NSR: Literature thread

Do you guys have any opinions on this ?

http://www.onlineshakespeare.com/whowrote.htm

 

Dni Turbinix was Stalin's favorite play - he saw it many times. Its arguably what saved Bulgakov from the purges.

 

Is "War + Peace" worth reading? Is it really worth taking the time?
Do Russians still rank it as a novel?

I have only read 3 famous Russian novels:
-Crime + Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Fathers + Sons by Ivan Turgenev
-The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have taken Russian/Soviet history during my Bachelor's Degree and having grown up in the 1980s with the Cold War; Russia has been a mystery and intrigued me.

Thanks.

 

Maybe I didn't word it properly, forgive me. Is "War + Peace" still highly regarded and promoted as THE Russian novel. I have been told "War + Peace" is THE novel. I was curious if, anyone in this forum had read "War + Peace"?

I, only raise this question because everyone I know who reads has heard of "War + Peace", but I have only met 1 person who has ever actually read it, my Russian/Soviet History Professor. He has been to RUS/USSR over 15 times; he is not of Russian decent, but from Minneapolis and took the Russian language and was just intrigued.

 

Forgive me, I merely glanced over the previous pages.

 

I have started reading it multiple times. Who knows, one day I might even finish it.

 

LOL, I'm with you. I have picked up and began it 3 times in the last 15 years.

 

I made it through 800 pages of Moby Dick, which was in some ways worth it. I guess War and Peace would be the Mount Everest of literature and maybe Moby Dick was just Denali.

 

I heard from a good friend, fellow bookworm, and magazine editor that Moby Dick is great!

 

It is like climbing a mountain, long and painful but rewarding at the end.

 

Heard Moby dick is extremly overrated. Isn't War and Peace more like a compilation of novels than one whole novel ? I know Tolstoy didn't consider to be one.

 

At the risk of derailing another thread, where did you hear that?

 

What the first or last part ? I think you mean Moby Dick. I heard it was boring as hell from my high school teacher, yes I remember things from a long time ago. He said exactly what you describe basically, it's mainly a whole lot of nothing. It doesn't matter to me, I'm not going to read it.

Which kind of makes my comment pointless and irrelevant, I like to read my own words.

 

In all honesty, I read simply to do it.

 

That doesn't surprise me.

You guys are complete and total geeks...who also happen to love sports lol.

 

What do you mean ?

 

About what ?

 

A long time ago? You're what, in your 20s? FFS.