I'm reading the big one...

[Artguy]

Tolstoy ...War and Peace....all 1442 pages of it...weirdly enough I got 2 copies of it at xmas...and I didn't even ask for it....

[Arcadia]

I read it in a summer in the early nineties. I think it´s the longest novel I read. Good luck!!

[Artguy]

Damn I'm loving this book...story of Napoleon tramping on Eastern Europe and all these wealthy Russians off to glory only to feel the pain and drudgery of death...then back home parties and twisted family soap operas...never a dull word...

[stilltrucking]

That book kept me going the summer of 1962.

I lived it
threw myself in to it
it was the summer I learned
to give pounds and crowns and pennies
but not my heart
I was one and twenty when I read it
but it was too late.

By day I was a ditch digger
into the mindless manual work like Sisyphus on zen.
by night I was a Russian Nobleman

I think I saw the movie
Geraldine Chaplin?, Charlie's litttle girl
What a dish
Julie Christie too?

[stilltrucking]

God I hate that
wrong movie
Dr Z maybe I am thinking.


But I am sure about the novel,

IMDb: Doctor ZhivagoDirected by David Lean. With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin. Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political ...
wrote it.

Great summer, even with a broken heart it was sweet, thanks to War and Peace that kept me going through those lonely nights.