A review by pelks
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

4.0

I didn't think I would enjoy reading this book as much as I did, being as its title often serves as tongue-in-cheek shorthand for extremely long and obtuse books that no one has actually read. But this book was my companion for the last approximately four months, and I do feel enriched after having read it. The reason I read the book was on a friend's recommendation, because the book deals chiefly with man's significance and lack thereof, as well as concepts of power, free will, and even to some degree, finding meaning in life. The interpretations Tolstoy offers of these larger-than-life themes were often oddly comforting to me, and there were many moments where I felt the characters' arcs or the moments in the books could be applied to today, which is quite a feat for a book written in 1867.