http://hubski.com/pub?id=6171 I recently finished Anna Karenina, and was going to read that but I couldn't get it on Kindle. I had The Hobbit laying around, and I decided to read it again. I hadn't read it since about the 7th grade. I'm going to pick up the dead tree version of Mythago Wood this week. That will be my next read. If you haven't read Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan, I highly recommend that. That's one I often recommend to people. Most of his other stuff is very good, but that one has the most personality, IMO. I'm trying to think of the book I just put behind Mythago Wood... recently recommended to me. Oh, I need to read Slaughterhouse Five. I've never read it. It's one of those that fell through the cracks. If you haven't read any John Irving, read A Prayer for Owen Meany. I didn't love it, but it really sticks with you. Dave Egger's You Shall Know Our Velocity is a brilliant book that isn't mentioned enough.
The books seemed similar in their treatment of Pierre Bezukhov in W&P and Konstantin Levin in AK, regarding their search for meaning, which I enjoyed. Unfortunately, I don't think my translation of AK was as good as the version of W&P I read. I was at a friend's house, and picked up his version of AK. It was much better. Maybe that could have had some affect on your feelings about the book. BTW, color photo of Tolstoy!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsk...
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