[ SECRET POST #5829 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5829 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Back in my pretentious, I'm-reading-the-classics-so-I-can-say-I-have days (which are now bearing fruit it would seem), I made it through Ulysses, The Brothers Karamazov, Gravity's Rainbow, and Moby Dick, but I admit I stalled out on War And Peace. I'm not sure why really. It was easier reading that both Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow; the main challenge as I recall it was simply in keeping track of all the many characters, who were all referred to by different versions of their names and/or honorifics at different times. I think it really was just the sheer length of War And Peace that must have made me call it off. I'm a slow reader and I think ultimately I looked at the, like, 9/10ths of the novel before me, and the numerous hours of reading already behind me, and was like, nah.

Good luck to you. May the pages turn swiftly, and may every character being referred to in at least three different ways not be as confusing to you as it was to me. :P

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm listening to it as an audio book (which helps) and have open the TVtropes page so I know which 20 characters are important. My ears glaze over at the "War" bits but the "Peace" section is so up my historical romance loving alley its volunteering to shovel driveways.

But talking about it before I've finished I just hubris.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

but the "Peace" section is so up my historical romance loving alley its volunteering to shovel driveways.

Hee! War And Peace is the one where the young couple locate each other at the party and have a conversation in written code using just the first letters of words, and they're just so sweetly awed by their moment of galaxy brain connection, right? I did like that bit. Also, I distinctly recall there being a line, after infatuated dude realizes that his potential paramour has had to leave the party early without them seeing each other again, that's something like, "He felt abruptly that there was to be no more fun." That always stuck with me. I thought Tolstoy conveyed the experience of romantic infatuation between two nice, genuine people who just want to connect with each other very well.

Then again, it's possible what I've just described is actually from another Russian classic. I think it was from War And Peace, but I could be misremembering.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

You are stronger than me. I am Russian so all the names are just normal names, but I never could get through all the fucking French. And I supposed to read it at school. Thank gods of education for short version