One of the greatest books...no doubt

[Haq Yunus]

all the drama aside, all the characters and story aside....(for that will be extremely complex) ....

this book can just be revered only for its scale and magnitude and how Tolstoy kept the whole structure of the book in place....and kept it coherent.....

oh my God the intricacies, the detail and the breadth and vastness of the book and its material is just amazing...Tolstoy was pure genious....




P.S. and people (as in the last post) who are comparing (or even think of the comparison) Da Vinci Code and A Beautiful Mind to War & Peace amaze me too :brow:

[Miss Darcy]

Agreed. I read this book at thirteen, and enjoyed it immensely. The descriptions, the plot, the action, the imagination, the realism, the depth, the philosophy...all of these make it a brilliant book. And of course, as you said, the vastness of it. :D

Poor Sonya...

Tolstoy actually became something of a sage in his later life...he even looked back at his life as a "waste" despite War and Peace and Anna Karenina. He felt that society was immoral and pretentious. Really, this comes up quite a bit in his books.

Darcy

P.S. I never thought of comparing them either...never even thought of thinking of comparing them...even though I haven't read either Da Vinci or A Beautiful Mind I can pretty surely say that I think they can bear no comparison whatsoever to a work like War and Peace. (Sorry to anyone who thinks they can)

[Haq Yunus]

thanks miss darcy for the reply....the comment about the inane comparison was for the post just before mine on the War and Peace main page. That person first of all found this book boring and secondly committed the sacrilege :nod: of comparing it to transient commercial fluff like da vinci code et al.

[Kafka]

:banana: Can you explain and discuss in detail the fascination in this novel? :banana:

:thumbs_up Thank you! :thumbs_up


He felt that society was immoral and pretentious. :thumbs_up I totally agree with him! :thumbs_up

I have read the "Da Vinci Code" - but I just do not think it is a work of literature, even though it is suspencefully crafted and beautifully written. I just see it more as entertainment.

[Boris239]

yep, he probably didn't think much of the society and althogh I agree, I think that leaving your family in the end of your life to leave with peasants is a bit too much( that what Tolstoy did).

[Mathews12]

War and Peace is without a doubt the Greatest Book Of All Time. I haven't read Anna Karenina yet, how does it compare? Is it basically the Peace parts of War and Peace? (Which happen to be my favourite parts)

oh and whoever compared the Da Vinci Code with War and Peace doesn't deserve oxygen.

[bazarov]

War and Peace is without a doubt the Greatest Book Of All Time. I haven't read Anna Karenina yet, how does it compare? Is it basically the Peace parts of War and Peace? (Which happen to be my favourite parts)

Yes, something like that. To be honest, I enjoyed more in Anna Karenina.


oh and whoever compared the Da Vinci Code with War and Peace doesn't deserve oxygen.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[clytzerain]

Yep??