"War & Peace" Buddy

[leo305]

i know i was just playing lol

 

[Siphorous]

Yeah, 1,500 pages of the smallest text you can possibly imagine.

Good luck with doing it in a day.

Yeah, it would be a tad tough to say the least. Mine's also complete and unabridged but at 1002 pages, must be a titchy font indeed. It's not an easy book to read thusfar I'll admit but I'll keep at it as long as someone else does

How's it going so far for you?

My copy is split into volumes, each of which is split into books, each of which split into chapters. As I write this, I've read up to the end of chapter 16 of the first book of the first volume.

 

[Alien Allen]

There is such a thing as speed reading. If I remember correctly the theory is something to the effect you can read the first and last paragraph of most pages to get the drift of what is there.

I applaud people that can read stuff like this.

 

[sophie]

Yeah, it would be a tad tough to say the least. Mine's also complete and unabridged but at 1002 pages, must be a titchy font indeed. It's not an easy book to read thusfar I'll admit but I'll keep at it as long as someone else does

How's it going so far for you?

My copy is split into volumes, each of which is split into books, each of which split into chapters. As I write this, I've read up to the end of chapter 16 of the first book of the first volume.

I am SO behind already!!!!!! Moving threw a monkey wrench into my plans...I am about 75 pages in I think. And as soon as I find where I put the silly thing, I will read some more!!!

 

[Siphorous]

You've got more pages done than me, but if your copy has about 1500 then we're probably about the same place so no worries

Hope you settle in ok!

 

[sophie]

I don't know if it has 1500 or not, I was guessing. I am about 100 pages in now. Woot.

 

[Codrus]

I don't know if it has 1500 or not, I was guessing. I am about 100 pages in now. Woot.

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[sophie]

War & Peace Australian??? The hell you say?

 

[Codrus]

War & Peace Australian??? The hell you say?

Published from 1865 to 1869. Original text has some 460,000 Russian and French words. English translation contains over 560,000 words and over 3.1 million characters; typically over 1400 pages as a paperback

 

[sophie]

Yeah but it's hardly an Australian novel mate!

 

[Codrus]

sorry i pasted the wrong info........i have a shortcut in pure text of local library books

 

[Siphorous]

I'm continuing - but not made lots of progress. Will see if I can catch up more before the weekend. The amount of characters can be overwhelming - that's the hardest thing so far.

 

[Siphorous]

Still behind but up to Chapter 5 of Book 2 of Volume 1.

Are you enjoying it thusfar?

The names are getting easier to remember now. It's going to be interesting to see how the many threads intertwine.

 

[sophie]

I am enjoying it thus far, actually. Not making much progress the last few days and am moving in the next couple so this week looks bad (lol) but next week I will be back into it!

 

[Siphorous]

No worries. I have missed days too and caught up a bit this weekend. It helps hugely knowing someone else is reading it I'd have lost motivation I'm sure by now if I was trying this epic by myself and it would have sat on my shelf for many a year yet

 

[sophie]

Yeah, me too mate!!! Defo helps having the (nagging) thought that someone else is reading it with me and would likely be pissed if I stopped LOL.

 

[sophie]

So Siphorous...I am making absolutely shite progress on this lately. You?

 

[Siphorous]

Much the same Sophie. Much the same. If you've got too much going on with your life to do this right now - no worries. I'll try carry on though, bit by bit.

 

[sophie]

I'm trying to truck through it bit by bit as well! Stalled at the moment. But I will persevere!