ethanjpatton 's review for:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

5.0

challenging emotional reflective

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I found myself disagreeing with a lot of Tolstoy’s assertions about the nature of free will and necessity at the end. The actual story of the book though is fantastic. It took me 13 months to read this, but that felt appropriate given the span of these characters’ lives we experience in the story. Life often felt both full and empty in turns while reading, meaningful and frivolous.