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A review by kezee
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
5.0
For me this novel started out very plot driven - I felt like I read the first half just to see what would happen next. Then, for 100 pages or so, I was kind of bored. I can say that, right? Even though I gave it 5 stars? Anyway, the last bit was so great. I realized I don't really like using the word "timeless" but it's entirely applicable to this novel. Anna's psychological demise is comparable to a high school drama and Levin's search for faith and meaning in the world is so well-described I feel like every story I've ever read is based on it. The back of my copy of this book says "...the world's greatest novel..." huh.
"Deliberation led to doubts and prevented him from seeing what he ought and ought not to do. But when he did not think, but just lived, he never ceased to be aware of the presence in his soul of an infallible judge who decided which of two possible courses of action was the better and which the worse, and instantly let him know if he did what he should not."
Totally.
"Deliberation led to doubts and prevented him from seeing what he ought and ought not to do. But when he did not think, but just lived, he never ceased to be aware of the presence in his soul of an infallible judge who decided which of two possible courses of action was the better and which the worse, and instantly let him know if he did what he should not."
Totally.