaic, Paleosiber ...

... and really want to be taken away from the world you're in, a long historical novel is a good choice, something like War and Peace.

... get anything out of this?" It is, at least, a pleasantly pointless activity. The other reason is the new translation of war and peace with all the bits that were originally in French (lots of the dialogue and letters) left in French and just the Russian translated to English which I am ...

... books were definitely the heaviest part and the most boxes in my move! I am somewhat into classics this year, tried the war and Peace reading group but the move and its preparations foiled the attempt :-). Currently on the pile are North and South and Kristin Lavransdatter and I will ...

... I only have read The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Some day soon -- perhaps after I finish Proust -- I will tackle that copy of War and Peace that has been sitting patiently on my bookshelf glaring at me. -- M1001

Trish I just read on another thread that there is a new translation out of War and Peace that is supposedly closer to the tolstoy's original than the "Victorian English" translations we read and if fact reads more like the language we use today. You might want to look into that--with luck ...

... complicated The Simarillion seemed. On your recommendation, I may just give it a whirl. I gotta agree with your son on War and Peace. I own a copy and plan to read it one day but when I skimmed it and saw all those names, I ran.

... is that the translation adhere as closely to the text as possible. A good example of this is the most recent translation of War and Peace - it is closer to Tolstoy's original than most of the more Victorian sounding translations that preceded it, and ironically this more-accurate translation ...

... thing I remember reading and then re-reading was the story of Annie Sullivan, called Helen Keller's Teacher. Then it was War and Peace in my teens - twice back to back, and a third time since then.

... track of you need a reference to keep them straight. (My older son, who insisted I read this, says he couldn’t get into War and Peace because he couldn’t keep track of the names, yet this is one of his favorite works. Go Figure. W&P is a piece of cake compared to this.) However it is ...

Where River Turns to Sky by Gregg Kleiner Peace Like a River by Leif Enger War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells The World of the French Revolution by Robert Roswell Palmer

bookaholicgirl - I know exactly what you mean. I read War and Peace back in January. No regrets though - it was brilliant, engrossing and very rewarding.

... Karenina--I have wanted to read this for years and a group read will nudge me over the edge. I wouldn't mind re-reading War and Peace sometime since it has been several years since I read it but for me I need to do AK first.

... in of long accumulated bonus points at Quality Paperback Books: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz; War and Peace, the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation; Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell; Ad Infinitum by Nicholas Ostler; and The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Bark ...

... character who seems to be affecting her own destiny-Catherine seemed such a victim! This was my first (and last) read of War and Peace. It was a bit cumbersome for me.

... your list; do what you want. Some of these lists include children's chapter books. Some people count a thick book like War and Peace as more than one book. Some of us include poetry (lots of white space!). To each his/her own (didn't someone already say that:-). My suggestion is if you ...

I seriously believe I have developed A.D.D. I have started every book here since War and Peace - finished none! The furtherest I got was in Age of Innocence, so close to the end...

... you find the Tolstoy? I haven't yet tackled the ones in my library. Was it your first Tolstoy? Was it your first read of War and Peace? It's on my list to read but don't know when I'll get to it. Jane Eyre is one of my favorites; an early read for me when I was in high school. Just ...

... Stricken Field by Martha Gellhorn 6 The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West 7 8 Book Around The World 1 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 2 Snow by Orhan Pamuk 3 The Lying Days by Nadine Gordiner 4 The Reader - a novel by Bernhard Schlink 5 Behind the Bur ...

I'm going to try to read 75 books by my LT anniversary of 17 Aug 2009. 1) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 2) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver 3) Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins 4) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

... agree that this group should be for tackling long daunting classics with moral support -- just like with Middlemarch and War and Peace, though I had already read those. Thats why I think Moby Dick would be a good choice. Nonetheless, I am willing to be more global and go with Kristin ...

The Art of War by Sun Tzu War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy A Separate Peace by John Knowles Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli Room with a View by E.M. Forster

... FS publications without joining. I was impressed with the quality of that book as well as a copy of the limited edition of War and Peace which I bought from a US dealer immediately after that, as the title had just sold out at the Society. After receiving that book, seeing its quality, and ...

Have Gone with the Wind. Don't think I've ever read War and Peace. Keep `em comin'.

