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الطفولة والصبا والشباب
by ليو تولستوي, Leo Tolstoy
I'm so sorry Tolstoy
I read this as the first book as part of a four year long book club which aims to read the whole works of both Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy. I powered through this because of that fact, but in the future, I'm keeping to my usual ways of DNFing if I don't like the book. I know my reading tastes and I shouldn't doubt that.
This work seemed like something that should have stayed as a writing experiment, it should have stayed in the drafts. What was the point of this? At the end it hints at a fourth movement, 'manhood.' If this would have happened it would be easy to see the purpose- a sweeping novel accounting someone's whole life and how little moments impact them all throughout. However, this obviously did not happen.
I had absolutely no interest in this. Not even for the fact it was written by Tolstoy, as it felt unfinished. There were chapters and chapters of mediocracy for one paragraph of good, Tolstoy-like writing, which was frustrating to say the least.
Anyways, this book is rated really high, but I'm not sure who I'd recommend it to and I'm not sure if I'd even recommend it to a Tolstoy fan.
I read this as the first book as part of a four year long book club which aims to read the whole works of both Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy. I powered through this because of that fact, but in the future, I'm keeping to my usual ways of DNFing if I don't like the book. I know my reading tastes and I shouldn't doubt that.
This work seemed like something that should have stayed as a writing experiment, it should have stayed in the drafts. What was the point of this? At the end it hints at a fourth movement, 'manhood.' If this would have happened it would be easy to see the purpose- a sweeping novel accounting someone's whole life and how little moments impact them all throughout. However, this obviously did not happen.
I had absolutely no interest in this. Not even for the fact it was written by Tolstoy, as it felt unfinished. There were chapters and chapters of mediocracy for one paragraph of good, Tolstoy-like writing, which was frustrating to say the least.
Anyways, this book is rated really high, but I'm not sure who I'd recommend it to and I'm not sure if I'd even recommend it to a Tolstoy fan.