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A review by mint_renegade
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
in short summary, angela basset did the thing; viola davis, my woman king.
in longer summary, my opinions on this book are too complicated to articulate. i'd try and say something about the characters and their struggles being so well written that its difficult to accept that the account is fictional, but who has the time? i hated anna so much that she's become a beloved character...no, i will not explain myself. oblonsky, try as the world might to show him the error of his ways, wound up being the same character on page 900 as he was on 1. and that, the development of a character through stagnation is the kind of non-development i can get behind. he truly gave us nothing. levin's search for a step-by-step guide book on how to live, his sticky melancholy, his fucking farm, his pursuit of lofty scholarship, his existential dread and discovery of goodness, did i mention the fucking farm? i don't know where i'm going with this.
part 5, chapter 20 was titled DEATH and i drew green hearts around it, just because.
i read it. i may be glad that i did, it's difficult to say either way. on to better and darker books, that do not involve tolstoy.
in longer summary, my opinions on this book are too complicated to articulate. i'd try and say something about the characters and their struggles being so well written that its difficult to accept that the account is fictional, but who has the time? i hated anna so much that she's become a beloved character...no, i will not explain myself. oblonsky, try as the world might to show him the error of his ways, wound up being the same character on page 900 as he was on 1. and that, the development of a character through stagnation is the kind of non-development i can get behind. he truly gave us nothing. levin's search for a step-by-step guide book on how to live, his sticky melancholy, his fucking farm, his pursuit of lofty scholarship, his existential dread and discovery of goodness, did i mention the fucking farm? i don't know where i'm going with this.
part 5, chapter 20 was titled DEATH and i drew green hearts around it, just because.
i read it. i may be glad that i did, it's difficult to say either way. on to better and darker books, that do not involve tolstoy.