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Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:08:54 2018 No.11982512 [Reply] [Original]

Convince me to read it

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:09:22 2018 No.11982515 >>11982512 That's on you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:09:59 2018 No.11982522 File: 10 KB, 332x336, youbye.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] no. why don't you read it then convince us.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:11:08 2018 No.11982526 >>11982512 one of the best novels ever written

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:13:28 2018 No.11982539 >>11982526 Yeah okay but why is it one of the best?

Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:34:16 2018 No.11982624

>>11982539
Because it makes everything look so simple and beautiful while being presented in a seemingly effortless manner. It has a healing effect, you read 2 chapters and you could hold them for the rest of the day. Nothing has had the same effect on me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:35:12 2018 No.11982632 >>11982512 not that translation, i hope. it's shitty.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:37:01 2018 No.11982644 >>11982512 Just start and youll keep going- few hook like Tolstoy. But read the Maud.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:40:42 2018 No.11982655 >>11982632 Which translation/edition would you recommend?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:42:26 2018 No.11982662 It's good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 16:42:54 2018 No.11982664 >>11982655 M A U D E A U D E

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 17:02:22 2018 No.11982732 >>11982655 978 1 85715 096 4

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 19:14:02 2018 No.11983361 >>11982624 perfect m8

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 20:12:48 2018 No.11983635 File: 69 KB, 500x312, TOlstoy graiffit .jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Because it's the best book that has ever been written

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 20:15:40 2018 No.11983650 >>11982512 Why does the prettiest cover go.to the worst translation?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 20:16:55 2018 No.11983659 >>11982632 >>11983650 p&v isn't even bad, stop falling for the memes

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 20:40:00 2018 No.11983780 Don't read this, it creates mustard gas!

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 20:44:59 2018 No.11983801 >>11982624 Okay, this convinced me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 20:46:56 2018 No.11983814 >>11983659 If their War and Peace is as shitty as their Crime and Punishment, then yea, they do suck.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 20:52:53 2018 No.11983830 >>11982512 Best novel ever written

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 23:12:37 2018 No.11984439 File: 68 KB, 633x758, K5ml0UD.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11982632 >mfw I am reading the penguin classics version

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 24 23:14:42 2018 No.11984445 >>11982632 >>11982664 >>11983650 >>11983814 the anti-P&V squad is here folks

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 00:43:14 2018 No.11984830 >>11982512 It's good

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 02:17:17 2018 No.11985156 >>11982526 Wrong The greatest novel ever written.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 02:18:50 2018 No.11985162 File: 45 KB, 333x500, 3CE106F4-AAF0-4D5E-BAA6-31EAC4453445.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11983650 Best edition and best translation

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 02:20:55 2018 No.11985171 >>11984445 I've read a chapter of their C&P. Simply terrible. Even Garnett is better.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 02:26:41 2018 No.11985185 If you don't read it I will break into your home and murder your entire family, kiddo

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 02:43:42 2018 No.11985238 >>11985171 What translation do you recommend for C&p then?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 02:48:47 2018 No.11985248 >>11985162 >>11982512 Why are women allowed to touch and pervert the great works of literature?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 03:06:03 2018 No.11985277 >>11985248 All of the major translators of both Tolstoy and Dosto are women

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 03:06:07 2018 No.11985278 >>11983814 C&p is a bad book though

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 03:12:40 2018 No.11985283 >>11985238 Macduff for Dosto always

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 03:19:29 2018 No.11985300 >>11982624 I read 1 short story by Chekhov and was affected for months.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 03:26:46 2018 No.11985313 >>11985300 Which one

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 04:25:07 2018 No.11985455 >>11985283 Well I think Mcduff did a great TBK at least. And for tolstoy you only like maude?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 04:26:23 2018 No.11985457 >>11982512 think of the pseud cred

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 06:25:47 2018 No.11985681 >>11982512 yeah nah if you needed convincing then you're not likely to have read it on your own terms anyway in which case you were probably never ready to read it to begin with

