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[quote=Anonymous]I read War and Peace a few months ago and am reading Anna Karenina now.

I read War and Peace at a faster pace than I'm reading AK, in part because it was just so big and daunting.  I felt it took 200 pages before it really engaged me but after that it was superb.  Most interesting to me was the history and Pierre was my favorite character.  I underlined passages I particularly liked and put post-it notes on those pages (when a book is more than 1000 pages you'll never find those passages again!)   I do plan to read again though, I'd read the second epilogue first.

I'm now 300 pages into AK.  Interestingly I found it really enjoyable at the beginning (first 100 pages or so) but it's a bit more sluggish now I'm not sure when the 100 page treatise on farming methods comes in).  This time no markups.  I'm also listening to the Librivox recording (Mary-Ann Spiegel) which is very good while following along with the text.  It slows down the pace but also keeps you focused and more likely to savior it (I'm a very fast reader and I'm trying to break that habit).

Curious to hear from those who have read both.  Which do you prefer, and how did you read? [/quote]

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