I know I haven't posted in forever. I've been busy reading War and Peace. Yeah, it took me that long. It's like the never-ending story, only not as good. I truly do not recommend anyone read this book.
It did have it's good parts in the "Peace." There were some good dramatic, romance storylines. However they did go on too long. After the boy gets the girl (or the old man gets the girl in this case) no one wants to read about their domestic squabbles over him taking too many business trips or her spoiling the children. I guess if you cut 95% of this book, it could have been a pleasant read.
But, unfortunately, this story is mostly "War." In fact, most of the second half of the book is not a description of the war, but Tolstoy's philosophy of war. His thesis seemed to be that Napoleon nor any other man could not be blamed for the war, and the Russian commander-in-chief nor any other man could not be given the credit for victory. His main purpose in writing appeared to be to persuade his audience of predestination. Thus it became quite tedious. And tedious becomes almost deathly mind-numbing at 360 chapters. I am not kidding: 360 chapters!
So I highly recommend that you never read this book.
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