In Russia’s struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture’, as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation’.

I had kind of high hopes for this book because I’ve hear so many good things about this book but I also know that it won’t be a 5 star read for me because it isn’t something I would typically read but still I was disappointed in this book in a way. 

The plot was super boring for me personally and it really felt like torture for me to read it and I just DNF-ed this book when Ive read like 67% of it because I couldn’t keep on reading because it was so boring. For me personally it felt like it was lecture on way too many perspectives of this war which made me want to never pick up a classic again.

There were too many characters in this book which were so similar to each other that I just couldn’t tell them apart and all of the characters in this book became just the same person to me with different names. Leo Tolstoy could have done a better job here at setting the characters apart from each other because for me it was impossible to tell characters apart. 

For me personally this book felt like a textbook which came with very annoying, dry, stubborn and punishment loving professor built into it. After reading this book I reminded myself why I hated reading books when I was still in school. 

This book was also filled with long descriptions of battles which really made me want to shove a pencil in each of my eyes. These descriptions of battles would have been better if they were shorter and more relatable than they actually were. 

The writing style here was also very old school and it really made me so tired that I needed to take a break every 30 minutes. For me personally this book was mental beating just because I didn’t care about the characters here nor what happened next I just forced myself to read this book.

I Give This Book 1 / 5