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Hello from Scotland
Hello just read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and decided to google for a book forum as I enjoyed it so much I thought there must be other folk out there who might want to rave along with me about this brilliant book. I turn forty this year and now i've read it I can't believe I didn't read it when I was in my teens as I've been a reader since I was old enough to read by myself.
Anyway I hope to find what i'm looking for here, ie some good intellectual discussion about books and the English language in general. Thanks
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Welcome to BT. I believe there is a thread somewhere around here on War & Peace. I think I'll go look and get back to you. I think if you poke around a bit you will find some very interesting discussions. If you like poetry, check out the Poetry Forum: Passion for Poetry.
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“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hahn
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Thanks that's the sort of warm welcome I really appreciate thank you very much.
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Welcome Eyebrowse! I love the name.
And I have enjoyed your posts so far. You gave good advice to a new members about reading historical fiction as a means to kill two birds with one stone. I definitely agree with you and appreciate you offering such sound advice.
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Welcome Eyebrowse! I love the name.
And I have enjoyed your posts so far. You gave good advice to a new members about reading historical fiction as a means to kill two birds with one stone. I definitely agree with you and appreciate you offering such sound advice.
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Hi and Welcome! Love the name you chose....Eyebrowse.
Thanks for the words of welcome
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Eyebrowse wrote:
Hello just read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and decided to google for a book forum as I enjoyed it so much I thought there must be other folk out there who might want to rave along with me about this brilliant book. I turn forty this year and now i've read it I can't believe I didn't read it when I was in my teens as I've been a reader since I was old enough to read by myself.
Hello and welcome Eyebrowse!
I am in my forties, and I have just finished "War and Peace", and I have asked myself the same question, why did I wait so long to read it. I also fell in love with it. I think many people may be afraid of the length, but I found it to be a true page turner. Tolstoy's passion for his country and the people of Russia is overwhelming. I'm actually looking forward to reading it again.
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Welcome! I just read Anna Karenina ( I thought it was perhaps an easier one to start with ) and absolutely loved it! I am hoping to read War and Peace soon, but I sometimes need to take a break from the Russians before starting up another one. I am 19, but I think there is a benefit to reading it when you are more mature, there are probably a lot of things you get out of it that I don't because you know so much more about the world.
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Welcome! I just read Anna Karenina ( I thought it was perhaps an easier one to start with ) and absolutely loved it! I am hoping to read War and Peace soon, but I sometimes need to take a break from the Russians before starting up another one. I am 19, but I think there is a benefit to reading it when you are more mature, there are probably a lot of things you get out of it that I don't because you know so much more about the world.
Lol, thanks for saying that but I've a long way to go before I'd call myself mature and I don't know that much about the world as I've spent most of my life inside the pages of books I always meant to read all of his books (to be well read whatever that means) but never had the patience needed for them at 19 or much of my twenties, so your ahead of me on that one. I have a copy of The Cossack now so I'll read Anna Karenina after that probably.
The copy of War and Peace I just read had this epilogue at the end of the story, it's not in every edition of War and Peace but it's pretty damn deep and bangs on about free will versus necessity and boy let me tell you those last thirty or so pages were the toughest set of mental gymnastics I've read in my life to date. No wonder he is considered a great man himself. I think I really learnt something worth knowing. More than I learnt through reading the actual book which was more a pleasure than anything else.
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Eyebrowse wrote:
Hello just read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and decided to google for a book forum as I enjoyed it so much I thought there must be other folk out there who might want to rave along with me about this brilliant book. I turn forty this year and now i've read it I can't believe I didn't read it when I was in my teens as I've been a reader since I was old enough to read by myself.
Hello and welcome Eyebrowse!
I am in my forties, and I have just finished "War and Peace", and I have asked myself the same question, why did I wait so long to read it. I also fell in love with it. I think many people may be afraid of the length, but I found it to be a true page turner. Tolstoy's passion for his country and the people of Russia is overwhelming. I'm actually looking forward to reading it again.
Hello to you too,and thanks. I probably should read it again myself but in the future as I need time to let the story settle in my subconcious now. It is a page turner and nothing to be afraid of. I think a lot of people are afraid to read such a long book as they might feel they have failed intellectually in some way if they don't enjoy it or can't finish it. Nothing could be further from the truth of course. They just weren't ready for it like I wasn't or it wasn't to their taste.
My favourite character in the book was Pierre. Who was yours ? Poor Helene I felt sorry for her as she was a victim of her own circumstances I feel. Though I'm not saying how her story went or what those circumstances were. You will just have to read it for yourselves if you feel you want to. It would be criminal for me to say and spoil anyone's potential enjoyment of this fantastic book.
Tolstoy himself was quite the man wasn't he ? Thirteen kids he fathered. How did he find the time to write those books Lol. I respected him even more when I found that out as I have none and it takes me forever to write a page or two in my spare time.
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Hello eyebrowse Based on your love of War & Peace can I recommend Simon Scarrow's Wellington/Napoleon series of historical fiction. It is brilliant! Best Darren www.darrenhumby.com
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Hello eyebrowse Based on your love of War & Peace can I recommend Simon Scarrow's Wellington/Napoleon series of historical fiction. It is brilliant! Best Darren http://www.darrenhumby.com
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