I just decided that one of my "reading" goals for the year is to start & finish War & Peace. Has anyone read this book all the way through? I started it a few months ago and didn't finish it.
I've read God knows how many books (4 or 5 a week since the age of 4, and I'm now 59--get your calculator, figure it out), but I've never read this. I think I started reading an abridged version, but lost interest. I've read, and enjoyed, Turgenev, Dostoevsky (sp.), Gogol and Gorky, but I have BIG trouble keeping all those Russian names sorted out (and, they have numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, bastard children,, etc., all with 20 constantant and weird verb names). What the fuck! I'm just a drunken Irishman! Read "Dead Souls", by Gogol. Or, "Diary of a Sportsman", by Turgenev. Or, read MY novel, "A Haven From Violence", available through Amazon.com. By, Burl N. Corbett, of course.
I do have trouble with all the Russian names as well... maybe I need to see if there are Cliff Notes for this book to have along side while i'm reading!
If your body is "a temple", don't use CLIFF NOTES-- you'll go to Hell for laziness. Signed, THE BIG KATUNA!
I would like to take every album ever pressed by YES, put them in a giant barrel along with every album pressed by KANSAS and JETHRO TULL and send them over Niagera Falls, then shoot the shards, if any, with heat-seeking missiles. If I ever hear CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON or LOCOMOTIVE BREATH again, I will committ sepuku with a rusty pair of scissors. ARGHHHHHHH!
...Anywho, you can get charts of Russian names. In Russia, your middle name is always your father's first name with an appropriate gender suffic at the end. For girls, it's '-evna', and for boys it's '-vich'. When a woman is married, she takes her husband's last name and adds 'skaya'/'skaia' to the end. There are so many others, and a simple change of a suffix can indicate many different meanings. I <3 Russia.
Hold up, comparing Yes to kansas? and jethro tull? That is just about as DUMB as anyone in the world can be. I have never met someone this confusing before. Maybe we should just throw you into a barrel with kansas and jethro tull albums and blow you up.
I've read Anna Karenina, and am thinking of War and Peace. My friend read it, and she swears by it, so I'm hoping it'll be good. I'd borrow it off her, but she keeps her books too nice, i'd destroy it or something (OH NO, THERES A CREASE IN THE SPINE!!!) She said parts of it were good, but parts of it were a bit tedious. (Lets keep Jethro Tull! Please!)
war and peace i read in high school.the long chapters on history really helped me alot because all of it was new to me.i think i was taking world history that year so it was good.my senior year the russian film was released.it won best foreign film that year.
