A review by clay1st
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

3.0

I fell in love with this book in the first few chapters. The flowing conversational style of writing, the gossip, folly and humanity on display. Sadly the excitement of this love didn't last long. The middle sections of the book were enjoyable but not enthralling as it settled into a somewhat predictable rhythm of 'unconventional' courtship and Russian society. By the end of the book I was bored and the moralistic aspect of the narrative I found utterly tiresome... perhaps this progression into tedium is itself allegorical?