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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.