... The Netherlands: The Diary of Anne Frank Ireland: James Joyce, Ulysses; W.B. Yeats Collected Poems Russia: Tolstoy, War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago, Chekhov's plays, especially Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard United Kingdom -- oh where to start?? Chauce ...

... Stricken Field by Martha Gellhorn 6 The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West 7 8 Book Around The World 1 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 2 Snow by Orhan Pamuk 3 The Lying Days by Nadine Gordiner 4 The Reader - a novel by Bernhard Schlink 5 Behind the Bur ...

... Poetry - The Inferno 861 Spanish Poetry - Full Woman, Fleshy Apple, Hot Moon 891 East Indo-European and Celtic - War and Peace 973 General History of North America; United States - The Approaching Fury

... Stricken Field by Martha Gellhorn 6 The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West 7 8 Book Around The World 1 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 2 Snow by Orhan Pamuk 3 The Lying Days by Nadine Gordiner 4 The Reader - a novel by Bernhard Schlink 5 Behind the Bur ...

... I would also like to take this opportunity to present the rest of the 1000+ page novels: Cecilia by Fanny Burney War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy U.S.A. by Dos Passos Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson Jahrestage by Uwe Johnson A Dance to the Music of Time by Anth ...

... of the highest quality like The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, after reading it ten years ago and would like to read War and Peace again. But for typical fiction, no rereading. Nonfiction of course I often keep and look things up in, especially if it is about gardening or other topics ...

... by George Orwell (reread) 6) The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel 7) Skeleton Coast by Clive Cussler 8) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 9) The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (reread) 10) Wiplala by Annie M.G. Schmidt (reread) 11) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)

My top ten classic books: The Brothers Karamazov War and Peace Gargantua and Pantagruel Pere Goriot Captains Courageous Emma Phineas Finn Huckleberry Finn Playboy of the Western World The Winter's Tale I have to say, these are my 10 favorites, these are not ...

My top ten classic books: The Brothers Karamazov War and Peace Gargantua and Pantagruel Pere Goriot Captains Courageous Emma Phineas Finn Huckleberry Finn Playboy of the Western World The Winter's Tale I have to say, these are may 10 favorites, these are not ...

... novels published by Barnes & Noble in its 'Library of Essential Writers' series. The three novels are: The Cossacks, War and Peace, and Anna karenina. I feel a sense of accomplishment though it took me 3.5 months to read all three during my daily commute on the ferry from Marin County ...

... by Carol O'Connell The Dracula Dossier by James Reese (Poltergeist by Kat Richardson) War and Peace by Tolstoy (The Brothers K by Duncan)

... I sit in front of the computer. And order books. Permaybehaps I should pick something light and frothy up...oh say War and Peace....

I loved it too, as well as War and Peace.

#22, Yes, and some of the names for War and Peace are listed more than once (e.g., Natasha).

... characters and places to get to those. (Have you seen how many characters there are in Fellowship of the Ring or War and Peace?)

... Wife Something Happened Middlesex Inkheart And these that I've been eyeing: The Stand Anna Karenina or War and Peace Don Quixote Outlander maybe a re-read of The Thorn Birds (TBA)

I'd second War and Peace and add The Killer Angels.

... tale of Genji? Is it an "easy" read? What are the challenges? I would presume it is filled with characters, not unlike War and Peace. It is a frequent entrant on many best-novels lists.

... tale of Genji? Is it an "easy" read? What are the challenges? I would presume it is filled with characters, not unlike War and Peace. It is a frequent entrant on many best-novels lists.

... Girl with a Pearl Earring - about Vermeer Lampedusa's The Leopard - Sicily in Garibaldi's times Tolstoy's "War and Peace" Patrick White Voss - about Australian pioneers Steven Saylor - novels about the ancient Rome Robert Graves - I, Claudius and Count Belisar ...

... of Ivan Ilyich was excellent. Try the short story Master and Man as well. Ok, back to subject of long novels. War and Peace was also very good.

I read War and Peace about two months ago. While it was a fine story, and I enjoyed The Death of Ivan Ilyich much better, it was no Dostoevsky. My next large novel will probably be Don Quixote.

