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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
The characters are the most vividly realized of any I've ever read. I also liked the battle scenes. I even like the essays they often take out or put in an appendix. I ate it up. It's not a tough read, just very long. Anna Karenina was great too, maybe more sophisticated in a way, but still I like War and Peace better. Since I read War and Peace I've re-read passages for years. You may want to start with some of Tolstoy's shorter novels like Hadji Muhrad, The Cossacks, or The Kreutzer Sonata.
I think the Russian novelists get religion about right (more so Tolstoy than Dostoyevsky).
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Thanks much appreciated.
The description of the murders and the emotions right after in Crime and Punishment creeped me out. I thought that only a man who had commited a murder could have described it so vividly. It was the 300 pages after that ruined it for me.