The paper copy of the book could double as a murder weapon or doorstop. I got it on Kindle and I have been reading it for an hour every day this week and am only about 5 percent through it.
Tolstoy writes very interesting characters, but I don’t like any of them.
I’m all for a long, involved plot with lots of sitting around bickering over the dinner table, but if I don’t like any of the people, I won’t get through the first disk.
You should get The Crimean War by Orlando Figes. I read two of his other books about Russia which weren’t quite so large (and one was paperback).