War and Peace The Red Badge of Courage Catch-22 All Quiet on the Western Front Slaughterhouse-Five Johnny Got His Gun edited to add: GPO's Federal Budget Feel free to move this post if there's a new location for this discussion; I'll be here with my cheese and tea if ...

sbnicar, I feel completely the same! I haven't read War and Peace more than once though - for one thing I'm afraid it won't have the same effect the second time. And there are so many other great books to read. I don't think I can keep it off much longer though, I'm "itching" to read it again! No ...

Tolstoy is not just my favorite Russian author, but my favorite author period. Favorite book is War and Peace - the first time I read it (at the risk of hyperbole) it blew my mind. The second time I read it, it blew my mind. We'll see what happens the third time (I'm reading different ...

... up by 1,001 Books Category with the following: Sense and Sensibility Persuasion Through the Looking Glass War and Peace Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Age of Innocence The Time Machine The Mysteries of Udolpho But I have also read others for different ...

... is to have an open ended period to read a selected work, however long it takes. In the Literature group they started with War and Peace, some folks had it read in a couple of weeks, others straggled in as many as three months after starting. At a point that most here read what we select, we ...

... For Whom the Bell Tolls, Notorious 7. Greta Garbo as Ninotchka and Anna Christie 8. Audrey Hepburn as Natasha in War and Peace 9. Emily Watson as Jacqueline Du Pres in Hilary and Jackie 10. Elaine May as Henrietta, the confident botanist in a New Leaf 11. Denzel Washington as M ...

... 400. An exhaustively detailed narrative that seemed to go nowhere verrrry sloooowly. And while there a lot to like about War and Peace, there was also a lot I found stupefyingly dull. I hope to have better luck with Anna Karenina when I eventually get around to it.

... would have to be a good story as well. ( I've chugged through some pretty long flops.) You've already read War and Peace, which I think is considered the heaviest read out there. ( ripping good story though). How about Don Quixote? If I remember correctly it was very ...

This year I've finished Middlemarch by George Eliot (900+ pages) and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1,000+ pages), and I'll surely recommend them for those of you loving great realistic classic novels. Currently reading: "Forføreren. Erobreren. Oppdageren" by the contemporary Norwegian ...

... y. III. 1,001 Books You Must Read 1. Sense and Sensibility 2. Persuasion 3. Through the Looking Glass 4. War and Peace 5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 6. The Age of Innocence 7. The Time Machine 8. The Mysteries of Udolpho Extra Credit 9. Ethan Frome

... y. III. 1,001 Books You Must Read 1. Sense and Sensibility 2. Persuasion 3. Through the Looking Glass 4. War and Peace 5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 6. The Age of Innocence 7. The Time Machine 8. The Mysteries of Udolpho I'm excited to start seeing some ...

... la struttura del romanzo della Morante, che alterna capitoli narrativi a "cronologie" ricalca perfettamente lo schema di Guerra e Pace, dove i capitoli si alternano nello stesso modo (la storia vs. la Storia). Il modello è sicuramente "alto". E' una visione sconsolata, pessimista e ...

... of books I reread. Like some others here, I find I can get a lot more out of reading books like Anna Karenina and War and Peace now than I did when I read them 35+ years ago as a teenager. I may see characters and plot in a very different light, now that I've experienced more of life ...

I would strongly recommend War and Peace. I'm told The Tale of Genji is also very good

... to put in a plug for Anna Karenina, though I think it is only about 700 pp. In my humble opinion, it is much better than War and Peace, though W&P is also good.

There's always War and Peace. The Pevear-Volokhnsky translation is quite readable. (Full disclosure - I've started War and Peace but have not finished it. Lot's of reasons, but suffice it to say that I'll be back to it this fall.)

... into the used book/music/movie store "just to browse" and walked away with armfuls of books and cds. Among the books: War and Peace (1942 edition) Two Years Before the Mast (1947 edition) Heaven and Hell: A Compulsively Readable Compendium of Myth, Legend, Wisdom, and Wit For Saints ...

Re #38: Ah yes! Across the Pacific on a slow cargo ship with all those tomes you've been putting off reading: War and Peace, Clarissa, In Search of Lost Time, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.........t'is a consummation devoutly to be wished! (As long as it's not a ship ...

Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence The Bourgeois Poet Karl Jay Shapiro Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig Bush's Brain James Moore

... editions (the fiction titles anyway) have been landmark publications in a nation's literature: Ulysses, Don Quixote, War and Peace, Decameron - and even the Tolkien set since LOTR was voted the Book of the Century by FS members. My personal choice would be what is sometimes called ...

... gan Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Candide by Voltaire The Misanthrope by Moliere War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Yay, I finished!!) Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Year of ...

I've got to put in another plug for War and Peace. I love Tolstoy. His short stories are great also.

Did you like Anna Karenina better than War and Peace? So many heavy weights listed!

... them and all the others would just be adding books to my tbr pile ;-) Especially because I haven't even managed to finish War and Peace or Middlemarch yet. And I really want to take part this time as the semester is over and I actually have time to read whatever I want.

... page is so tangible in the very best books. The most recent book that evoked that feeling as I turned the last page was War and Peace. I would love to read Possession again as I am sure that the passage of life may well bring a different light to the novel.

... The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox -- Maggie O'Farrell Mudbound -- Hillary Jordan And I feel I must include War and Peace. For the amazing experience it was, even though I don't think of it as a favorite book. Well I got it down to seven. Not bad.

1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 2. Middlemarch by George Elioot 3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 4. Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun 5. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut And I'm looking forward to To kill a Mockingbird and David Copperfield

If you want a grim but amazing book, try Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman. Often called the War and Peace of World War II, it presents a panorama of the war from the Soviet perspective, for both soldiers and civilians, while centering on the siege of Stalingrad. Two other fascinating ...

... was composed of 66 books. :-) I've only read it through one time in my life, but it was definitely worth it. I also read War and Peace earlier this year. Another once in a lifetime reading event for me.

... I managed to squeeze in the first two episodes of 24, season 6 (just started here). But now I've got lined up 4 DVDs of War and Peace (dir. Sergey Bondarchuk), and already have watched one hour (of 8 or so). This will keep me occupied for the best part of a week -- I'll be back! ;-)

... cataloguing all my books. Anyway, the reason I was going to post was I was having a chat with my wife the other day about War and Peace and I was thinking that because it's so large and daunting, somebody should write up a "Read War and Peace In A Year" guide (like they do for the Bible). ...

I just finished War and Peace, and am now starting The Spy Who Came In from the Cold.

#102 continued Finished War and Peace. 64 books out of 1001

193> RcCarol: Heh, sounds a little bit like War and Peace. Well, if it's as good as that I'll be very happy :-)

Finished War and Peace today. :-)) My impressions: The novel is very realistic and I've learnt a lot about Russia and its people in the nineteenth century. And about the Napoleonic War, of course. But I liked much more to read about the main characters and their struggles and faiths. ...

Finished War and Peace. :-D Dickens (and Hamsun?) next!!

Re #29: As a matter of fact, leonb, I was referring to War and Peace as I just bought The Collected Stories and knew that they were bringing out a new Anna Karenina, both in the Maude translation, and (like an ass) assumed the War and Peace followed suit. Mea culpa. And I actually like ...

About 850 pages into War and Peace.

BTW, that IS a cool cutting board. I have an old fold-out style chess board that was in the shape of War and Peace. It actually says Volume IV on both sides of the "binder edge". Wonder what the Volumes I through III were Checkers? Parcheesi? Scrabble?

... it have been included as an appendix to the book. It was to be a big novel, bigger than everything she had written before, War and Peace was a huge inspiration. She set it up like a symphony, five movements with different tempi, different motives but the one unifying theme of war and its ...

Hi kjellika. Your challenge is looking good! I have to congratulate you on reading War and Peace. A challenge if there ever was one.

War and Peace: page 845, 223 pages left. Plan to read: David Copperfield in English Tilfeldigvis - Arial Footlights Forhistorie

... to overcome that and just ordered one. Re 49: I like the one-volume format of the FS limited editions of Don Quixote, War and Peace and Decameron that I have. I think that they work very well and don't find them to be too cumbersome.

... think would have been too fussy. Does anyone else feel that a novel this long (as was the case with the limited edition War and Peace), should have been split into two volumes?

... but if something else appears at the bookstore, I'll get that instead. 1 The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi 2 War and Peace by Tolstoy 3 Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif 4 Sons of the Yellow Emperor by Lynn Pan 5 This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer 6 The Boo ...

