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Well I finally buckled down and took on War and Peace. It was a surprisingly easy read. The story is very interesting. The last 50 pages dragged on as Tolstoy repeats his theories on war over and over.
Happy to have this one under my belt.
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How I did it: Pace yourself, it may take a while but it was worth it. Tolstoy is not overly wordy in this novel. It is 1500 pages because the story is long. It is a rather easy and very enjoyable read. Read how I did it…
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Not really a list I have been working on aggressively, but it overlaps heavy with some others. There are definitely some great books I look forward to reading. So far I have read the following(32):
3. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
10. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
14. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
16. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
17. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
18. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
20. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
24. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
27. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
29. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
31. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
33. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
34. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
36. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
38. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
39. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
47. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
48. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. The Trial by Franz Kafka
52. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
53. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
59. 1984 by George Orwell
61. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
63. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
66. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
68. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
69. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
71. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
73. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
74. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
76. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I did a couple of large novels this year Brothers Karamozov, Atlas Shrugged. Now I finally got the nerve up to take on War and Peace. I was more intimidated by its reputation and the 500 characters than the gross volume of the book itself. I am now over the 200 page mark (1500 total); I am truly enjoying the book and feel I am past the point of no return. I hope to complete this within 2 months.
