01-05-2009, 10:48 AM
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Anna Karenina or War and Peace?
I just finished reading "A Hero of Our Time" by Mikhail Lermontov, and am ready to paddle through some Tolstoy. If I was to only read one book by him (which will hopefully not be the case), what should it be?
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01-05-2009, 02:54 PM
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Between the two options you pointed out...I prefer War & Peace. I've read it twice. Then again as a male I just couldn't get into the titular heroine Anna. You could try something shorter, maybe 'The Death of Ivan Illyich'.
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01-05-2009, 03:53 PM
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Anna Karenina - you will like it a lot and then you'll look for War and Peace. I am male and I really can't...spoiler
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01-06-2009, 06:22 PM
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Actually, I do believe it is two for War & Peace, and one for Anna Karenina.
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01-06-2009, 10:41 PM
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The former. I read both and loved them both. But I'll have to vote for "AnnaK".
--oh by the way-i'm male
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01-07-2009, 04:37 AM
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I think it doesn't really matter. They're both easy to get into, and when you've read one you'll probably want to read the other. Of course, War and Peace is BIG!
I think I like it better than Anna Karenina.
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01-07-2009, 04:11 PM
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Thanks everyone. I figured I couldn't go wrong either way, but was curious if there was an obvious choice. I guess not. I got War and Peace out of the library last night. I wonder how many times you can renew a book...
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01-10-2009, 04:16 PM
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I guess you will find out.
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