... languages (Nordic). Advantageous. I think there will be a little less reading the next six weeks, but I plan to finish War and Peace and perhaps read some Dickens. Three days ago I received a box containing ("Collector's Library"): A Christmas Carol and two other Christmas Books, Great Ex ...

I'm reading a classic at the moment; War and Peace.

... special book for me for several reasons, not least because it was the first Virago I read. p.s I love the way you have War and Peace and 1001 Books you must read before you die as bookends for your Viragos!

... but I agree with klarusu that it is advantageous reading the same book at the same time. PS: I'm still reading War and Peace (the first Group Read) for a couple of weeks, because I postponed it while reading Middlemarch.

... suggests and have two threads - we could read either/or or both. There were multiple threads for both Middlemarch and War and Peace - would this be any different?

I'm enjoying War and Peace. However, It just seems like the page count never goes down. I'm just a few pages after 500.

... she was so upset, she couldn't go on. I used to do the same thing when I was younger--heck, I just took a huge break from War and Peace because I was SO MAD at Prince Andrei, I couldn't read any more! I am getting back to it, though... All of this is kind of beside the point, isn't it? You ...

... the Society as to preferences in Limited Editions, I recommended that they produce two editions such as Decameron and War and Peace each year. I believe that you had mentioned this thought earlier in another thread, and as I had the same preference as you for both of these productions, I ...

... say. There is a group currently making its way through the "Classics". The group is called "Group Reads". We just finished War and Peace, are in the process of reading Middlemarch, and are about to select Madame Bovary for our next read. These books are neither specifically Christian in ...

... I just want to gouge the eyes out of some of the characters, they're so tedious. Although, I have fond memories of War and Peace, I am just not sure about Russian Lit. Between Brothers K and Dr. Zhivago which I read recently --- I don't know, tough going for me.

War and Peace has to be up there at the top really. Emma by Jane Austen I loved. I know she's not always the most popular heroine, but I found her very sympathetic despite her total lack of perceptiveness on occasion. After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda, who was the 1926 Nobel Laurea ...

I've finally finished War and Peace! My review is here. In short, there's a reason everyone raves. It's rave-worthy. lilyfyrestorm, I love your profile pic! Can you review The Fox by D.H. Lawrence please? When choosing ...

... appreciation! My top for May would have to be Wild Life by Molly Gloss Small Island by Andrea Levy War and Peace by that Tolstoy guy

I've just appreciated getting some quality reading time on holiday to finish War and Peace (bit heavy for the beach sometimes though...). I followed it by reading something from where I was visiting (Sardinia) and then moved on to the more random books I'd brought with me. None of them were ...

I just left George Eliot's England (Middlemarch) and am now back in Tolstoy's Russia (War and Peace). I guess I'll stay there until June 22.

Having finally made my way out of Russia and War and Peace, I am finishing up the month both in post-war London with Barbara Pym's Excellent Women and in New York's West Harlem fighting off the corner boys in Home Girl by Judith Matloff.

Smack in the middle of Russia with War and Peace.

Since I finally finished War and Peace and also The Green Mile, I wanted to take on some lighter reading for a bit. I'm working on the Wednesday Sisters and The Age of Innocence. A little bit of diversity.

It's been way too long since I finished a book but I made the major accomplishment of finishing War and Peace (it took me 3 months), but now that I have that out of my hair, I can start reading less complicated and shorter books. I also finished the Green Mile. Reviews are in my library.

#20: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Why I Chose It: I have always wanted to say I accomplished War and Peace. What started out more as a chore and a guessing game at every chapter as to who was who and what they were doing, soon turned into a wonderful story about family, love, life, war, ...

tiffin, I finished War and Peace. I dropped out of the challenge because I got so far behind. I also have the entire Remembrance of Things Past grinning at me from my bookshelf. I bought it on sale at the used bookstore

Finished Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut. I'll now continue my reading of War and Peace (about 600 (big) pages to go). I imagine I've read about 15 books until now in 2008. Some of the volumes consist of more than one book (Hamsun, Beckett)

... property of the judge. They don't ring. This is my second year with the challenge. Last year I took 3 weeks to read War and Peace and dropped out. I work at it but just seem to stay on pace. I read a lot of history and can't seem to keep just one book going at a time. My biggy for ...

