Is War and Peace really an epic novel?

[hdrevolution123]

It's very long so I'm assuming it has a very complex plot, or perhaps just a lengthy one, but is it actually as exciting and epic and critics describe? Is it worth spending many hours of your life reading and furthermore is it a good book for new readers or slow readers learning to speed read to read? And finally, is it available in english and would one be able to find it in local libraries in London?

 

[Fuelbi]

Wrong thread. Can a mod please close this?

 

[POKE40]

Wrong thread. Can a mod please close this?

Don't you mean wrong board.

A more precise response:
You should post this in the Media Metropolis board .

I need to read more books :embarrass.

 

[hdrevolution123]

can a mod move this then please?

 

[GoldShadow]

I haven't read War and Peace (it's on my list) but I recently finished Moby Dick, another epic classic. If War and Peace is anything like that, it is definitely not for the new or beginning reader; it was a tough read but worth it.

And yes I imagine you would find it in any decent library.

 

[StinkomanFan]

War and Peace didn't really get it's fame as an epic, It was more famous for being long.

 

[slave1]

yeah never read it

dont want to... yeah

 

[1048576]

It seems like to English people the best novels are the ones that take the longest time to say the simplest things.

In that regard, yeah, it's pretty good.

 

[Deleted member]

Meh, it was a book we had to read in Honors English in Senior year (believe me, wouldn't have read it otherwise) and it was very average.

 

[Peeze]

the illiad is an epic.

 

[GoldShadow]

Note: Just to clarify, I didn't mean that Moby Dick or War and Peace were epics (like the Iliad or Paradise Lost), just that they were "epic".