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War and Peace Crossboard Reading Group 2016-12-10 06:23:14 Post No. 8824953
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I was gonna re-read W&P over Christmas, and I’d been thinking about making a thread about it to sync up with anyone on the board who’s doing the same, when I had the idea that we could open up the reading group to /his/ if anyone over there is interested in joining in, considering the central theme of the book is /his/tory.
Objectively 10/10 Reasons for joining this reading group:
>W&P is objectively the greatest novel ever written (inb4 Tolstoy said it wasn’t a novel; there’s cultural reasons for that)
>It’s the absolute 10/10 winter book for staying inside with a hot mug of something, by the frosted window-pane, with the snow falling.
>/lit/’s official ideology (dubs-decided) is Tolstoian Christian Anarchism, so you gotta brush up on your Tolstoy guys, or you’re gonna get exiled
>It’s the greatest novel ever written
>It’s not a difficult meme-book, more than five people will make it to the end of the book without giving up.
>It’s the greatest novel ever written
Reasons for doing it cross-board w/ /his/:
>Why not?
>They probably know about Napoleon and dates and shit
>There are a huge number of cross-posters anyway, so it’d be pretty natural.
>It’s the greatest novel ever written and why not?
I guess we’d alternate it, a thread on /lit/, then the next thread on /his/, and the discussion would be a variety of discussion about the book, and discussion about the context it engages. If you’re like me and you don’t know a whole lot about that context then that probably sounds pretty good (don’t lie anon, you know you want to have /his/-autists tell you about the midget-man’s motivations invading Russia). Who’s up for it? If you don't think it could work we could just do a plain reading group for it, just on /lit/.
Reply with “Yeah anon, that sounds like a swell plan” or Pierre will tie your mother to the back of a bear and throw her into a river tonight
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selfish bump
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>>8824953
I'd like to, but I'm barely 200 pages into The Idiot.
When do you plan in starting?
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>>8824953
Yeah anon, that sounds like a swell plan
I read anna karenina back in the day, why not
What translation?
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>>8825031
I'm very easygoing, just some time over Christmas. Provisionally, I was going to suggest starting next weekend.
>>8825032
My translation is the Maude translation; that's the one I've seen most widely recommended, since they knew Tolstoy personally and he approved the translation. (I've got the Oxford World's Classics version if we're looking for a standardized text.)
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>>8824953
>>W&P is objectively the greatest novel ever written (inb4 Tolstoy said it wasn’t a novel; there’s cultural reasons for that)
Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's greatest work you pleb.
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>>8825074
lel
Anna Karenina
>811 pages
War and Peace
>like a billion pages
If it's so much better why's it got fewer pages hmm
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>>8825089
low quality bait
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>>8825095
It's not really bait
It's just a joke. A tongue-in-cheek lil jest
Are you okay anon?
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>>8825105
I'm on 4chan do you think I'm okay?
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>>8825106I know exactly what you mean
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>>8824953
Do people think fifty pages a day would be a reasonable expectation for reading W&P? We want to be moving fairly swiftly so folk don't lost interest
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>>8825106
Fuck
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Bump and prospective schedule I made. Pretty malleable at this point but I think the 25-day plan is pretty reasonable
Reply faggots
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>>8825444
I've already read the book but don't expect it to work, people tried doing "book clubs" here and on Goodreads too but most of /lit/ users don't even read so they just leave after the initial enthusiasm, if they have any in the first place.
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I'm up for it
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>>8825527
To be fair, the kinds of books /lit/ tends to do book clubs for are dense arcane Pomo tomes so quite a lot of that dropout can be attributed to people realising they can't hack the difficulty of the texts. Whereas literally anyone can read war and peace.
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>>8825444
Don't go by page numbers, but by chapters, since there are different versions. With Tolstoy, this will be a cinch due to his short-ass chapters basically being page numbers.
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huh, I just finished it. Can't say it's the best novel ever, but it was nice. Good luck and have fun
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>>8825089
Hello Anon, glad you still enjoy my Cortazar image from the RAYUELA thread I started earlier this week. How have you been?
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Should I make a thread on /his/ or just leave it?
>>8825602
There's no real science to the way I've divided it up, just roughly 50 pages a day in my edition, rounded up to the nearest chapter, with the occasional push to finish a section. Best thing to do would just be to divide your edition by 25 and use that as a guideline. I'll try and produce a version using chapters if this takes off though, since it would make things easier, it's just late where I am and I can't be fucked.
>>8826013
Yeah man, I'm doing good. I feel kind of bad using the ayy lmao man's picture since I've never read any of his stuff, but hey, it's /lit/ and who reads?
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>>8825444
>Day 1
whens that?
also I agree with going by chapter instead of page number
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>>8826136
I was thinking of starting next weekend, so I guess that'd be a thread on Saturday night for me in the UK, so you can check how that's gonna work based on your timezone.
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I'm just done watching the 1966 film adaptation. It's really outstanding and surprisingly doesn't look date.
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>>8826156
Next weekend sounds good!
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I would be down for it but I'm already 800 pages in
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>>8826247
Eh, well feel free to chip into the threads anywayso long as you use spoiler tags
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