139, 148 - I've posted this in a few other places this week, but seems appropriate to repeat it here: Near the end of War and Peace: Pierre is talking about Nikolai: "Here he's collecting a library and has made it a rule not to buy a new book before he's read what he's bought." Made me ...

I just started War and Peace.

I just started War and Peace.

Congratulations teelgee for finishing War and Peace!

... ons Moby Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener and Benito Cerino and Billy Budd Madame Bovary Crime and Punishment War and Peace and Master and Man and The Death of Ivan Ilyich Works by Emily Dickinson Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Huckleberry ...

I have finally departed Russia, having conquered War and Peace. I'm now in Vancouver, BC, The End of East by Jen Sookfong Lee and with The Duchess of Devonshire in Chatsworth, Derbyshire, Counting My Chickens.

Re my message #47 - btw, that line was near the END of War and Peace, which, thankfully, I finished last night. Whew!!!! (Cross posted on multiple threads, because I'm so Happy!!!)

My congratulations. War and Peace is an excellent book that is very demanding on the reader. It became one of my all time favorites and I look forward to reading it again.

... ry.com/exercise/wv8Gd9W/"> 39. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I have lived with this book for months now. I finally finished it tonight. It is wonderful; it is challenging; it is funny, ...

No books today, but I came across this in War and Peace: Pierre is talking about Nikolai: "Here he's collecting a library and has made it a rule not to buy a new book before he's read what he's bought." Made me laugh out loud.

I honestly think I need to sit this one out, as I'm still on Book 2 of Middlemarch and haven't even touched War and Peace. Stop tempting me with great books, people!

... again. It is sitting on my shelf and I promised myself I would re-try it soon. I suspect those of you who just read War and Peace aren't down with this though. We could also have two choices/two threads going? Perhaps a 'classic' and a 'modern classic.' I suppose that could stir ...

... the end of the almost non-put-downable Small Island by Andrea Levy; also nearing the end of the too-put-downable War and Peace; have a couple of Early Review books in the wings, The End of East and Weaving a Way Home. Never a lack of wonderful things to read!

... so thanks! I'm so excited that I don't know where to start reading!! I snaffled... 3 of the Outlander series, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst, a lovely Folio Society copy of Dangerous Liaisons, a Thread of Grace by Mary Do ...

... with. I found tons more stuff than at the DCM book fair, and I love that one too! Lots of really good new-ish fiction, War and Peace for $2, a bio of Walter Nash by Keith Sinclair, and tons more. (I'll save my long list of books for another group!) Anyway, just wanted to let fellow L ...

... of look at them wonky. I work full time, then teach, and I'm a single mom. Sure I don't have enough time to knock out War and Peace in an afternoon, but I have lunch breaks, I have the hour before bed (and after housecleaning), and weekends. And that's AFTER reading all those ever-so-excit ...

06. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy Big book. Big war. Big Russian names. Everything about this book was large. Tolstoy’s mastering of the characters is what held my interest, and there were a lot of characters (what ever happened to Boris? I seem to have lost track of him. And I loved the ...

... Handbook 83.Persuasion 88.Pinnochio 96.Jungle Book 104.The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Anderson 109.War and Peace 112.Wicked

I have fallen behind quite a lot because War and Peace has been taking up so much time. Now that the end is in sight, I have more motivation to read multiple books at once. 1. Classics 0/8 2. James Patterson Novels 2/8 3. 1,001 Books You Must Read 5/8 4. Children and YA Fiction 3/8 5. Books ...

I gave up - for now, maybe for a long time - in trying to get around to War and Peace and decided to concentrate on reading Middlemarch along with others, since I knew I couldn't do both at the same time. Now I'm kinda behind on Middlemarch. I find that I can't read it unless I have a long ...

... like failure, even though I know its permitted. I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew, assigning myself War and Peace, Clarissa, The Woman in White, and Villette along with everything else I wanted to read this year. :)

I am reading War and Peace too, but as teelgee mentioned she is a bit ahead of me. But I will catch up with her there eventually!!!! I'm also reading Middlemarch, so how many books would that count for? 2? ;-)

Another Tolstoy here: I started War and Peace when I was 14, but I didn't get far and it went back on the shelf to be read later. I've tried a couple of times since, but never made it past the first hundred pages. I'm 30 now, so it's been there for 16 years, and for more than half my life.

