Hello from Scotland

[Eyebrowse]

Hello just read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and decided to google for a book forum as I enjoyed it so much I thought there must be other folk out there who might want to rave along with me about this brilliant book. I turn forty this year and now i've read it I can't believe I didn't read it when I was in my teens as I've been a reader since I was old enough to read by myself.

Anyway I hope to find what i'm looking for here, ie some good intellectual discussion about books and the English language in general. Thanks

Eyebrowse

[Saffron]

Welcome to BT. I believe there is a thread somewhere around here on War & Peace. I think I'll go look and get back to you. I think if you poke around a bit you will find some very interesting discussions. If you like poetry, check out the Poetry Forum: Passion for Poetry.

Saffron

[Saffron]

Here it is, although it is rather short, only three posts:

http://www.booktalk.org/war-and-peace-t ... nd%20Peace

[Eyebrowse]

Thanks that's the sort of warm welcome I really appreciate thank you very much.

[Chris OConnor]

Welcome Eyebrowse! I love the name.

And I have enjoyed your posts so far. You gave good advice to a new members about reading historical fiction as a means to kill two birds with one stone. I definitely agree with you and appreciate you offering such sound advice.

[Between_the_covers]

Hi and Welcome!
Love the name you chose....Eyebrowse.

[Eyebrowse]

Welcome Eyebrowse! I love the name.

And I have enjoyed your posts so far. You gave good advice to a new members about reading historical fiction as a means to kill two birds with one stone. I definitely agree with you and appreciate you offering such sound advice.

Hi and Welcome!
Love the name you chose....Eyebrowse.

Thanks for the words of welcome

[Suzanne]

Hello just read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and decided to google for a book forum as I enjoyed it so much I thought there must be other folk out there who might want to rave along with me about this brilliant book. I turn forty this year and now i've read it I can't believe I didn't read it when I was in my teens as I've been a reader since I was old enough to read by myself.

Hello and welcome Eyebrowse!

I am in my forties, and I have just finished "War and Peace", and I have asked myself the same question, why did I wait so long to read it. I also fell in love with it. I think many people may be afraid of the length, but I found it to be a true page turner. Tolstoy's passion for his country and the people of Russia is overwhelming. I'm actually looking forward to reading it again.

[hmrush]

Welcome! I just read Anna Karenina ( I thought it was perhaps an easier one to start with ) and absolutely loved it! I am hoping to read War and Peace soon, but I sometimes need to take a break from the Russians before starting up another one. I am 19, but I think there is a benefit to reading it when you are more mature, there are probably a lot of things you get out of it that I don't because you know so much more about the world.

[Eyebrowse]

Welcome! I just read Anna Karenina ( I thought it was perhaps an easier one to start with ) and absolutely loved it! I am hoping to read War and Peace soon, but I sometimes need to take a break from the Russians before starting up another one. I am 19, but I think there is a benefit to reading it when you are more mature, there are probably a lot of things you get out of it that I don't because you know so much more about the world.

Lol, thanks for saying that but I've a long way to go before I'd call myself mature and I don't know that much about the world as I've spent most of my life inside the pages of books I always meant to read all of his books (to be well read whatever that means) but never had the patience needed for them at 19 or much of my twenties, so your ahead of me on that one. I have a copy of The Cossack now so I'll read Anna Karenina after that probably.

The copy of War and Peace I just read had this epilogue at the end of the story, it's not in every edition of War and Peace but it's pretty damn deep and bangs on about free will versus necessity and boy let me tell you those last thirty or so pages were the toughest set of mental gymnastics I've read in my life to date. No wonder he is considered a great man himself. I think I really learnt something worth knowing. More than I learnt through reading the actual book which was more a pleasure than anything else.