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nahlareadss 's review for:
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Well well well,
It is Tolstoy so it cannot get anything lower than 4 stars.
The writing style as per usual is magistral, powerful and cinema like. I loved some of the war parts that happened in nature and all the nice oppositions and contrasts that came with it. However I need to say it this is is far too long ! ( I can’t believe Tolstoy wrote 9 drafts of this ! 9!!)
Some people described this as the ultimate book about humanity because it dealt with all the emotions humans can have ( and I agree I mean with 1300 pages the author had time to go through all the emotions )
Of course I was delighted to read about the Russian high society once again and all their tumultuous relationships. I loved the ending and how the couples kept changing ( an ancient love island if you ask me )
If someone is interested in reading Tolstoy I was still advise to read Anna Kerennina first as I believe it is his best work.
This doesn’t read like a novel but rather a fictional historical chronicles where the moral is we can never define history or try to argument history we can only imagine what might have happen. Tolstoy makes it his mission to remind us that there are forces stronger than us and it is pointless for us, little humans, to try to think our choices matter much in the grand scheme of things.
Also I loved Pierre and Alexei the most !
It is Tolstoy so it cannot get anything lower than 4 stars.
The writing style as per usual is magistral, powerful and cinema like. I loved some of the war parts that happened in nature and all the nice oppositions and contrasts that came with it. However I need to say it this is is far too long ! ( I can’t believe Tolstoy wrote 9 drafts of this ! 9!!)
Some people described this as the ultimate book about humanity because it dealt with all the emotions humans can have ( and I agree I mean with 1300 pages the author had time to go through all the emotions )
Of course I was delighted to read about the Russian high society once again and all their tumultuous relationships. I loved the ending and how the couples kept changing ( an ancient love island if you ask me )
If someone is interested in reading Tolstoy I was still advise to read Anna Kerennina first as I believe it is his best work.
This doesn’t read like a novel but rather a fictional historical chronicles where the moral is we can never define history or try to argument history we can only imagine what might have happen. Tolstoy makes it his mission to remind us that there are forces stronger than us and it is pointless for us, little humans, to try to think our choices matter much in the grand scheme of things.
Also I loved Pierre and Alexei the most !