war and peace

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

i finished it! 8 months, but i finished it!

i actually enjoyed it a lot. the characters are for the most part interesting, and those parts went quickly. the war-oriented parts are sometimes fascinating and sometimes quite boring. the worst thing though was the last 5% or so is all philosophy of history, and discussing to what we can attribute actions in history. he spends *way* too long on what historians are doing wrong and a comparatively short time on what he thinks is the correct way to analyze history. and then, after what seems like page after page of needless minutiae of his argument, there are large leaps of logic that i think are unfounded.

i don't intend to read this book again, but i definitely enjoyed it.

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