... I have the old Constance Garnett translation, and I've heard good things about the new one (the same people who translated War and Peace recently.)

... to be the highlight of the book. After looking over all of the FS titles I have that are bound by Real Lachenmaier: War and Peace, Decameron, The Four Gospels, and Folio 60, I realize that these are the books that I am completely satisfied with. That being said, if the Society ...

... to be the highlight of the book. After looking over all of the FS titles I have that are bound by Real Lachenmaier: War and Peace, Decameron, The Four Gospels, and Folio 60, I realize that these are the books that I am completely satisfied with. That being said, if the Society ...

#158 Talbin: I have decided I am best suited for a "trail behind" group rather than the initial group reading War and Peace. I did not want it to feel like homework, either, and this way I can read the comments as I am progressing with the book. I think this method will work better for me in ...

I guess I've officially given up on War and Peace - for now. I was reading it for the group read, but it started to feel very much like homework. I think I gave up because I'm still coming to terms with my graduate school ghosts. After I left PhD literature studies to pursue something else (loved ...

I must admit I postponed the reading of War and Peace a couple of weeks ago to concentrate on Middlemarch, but I plan to continue reading the novel during my summer holidays. How many of you are still reading W&P, and do you think it will be difficult continuing the reading after a rather ...

... not going to happen as school reading takes up most of my time. The ones I definitely want to read this year are: War and Peace Middlemarch Northanger Abbey Naomi Novik's Temeraire series My Cormac McCarthy books Cloud Atlas Stephen King's Dark Tower series Der ...

And don't forget that the LT group read just finished it recently. They are on to Middlemarch now, but there is plenty of War and Peace dialog over at that group.

... / 50 books. 36% done! Currently Reading: The Green Mile War and Peace

... include Catch-22, Memoirs Of Hadrian, The Robber Bride, The Magus, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Justine, War And Peace, and Little Women. While in Bookman's this week I picked up Hideous Kinky based upon the review (exotic locales, my favorite). The books were ...

... Life in the Pacific Northwest and have found myself in Dublin in The Gathering, while still traveling around Russia in War and Peace.

... years of Chinese poetry The Greek Anthology The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry The Lais of Marie de France War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós

ABC Radio National's the book show has a 20 minute audio interview with the translators about their recent rendition of War and Peace at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2231245.htm .

An interesting hypothetical that does take some thought. Here goes The Iliad The Odyssey War and Peace The Civil War a Narrative three volumes Robert Frost Poems, Plays, Prose The Encyclopedia of World History Complete Works of William Shakespeare Hammett Complete Novels ...

... My first read by him and I'm seriously looking forward to reading more! (Though I would like to point out that Tolstoy (War and Peace when I finish it) is in serious danger of knocking Borges off the top spot...)

My War and Peace progress: Going. Still. A bit at a time. I can't seem to settle in and read more than 10-20 pages at a sitting. Maybe that's ...

I'm making my way through War and Peace, not hugely quickly because of the perils of the PhD but I'm loving it! I will get there eventually...

... long books that I want to read, though, so I might be doubling up just so I don't get burnt out. It's my goal to have War and Peace done by Christmas!

... Girl Two Thousand Leagues under the Sea Irish legends and Fairy Tales The Tales of Hoffmann Oh and I did read War and Peace the summer before my sixth grade year, but I mostly skipped all the war parts because I thought they were boring. I liked the rest of the novel though. I ...

... of the Rings trilogy (I guess thats three, but worth it) Watership Down Mansfield Park Rebecca Lonesome Dove War and Peace that ought to keep me busy -- I went for favorites that are long, involved, and that I would want to re-read. I am not entirely sure about Rebecca, but I ...

III. Big books (500 pages or more) *War and peace *Moby Dick *The way we live now *The novel, volume 1 The first man in Rome Mason and Dixon Underworld *Of human bondage The 19th wife Winter's ...

Revised categories--XXX challenge: I. Christmas presents, 2007 War and peace Facts of winter The last kingdom The good husband of Zebra Drive The magician's doubts Faceless killers Farewell, my lovely The ...

