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4.09 AVERAGE
4.09 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
challenging
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was like the terminator series )
Srsly; The first two volumes were great. It started a bit confusing as it took a few hundred pages to get accustomed to the cast. And then it started. The early campaigns, hot intrigues, affairs, all the colours of the court, the balls. It was robust, realistic, sometimes sarcastic, and not sugary or hyper-patriotic at all, which impressed me at first. The plot of Anatole-Dolokhov to kidnap Natasha was the novel's apogee for me. So I started nurturing really high hopes regarding the coming series..
But the rhythm broke down. Narrative went astray. At some point I found myself wondering were did all the charm of the novel go. It seemed I had switched to an early socialist propaganda. The long waited war of 1812 become a long introduction into the life and ideas of peasantry and workers put in the mouth of Platon Karataev and brainwashed thoughts of Pierre. And the once vivid story nearly died and smoked through the rest of the book (some other 800p). tl;dr
Just kidding. I read it till the end. And lo, a hundred pages long epilogue. The game wasn't lost, I hoped to get payed-off for my patience. Alas, what I got was irony. What I felt proud of in the beginning was wasted altogether. It was a long effeminated happy-end.
So was that enough. nope. I got yet another second epilogue of pure scholasticism.
Here's what I wrote to a friend when I finished it.
'''
It was like a 4 season long series. It started great. It hit the top in the end of the second season. Everyone waited what's gonna be next. Then suddenly the playwright changed and the audience got disappointed. Actors started leaving the show, so the director should kill them. The final episodes were simply a long happy end. But they still hadn't met the contract terms. So they extended the movie with a long epilogue of the most boring philosophic monologue, one I'd have myself in an armchair or tell a friend when drunk but definitely not put in da book.
It seems Leo was taken by the aliens in the middle of the book).
'''
So what's the bottom line/
Respect your reader Leo. Don't teach them how to live.
And also respect yourself. Don't let yourself get boring. That's the last thing people tolerate.
Srsly; The first two volumes were great. It started a bit confusing as it took a few hundred pages to get accustomed to the cast. And then it started. The early campaigns, hot intrigues, affairs, all the colours of the court, the balls. It was robust, realistic, sometimes sarcastic, and not sugary or hyper-patriotic at all, which impressed me at first. The plot of Anatole-Dolokhov to kidnap Natasha was the novel's apogee for me. So I started nurturing really high hopes regarding the coming series..
But the rhythm broke down. Narrative went astray. At some point I found myself wondering were did all the charm of the novel go. It seemed I had switched to an early socialist propaganda. The long waited war of 1812 become a long introduction into the life and ideas of peasantry and workers put in the mouth of Platon Karataev and brainwashed thoughts of Pierre. And the once vivid story nearly died and smoked through the rest of the book (some other 800p). tl;dr
Just kidding. I read it till the end. And lo, a hundred pages long epilogue. The game wasn't lost, I hoped to get payed-off for my patience. Alas, what I got was irony. What I felt proud of in the beginning was wasted altogether. It was a long effeminated happy-end.
So was that enough. nope. I got yet another second epilogue of pure scholasticism.
Here's what I wrote to a friend when I finished it.
'''
It was like a 4 season long series. It started great. It hit the top in the end of the second season. Everyone waited what's gonna be next. Then suddenly the playwright changed and the audience got disappointed. Actors started leaving the show, so the director should kill them. The final episodes were simply a long happy end. But they still hadn't met the contract terms. So they extended the movie with a long epilogue of the most boring philosophic monologue, one I'd have myself in an armchair or tell a friend when drunk but definitely not put in da book.
It seems Leo was taken by the aliens in the middle of the book).
'''
So what's the bottom line/
Respect your reader Leo. Don't teach them how to live.
And also respect yourself. Don't let yourself get boring. That's the last thing people tolerate.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I DID IT!
Honestly, War and Peace isn't that hard to read. It's just reeeally, reeeeally long.
I liked how the book took place over the course of fifteen years, so it really showed how actions are connected and how history doesn't end, it just keeps going on. I also liked Prince Andrey and his inner conflict. The second epilogue was also really interesting because it was trying to ask and answer the question "What is Power?"
I didn't like how long it was. I don't think it's worth reading unless you really, really want to. I would recommend Crime and Punishment over War and Peace.
I think Tolstoy should have just written a couple of novels for his stories and several essays for his philosophy, instead of trying to combine them in the world's longest book. War and Peace is at the same time a romance, a drama, a history, a philosophical treatise, and a lesson in patience. That's no necessarily a good thing.
Honestly, War and Peace isn't that hard to read. It's just reeeally, reeeeally long.
I liked how the book took place over the course of fifteen years, so it really showed how actions are connected and how history doesn't end, it just keeps going on. I also liked Prince Andrey and his inner conflict. The second epilogue was also really interesting because it was trying to ask and answer the question "What is Power?"
I didn't like how long it was. I don't think it's worth reading unless you really, really want to. I would recommend Crime and Punishment over War and Peace.
I think Tolstoy should have just written a couple of novels for his stories and several essays for his philosophy, instead of trying to combine them in the world's longest book. War and Peace is at the same time a romance, a drama, a history, a philosophical treatise, and a lesson in patience. That's no necessarily a good thing.
challenging
slow-paced
slow-paced
forever raging for natasha. from the young lively girl to a “slave to her husband.” tolstoy i am angry
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I can’t say that I’ve truly read war and peace, but even this abridged version has resonated so deeply. The characters feel so incredibly real and deep, provoking a sense of sonder that pervades my own life. That each character and each person lives a life as vivid and complex as my own, which I had always acknowledged cerebrally, is evoked through this amazing novel. The grandiosity of the napoleonic war, figures like the Tsar, Napoleon, and Kutuzov, hold so much less importance than friends, family, and the minutia of one’s day to day. I will be so glad to eventually read the real thing.