I had to stop reading Anna Karenina because I realized it was too good and I would be reading the pinnacle of literature too early in my life. I have to savor it
The sooner you read it the sooner you can read it again
>>24732897Just read everything but the last 10 pages and when you feel yourself growing weaker from a stroke or cancer then you may finish.
>>24732897criiinge
Nigga, just read it and then read it again in 10 or 15 years.
>>24732897>Spanish soap opera but Russian>pinnacle of literature
>>24732961>I have learned to call stories that involve relationships soap opera and think it makes me look clever
>>24732897Had the same experience with the Recognitions. Read 50 pages, realised it has everything I look for in literature, and put it down for future use. Planning to whip it out when I feel particularly starved for great literature.Never got the fascination with Tolstoy though. Always seemed to me like a standard realist, one I'd rank below the likes of Eliot, Flaubert and James.
>>24732927I SMELL BURNING TOAST…..GET OUT OF THE WAY! I MUST FINISH….ANNA KARENINA…..UTHFHFHHHH
>>24732897If you consider it the pinnacle of literature, you would find it infinitely re-readable anyway.
>>24732897you should of already read 10 times by the time you turned 10, you are behind if anything.
>>24732961This is like calling Demons “action movie” because it features violence
