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Liz Smith | 06/19/2009 10:30 pm

Liz Smith on a New Edition to a Classic Book

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In response to: What book that you know you should read – but haven't gotten around to yet – haunts you from your bedside table?
Liz Smith
The new version of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I begin it over and over. But I did spend eight hours seeing the famous Bondarchuk movie of it.

Read more about: Bondarchuk, Books, Leo Tolstoy, Literature, War and Peace

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O E
Yes, that’s "War and Peace" for me, too.  Got through my World Literature class by reading a report on it by another student.  The Quixote was enough for me.  So when It comes to "War and Peace", I choose peace and  don’t bother with the book.
By O E on 06/20/2009 12:31 pm
Marilee Short
Read "War and Peace"!  My partner gave me an 8 week course at St. Johns here in Annapolis and 8 participants dissected the book, it was wonderful and a very special Christmas present. The books I can’t get into are by Eckhart Tolle.   They seem like the same thing just written a bit different.  I am currently reading "The Bolter" and "The Women".  I read "Loving Frank" and enjoyed it.  Love this post!
By Marilee Short on 06/21/2009 10:39 pm
O E
I started "Loving Frank" and set it aside for a while.  Couldn’t get into it, although I admire his work as an architect and have visited Taliessen.  But in the interim I’ve read "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb.  Superbly written.  I just finished the Spanish version of "The Angel’s Game" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.  I’d read his "The Shadow of the Wind" in English and then in Spanish.  Although Zafon’s writing is lyrical and exotic, and regardless of the fact that he hooked me with "The Shadow of the Wind", my reaction to "El Juego del Angel" was, "What the hell?"
By O E on 06/22/2009 12:42 am
Eileen Alannah
I chose "peace" too when I read that book every time they started talking about "war" I skipped ahead to get back to the doings at home. : )
By Eileen Alannah on 06/20/2009 3:23 pm
Yvonne Faye
I have so many "TBR" books that I am embarrassed to say I can’t pick just one.  I am reading the bio on Helen Gurley Brown right now…and also Tori Spelling’s new book….Mommyhood.  I have a book about my "fifties" that I didn’t read and now I am in my sixties!!!!!  But the sixties are the new fifties…so I still have time.
By Yvonne Faye on 06/20/2009 6:07 pm
Washington Cube

I’ve read War and Peace several times…all of Tolstoy really, including a combined reading of his journals, and his wife’s journals.  Now that was interesting.  He says. She says.  If you’ve seen the Russian film version of War and Peace, you’ve read the book. Eight hour and they nailed it.  I’ve never seen a truer "capture" of a novel outside of Brideshead Revisited.

I’m currently reading, among other things, Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True by Elizabeth Berg and Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood.  Atwood is usually thought of as a prolific novelist.  This book tackles the issue of debt (and money) from so many angles: historic, religious, mythical, political.  It’s one of those "what more can I teach you" books that is wonderful in the many paths of knowledge she takes you down and it certainly is timely in terms of our current economy.

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By Washington Cube on 06/22/2009 5:20 pm