A review by crankylibrarian
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

5.0

How to review one of the greatest novels ever written? All I can say is some classics are every bit as good as they're cracked up to be. What I didn't expect was the sudden flashes of ironic humor, e.g. "Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered". The insights into the emotions of a teenage girl at her first dance, a young soldier who idolizes his sovereign, an idealist leaping enthusiastically into every fad and growing disillusioned, a cynic disgusted with his life...until just before he loses it; these are what will stick with me.

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