Hmm. Isn't the Deptford Trilogy cheating? Off the top of my head: A Prayer for Owen Meany War and Peace The Master and Margarita Peacable Kingdom Emma Time's Witness The Stand Silence of the Lambs Remains of the Day Last Call Phineas Finn Pictures of Perfection ...

I'm rather surprised by some parallels that have popped up between my two novels: War and Peace and Emma. I'm loving them both though. Classics indeed! I'm about half way through both. Which is more of an achievement with W&P than Emma!

Yes, I have deleted message 39 because I'm postponing the reading of War and peace, and I will now concentrate on Middlemarch as I eventually received the English edition of the novel. I guess I'll read the book mainly in Norwegian and use the English edition sometimes to compare the two ...

I'm seeing the light at the end of War and Peace, less than 300 pages to go. Hope to finish up this week. Also reading In the Wake by Per Petterson - another great book by this contemporary Norwegian author.

And I am through chapter 14, but I still have to re-read sometimes. I was reading War and peace too, but I must postpone the rest of it a couple of months to participate in the discussions here. For the time being I read the Norwegian and the English edition of Middlemarch simultaneously. Int ...

... and the Norwegian (2 volumes) editions of Middlemarch simultaneosly. I'll therefore postpone the further reading of War and peace some months. I will concentrate on 'Middlemarch' for the next couple of months and try to follow the discussion of this novel at 'Group Reads - Literature'.

... Apart 4. Great Expectations 5. Medea 6. The Brothers Karamazov 7. Pride and Prejudice 8. Tristram Shandy 9. War and peace 10. Molloy

Maybe you should read War and Peace? That would be one less! ^^

... work and takes away some of the fun. Time limits are all well and good for lighter reads but when tackling such works as War and Peace or Middlemarch its best to go at your own pace to savor and get into the story. Or at least thats how I feel. @32 thalia - the story can be difficult to ...

I've all but given up on War and Peace for now - I completely missed the first group read, despite all my good intentions to get in on it. But I am planning on picking up Middlemarch - I've got my Norton Critical Edition and I am raring to go - as soon as I read a couple of lighter things in ...

... are eating antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and hormones." Currently Reading: Through the Looking Glass War and Peace Next Up: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

... june), and to participate a little in the discussions. (Perhaps there are characters to compare in Middlemarch and War and Peace?)

... the trail for the rest of us to follow. Not exactly 'blazing' ... I am a little into Book 2. And I don't have War and Peace (or those little fish or turtle counters) to contend with ;)

... "speaking in its defense." As megwaiteclayton said in message # 11, it really is a "desert island book" - in a class with War and Peace - in that it is so RICH, and complete.

I'm reading War and Peace (Norwegian: Krig og fred) by Leo Tolstoy and Middlemarch by George Eliot

... {complete} x2 {complete} 1. Austria - The Confusions of Young Törless ***** 2. Russia - {5/5} ~ a. War and Peace ***½ ~ b. A Hero of Our Time ****½ ~ c. The Brothers Karamazov **** ~ d. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf *** ~ e. The House of the Dead ***½ 3. ...

#13: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Why I Chose It: Found it in a podcast through Librivox and absolutely loved the movie. Still a great story and probably one of my absolute favorite Jane Austen novels right up with Pride and Prejudice. The whole time I couldn't help picturing the ...

... is an effort on the part of one novelist to answer those riddles Tolstoy posed just a year or two earlier in War and Peace. The two novels have often been compared; both are the products of minds unwilling to rest content with the usual intellectual categories... (Eliot's) aim, ...

I'm reading War and peace and Middlemarch (both in Norwegian)

... a bit of a slog. The writing is very heavy handed and I find that I read it slower then I would like. I expected that with War and Peace, but with that one my eyes just fly across the page. Once I get used to her style though I am sure that my reading pace will increase.

... over at best. I'm familiar with most of these tales so it was more a quick refresh than anything else. 68. (97) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (1358pp) I finally finished it. I must admit that I just raced through the later part (once the second war with Napoleon started) once it had ...

I'm so pleased to see Middlemarch is the pick. I LOVE this book. I just finished rereading War and Peace - though have been less successful at finding my way around the discussion threads as yet. I hope to master that before the discussion gets too far ahead of me, and I can move out of lurking ...