I am reading War and Peace right now and only have 100 pages to go (Out of 1386!).
When I turn the last page and close the book, I may have to start all over again so I won’t suffer from “Separation Anxiety”. LOL!
I enjoyed every day that I opened that book. I can see now that it is an easy book to abridge. You just cut all the many levels of detail and thoughts and perceptions until you are left with the bare plot. It’s much better to read the entire book. The only parts that drug for me were when Tolstoy expounded his theories of history.