War and Peace

So I know you all on the edge of the last two months since I will be studying for social work tonight checking licenses , it seems the perfect time to put an end voltage.

After all my poignant and thoughtful suggestions below I mutilate my beautiful hardcover Pevear and Volokhonsky translation to safe underground tanks .... reader , I took him . All pages 1272nd Every day in five counties and three states for almost two months ....

So the burning question is on your mind : "Am I is risking misalignment and shoulder in the interests of preserving a pristine issue that inevitably to get in any case slammed redislocated , I take you through the battlefields and trenches around for what seems like an eternity , which is more important ? back of the book or my "

Bookster , I 'm here to this situation by the end ! Here's what you do: just a passionate exacto knife ( you could ask Cossacks to seek it for you) , and cut the " Epilogue " the last part of this great book. It will not hurt to do the book - the end is like an appendix ( and hey, what the heck to cut ) - because this part is not necessary , and in fact, even if it's only theoretically, 7 % of the book is this part actually responsible , at least 63 % of its weight . Then cut out this bitch and throw it out ! The vortex will thank you later.

Another advantage of getting the epilogue is to liberate that you avoid reading , what in theory, the most deadly boring and disappointing end to a large and beautifully readable book ever written. To be particularly difficult , double bed , I ask, that the glory of a great final novel is proportional to its length . I think it 's just, I was faithful and patient , and spent many hours reading the story of the author , and at the end I was rewarded for my courage with a glorious finale. That's always been my philosophy , anyway. Apparently , however, is not Tolstoy.

What is the philosophy of Tolstoy , you ask? In particular , what is your philosophy of history? Well, let me tell you ! Or rather , let me tell you. Because it is . Over and over again . And then . And in case you were interested and wanted to learn , he really is .... I tell you, and you always say .... and I tell you a little more more .... and a little more ".... no , let him finally now, in detail .

Yes , the perfect Tolstoy guest house that was almost two months on the couch and you're just happy as hell to do it , the time for a visit, because it's just a smart guy and an excellent and interesting and sincere . These story tellers ! Oh , sure, it is sometimes a bit " dull and flaky with his political ramblings , but the stuff is in place pretty much. So yes, it fixes story ideas that go well , think we , but it's a little strange that to repeat it and to the same points over and over again always him and the friend of your roommate or you classmate in the supermarket, or an old lady in waiting to catch the bus, explain again why you think that Napoleon is not large at all yes, it 's funny, but in the end Leo is just great , and you are excited to have - even for such an extended visit - because it really is so bright and clear and in gold really almost worth its weight .... you know, it's sad to leave , but his flight was late and you are happy , you can one night there but still is the night that suddenly decides to return home , full of cocaine. Leo goes for hours drinking all your expensive scotch and talk about your damn ear on his philosophy of history , which is really just do not care and will not leave and let you go to bed , you can continue to speak and it is annoying , and apparently think Stare interest signals catatonic removed because it just keeps going over and over again to explain - it does not stop ! It's almost like physically from this guy who you thought the best house guest was tortured in the world. And yes, if Leo finally left the next morning - watery and to be and still dazed tears , quite embarrassed - not sorry to see you go, you are really happy. And that's not to abort a boring night , two months after the good times you had together ? Of course it does not, and I remember him with affection and tell everyone who asks how nice it was when he left. But the night will be a special weight because he is the "last , and if you prefer to remember Leo, your wonderful guest, your condition does not completely from the memory of his stupid , selfish, rants Coca be tainted - from the night before for real left .

I mean, the rest of the book was absolutely fantastic ! As my Great Aunt Dot ( played twice) commented: " It is really difficult to read at all, there is a chapter on the war , then a chapter about peace, so it is never boring. " War and peace is very funny , particularly readable. Moreover, it is very instructive to have you learn more than you know always about the great Napoleon ! ( According to Tolstoy, was not that bad No, I mean really, it was not so great. . ) War and peace is given a great book because it has lots of bloody action and tons of romance, to check the secular history - and more in the opaque parts in which Tolstoy, can do as twelve pages of various general and strategies and XIX talk .

If it is higher than the standard value , my question is long book - great - well, that's what I call " Make Me Cry " I do not really think that the book is not so great if you . made me cry ( No, it does not work in the opposite direction - .. Just because a book makes me cry does not mean it 's great that I cried really stupid movie, and I will be regularly used every time when I read the newspaper that one of the reasons why I stopped crying . ) war and Peace has me like a colicky baby who was stabbed with a bayonet , three cry! time I will not say I was a little clouded or chokey - I mean, I cried, I cried and moaned , completely broken and I lost my shit on a very cathartic and soul - . ! Hooray heartbreaking I can not guarantee that war and peace will also make you cry, but I bet if you are prone to this sort of thing , you have a good shot .

GOD this book is good. You see, you really should skip the " Epilogue , because apart from being extremely annoying, but it is also very depressing ( so bad) , and beyond to make you vow never to marry , you might forget how amazing and the rest them What a great book and amazing holy shit I flipped now, and it is all new to me , it was totally 1868 the Wire : . ! . , if you really like the character development and plot , which takes place over a longer period , you should read this book seriously I do not know much about this book before I read it , but I think I remember someone - . Jane Smiley - . Posted going than war and peace I would not go with this (I'm not sure it would be ) , but it is on most of the things that are really important. If you are someone who thinks everything about life and death , you might like this book. Here is a passage of a character who is a prisoner of war barefoot over Russia in October :

Prisoner in the shed , [ he ] had learned not with the mind but with his whole being , his life, that man is created for happiness , that happiness in itself , in the satisfaction of needs of people and that all unhappiness does not come from a lack , but superfluous , but now in the last three weeks in March , he had learned a new and comforting truth - that he had learned that n ' there is nothing fearful in the world. He learned that since there is no situation in the world where a man can be happy and totally free , so it's a situation where you can be perfectly unhappy and unfree. He had learned that there is a limit to the suffering and the limits of freedom , and that these limits are very close, the man who suffers because a leaf is on the side in bed of roses, so much pain as now suffer the naked wet floor rests a hand on the other cold heated when it is used on your shoes narrow dancing has suffered so much as now, where he worked very bare (Shoes should be made of the time) , and his feet feet were covered with wounds. (P. 1060 )

I just think it's great. Perhaps it is not taken out of context .... In any case, because it is one of the best things about reading this so strange - Russia! 1812 ! OMFG! all so different ! - And what is the same. Nuance , specificity and instantly recognizable character here is pretty amazing . I know it sounds silly, but you really feel like you know these people , and in a sense it is the minor characters - Sonja , Anatole , Dolokhov ( my favorite! ) - What are so well drawn , and I go " , man , I know these people ! Woah ! "

I think with about the war , while reading this , because it's something I never done before. At first I was hoping that it would help me to understand why wars happen, but I did not. It could have been that Tolstoy tried to explain in his afterword , but I need that at this time I was not really listening to admit .

Anyway , I liked this book. It's long , however.