What makes people think this book is so good? I'm about

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2016-10-04 20:35:29 Post No. 8583734
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 20:35:29 Post No. 8583734 [Report]

What makes people think this book is so good? I'm about 200 pages in, and though I admire Tolstoy's observational skills, and his way of creating very realistic scenes, there's not much else of merit that I can find in the book. Why do people say Tolstoy is up there with Shakespeare? His command of prose isn't even all that incredible, besides the convincing way he describes things. Though he makes the characters very lifelike, I can't help but think that there is a missing dimension to them. Can someone help explain this dude to me because I'm sure my opinion doesn't outweigh the much more informed opinion of scholars. I'm reading the Maude translation, not pic related.

Anonymous 2016-10-04 20:41:12 Post No.8583746
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 20:41:12 Post No.8583746 [Report]

Finish it first. Then form your shitty opinions

Anonymous 2016-10-04 20:43:15 Post No.8583756
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 20:43:15 Post No.8583756 [Report]

>>8583734
Who compared Tolstoy to Shakespeare? I've read War and Peace and most of Shakespeare's plays and unless you're rating art purely from the "morals" it conveys than no, in every single way Shakespeare is a better writer, though Tolstoy is great.

Anonymous 2016-10-04 21:17:49 Post No.8583856
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 21:17:49 Post No.8583856 [Report]

>>8583756
>in every single way
Harold, man. You gotta stop this shit

Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:12:10 Post No.8584355
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:12:10 Post No.8584355 [Report]

i read the opening 90 page tea party scene and decided life was too short

Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:22:46 Post No.8584396
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:22:46 Post No.8584396 [Report]

>>8584355
People like you are the ones that come to Tolstoy threads and say that he is a bad writer or worse than Dostoievsky when in fact you have never even read him. Anyway: try to keep reading until you reach the Dolokov drinking mad partie. You will love it from there on.

Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:24:34 Post No.8584404
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:24:34 Post No.8584404 [Report]

>>8584396

Is it okay if I think he's worse than Dostoevsky and I've read both?

Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:31:57 Post No.8584426
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:31:57 Post No.8584426 [Report]

>>8583734
tolstoy is for chicks. dostoevksy is for real men with large salty balls,

Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:56:14 Post No.8584507
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Anonymous 2016-10-04 23:56:14 Post No.8584507 [Report]

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