What should I expect of this?

>>9457977
shit smeared on pages after pages

Waifus

>>9457983
Maria <3

>>9457977
A soap opera.

Russian snobbery and bullying of Germans

The greatest novel ever written.

>>9457977
shitty translation

>>9458055
I just picked up Notes and they are the translators for that as well. I was told they were good, do you recommend other translators?

>>9458087
they are the best, ignore the obvious trolling.

>>9457977
Long, but well paced and epic in the truest sense. Also I want to get plastered with a bear.

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There's a controversial point where Tolstoy fucks his shit up senpai. You'll know it when you see it. Anna Karenin pisses all over it.

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>>9458004
Sums Russian literature up pretty accurate.

>>9458087
Revised Maude by Oxford is a lot better.

P&V's style is a little 'clunky'.

I have two copies of War and Peace - pic related and Maude, and Maude is a lot better.

>>9457977
Reams and reams of shitty little "characters" with their funny little quirks that make you go "I do that! Oh my gosh I do that too! He gets us, he really gets humanity" and then maybe three actually well-written characters.

>>9457977

1700 pages and no tits.

>>9458514
There are so many waifus what are you on about

Something 10x as long but 1/5 as good as Hadji Murat.

Nothing, my dude. Just dive in and enjoy it.

The first hundred pages or so might feel like a push if you're unfamiliar with Tolstoy but after that it becomes really enjoyable. You'll grow to understand and love all the characters like close friends.

Which translation should I cop

Cannot have a shitty cover (das right woodsworth I'm looking at you)

>>9458087
They are great. But their War and Peace has the restored French which ends up you reading a ton of translated French in the footnotes. I prefer the Maude translation that has the French translated right into the main work. Tolstoy himself approved of Maude's translation.

>>9457977

War and feels.

>what I read

war and peace

>what I expected

War, Russians, Napoleon, Aristocrats

>what I got

"...and ANOTHER reason historians are a bunch of cunts is...."