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Mr.Tolstoy sums up an individuals thoughts, feelings, disparaging's, jealousy's, angers, even deep seated hatred's... the one's proper folk never speak of, all in this wonderful book, also contain's a huge number of profiles with crazy names. As I read I wished I could change the name of this book Anna Karenina to some thing more like "Levin" or "Kitty and her Man" or even "The Women of Russia" for the author writes a considerable amount on others rather than
the heroin Anna.
The author often alluded to her, Anna before she even appears on the scene. As I read I eagerly awaited the arrival of this mysterious, beautiful Anna Karenina. ... When she finally did appear in this incredible work of words... I didn't like the woman! Only a really good book can bring out these kind of emotions. As I read Leo's inner description of Anna Karenina's thoughts and feeling's, reading of her pains her wild jealously, I found myself crying along with her tears for her child and her loneliness. I started to slowly understand this heroin, and why she did the things that she did.
Understanding the ugly thing that bugged me so much... her adultery!
The book bounces all around with personalities bearing names that are truly unpronounceable, unless of course you can read Russian, then the names like Sviyazhsky or
Agafya Mikhailovana would come naturally.
The author does a wondrous job in describing things like a horse race, this surprised me a little because who would care about that, but I did!
Because of the way Leo wrote it, I read in anticipation of who would win this competitive horse race! A truly "good" book!”
Grace wrote this review Thursday, October 13, 2011.
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