I love Russian literature. A couple of years ago, I read Tolstoy's War and Peace for the fun of it.
Today, I'd like to announce that I have finished Anna Karenina, just about eleven months after I started it. It is only 800 and some-odd pages; but for some reason, it took me about seven-eight months longer to finish it than to finish War and Peace.
Whatever. I finished it today. And now I must be off, in search of another ridiculously long book to read in between all my other, shorter books. I'm thinking about Tristram Shandy. Any other suggestions?
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Did you like both of them? I've been thinking I should read those, but I want to know if people actually ENJOY them in addition to feeling like they ought to read them. :-)
I did enjoy them. I kept reading War and Peace just to see what happened (though I admit to skimming some bits toward the end).
I appreciate that Tolstoy can make such epic stories so accessible; the way he can get into characters' heads and yet make several pages of internal monologue interesting is unmatched by anything else I've ever read.
Ridiculously long books are great. I read Atlas Shrugged this summer and have The Brothers Karamazov waiting on my shelf.
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