I am hating War & Peace.
It is so convoluted and the whole thing feels more like an endeavor in keeping track of names and making sense of the awkward language of what I have to assume is a lousy translation.
I'm only 200 pages in, more than two weeks after starting it; it's frustrating for me to not be able to get through a book faster, especially when reading it feels like such a chore. I'm not sure I can commit myself to reading the rest of the book, at least not without breaking up the arduousness of it with other, less brain-paining texts.
Not that I'm planning on filling my reading schedule with Danielle Steele or anything, but there are so many worthy books out there than I really want to indulge in it seems a shame to spend all my time trudging through something I'm not enjoying, or even retaining from one reading to the next. This has always been my struggle, though; not finishing a book I've started feels like failing and I don't "do" failing.
Anyone read War & Peace and want to tell me that it gets RIVETING by page 201?
What translation are you reading?
ReplyDeleteI am taking my library book back and buying my own copy. This is going to take forever, and I will also need to break it up with some other reading. Unfortunately, Zola's "Nana" does not seem to be a good intermission choice...I think I'm going Harry Potter #2.
Have you read Anna Karenina? That one took me an entire summer, and it got better (and easier to read) as it went along. I haven't tried War and Peace though.
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