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 06:41:42 2018 No.11985713 File: 1.84 MB, 178x260, 1539814965043.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11983780

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 06:51:08 2018 No.11985729 >>11985300 Which story?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 06:53:20 2018 No.11985732 >>11985729 Gun

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 09:39:44 2018 No.11986148 >>11985455 Maude revised by Gibian is best

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 10:45:16 2018 No.11986344 Hardback or paperback /lit/? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Worlds-Classics-Hardback-Collection/dp/0198800541/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1540477967&sr=8-6

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 10:50:56 2018 No.11986378 >>11986344 Get the Everyman's Library edition. Acid free paper, creamy, smooth, soft. mmmm

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 11:03:05 2018 No.11986433 >>11986378 Looks nice but I don't really want to spend £20 on one book

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 12:13:22 2018 No.11986701 >>11985300 I don’t think we are talkig about the same

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 13:29:33 2018 No.11986983 >>11983814 Also their “master & Margirita” is complete shit

Anonymous Thu Oct 25 13:30:08 2018 No.11986988

>>11985729
>>11985313
Easter Eve
Enemies

A trivial thing
>She had by now recognized the prince, and did not take her eyes off his figure. It is hard to describe the delight and the suffering with which her ugly face was radiant! Her eyes were smiling and shining, her lips were quivering and laughing, while her face craned closer to the panes.
What a god

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 13:31:32 2018 No.11986992 File: 89 KB, 550x600, F52267F6-3EF3-466E-8BFE-9DD20D077314.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11985278 Confirmed mental retard

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 13:32:25 2018 No.11986995 read it or else

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 14:52:59 2018 No.11987269 >>11983635 Nah, that's Anna Karenina

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 15:22:59 2018 No.11987363 >>11986995 Alright alright, just put the gun down!

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 17:51:28 2018 No.11988062 >>11982512 The characters will be your friends for the rest of your life.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 17:53:38 2018 No.11988074 >>11985278 It's a good book.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 25 18:07:54 2018 No.11988151 >>11986344 Bumping this. How are paperbacks with 1300 pages? I think it might fall apart?

Anonymous Thu Oct 25 19:05:30 2018 No.11988391

>>11982512
it's the best book you will ever read. the main character pierre, you will notice you can relate with him a lot. most people can. a maximalist view of the world. very naive in the beginning. but as he matures, he starts to understand reality. this is what you will get out of this book. this is not spoiler, but what i thought of the book when i read it. there are other characters that you will like. it is a book for everyone in my opinion.

Anonymous Thu Oct 25 20:12:50 2018 No.11988625
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I started reading it yesterday because Norm Macdonald often brings it up. It's usually not the kind of book i'm into but i've been liking it so far, i have the Constance Garnett translation. It's quite a commitment as it's the biggest book i've attempted to read.

Anonymous Fri Oct 26 00:44:14 2018 No.11989614
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I was told Garnett was good for Tolstoy for personal use, and that the complaints about it being too poetic were over blown.

And that P&V is best for academic use and can be overly literal.

Maude worked with Tolstoy, so don't most people defer to her work?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 26 01:01:00 2018 No.11989664 >>11982655 >>11982664 I just got the wordsworth version, How fucked am I?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 26 03:47:21 2018 No.11990060 Should I get the p&v paperback?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 26 05:23:32 2018 No.11990225 >>11982512 Pierre is all of us, Nastasya is a qt

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 26 05:24:45 2018 No.11990228 >>11989614 Garnett is very dry to read

Anonymous Fri Oct 26 05:33:20 2018 No.11990247
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>>11982512
I would, but a lot of pages get used in the outhouse when we forget to bring suitable wiping material, which is too much lately with this local diarrhea epidemic happening. It's a real war in there these days.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 26 05:37:44 2018 No.11990253 >>11990060 yes

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