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A review by anunusedmoniker
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4.0
There's a lot of stuff in here that I didn't expect, and the translation is nice, which is what I expect from Pevear and Volokhonsky. The footnotes are not only informative, but since they sometimes refer to Nabokov's lectures on Russian Literature, they bring up some really interesting uses of Russian. Otherwise...I won't give away any spoilers - for the exact reason that this is one of those books that has been talked about endlessly. Anything unspoiled (unspoilered?) I'll leave alone.
On the other hand, I had to knock off a star since I got bored. There's about 50 pages that could be cut out of this book and everything would still be retained. I still managed to read it over five days, but if I had a working computer at home (read: a good distraction), it might have taken me several weeks.
On the other hand, I had to knock off a star since I got bored. There's about 50 pages that could be cut out of this book and everything would still be retained. I still managed to read it over five days, but if I had a working computer at home (read: a good distraction), it might have taken me several weeks.