What Fiction are you reading this week, July 26, 2020?

[AmyStrange]

13. I Just finished War and Peace...

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It was over a thousand pages, but 900 of them were just page after page of long descriptive sentences, sometimes four or more paragraphs long, that described just one thing.

Don't get me wrong, I've read Dante's Commedia Divina from cover to cover, and almost all of Shakespeare's plays, and I have no problem with long descriptive sentences, but War and Peace felt like I was reading a book that wanted to be both a thesaurus and Wikipedia, all rolled into one.

I did get a laugh out of Tolstoy's description of the traditional Russian Dance (can't remember the name) and still enjoyed reading most of it, even though I had to watch the movie to make sure I interpreted it all correctly.

There are probably a lot of people out there who say they've read it, but never have, and now I can honestly say that I have.

Beatrice would've been proud!
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