Vox Hunt: Summer Reading
Show us a book you feel like you should read, but just can't bring yourself to actually pick up.
I actually own a copy, which claims to be "the original version of Russia's most famous novel which never made it to publication in Tolstoy's lifetime. A closely guarded secret for a century and a half, this version -- with its different emphases and dialogue, and a new ending -- is essential reading for devotees of Tolstoy and new readers alike..."
More than once I've tried to read it. Yet each and every time I put it down after about 100 pages. It's baffling, really: I've read Le Comte de Monte Cristo so many times the copy is actually falling apart; yet War and Peace remains rather new looking.
Maybe Tolstoy is just not for me.
Comments
hmm haven't read war and peace yet.. but you made me curious as to why you have not finished it.... ^___^
urgh. the hollywood movie. it was blood curdlingly horrible, i was ready to explode.
war and peace is just...i don't know how to put it...too confusing? like after 100 pages i still had no idea as to who was who and so on... so i just gave up. it's no great mystery.