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Anna Karenina

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Tolstoy novel suggested as a classic starting point for a book club, met with extreme incomprehension and destruction by illiterate attendees.

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"He seems like a genuine intelligent guy (for a 19yr undergrad), always posts his reads on insta and he's currently finishing Anna Karennina."
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God bless the Internet Archive! · u/bedulge · ↑240 · 2023-11-25
"Greatest book I ever read. Truly. The prose is so beautiful you will shit ur pants. Truly. The commentary on Russian society and philosophy and moral turmoil shapes u into a different person. The prose is insanely good, like he is able to bring up feelings and describe feelings that have been tucked"
If u want to read a book, read Anna Karenina · u/Intelligent-Farmer-4 · ↑185 · 2022-01-03
"Recently I finished Anna Karenina and am currently reading Catch-22."
What book are you currently reading? · u/Reasonable-Big4517 · ↑66 · 2024-11-27
"Planning on doing a part every week for the next 2 months. Join us if you want. Announcement thread is stickied over there."
"I suggested we could start with a standard classic like Anna Karenina. Someone immediately went 'Anna WHO? That's not a real name!'. I showed her the copy I brought with me and another person grabbed it and started to suck on the corner with his entire mouth (thinking it was an i-pad)... two of the "
"I started Anna Kerinina a few months ago but I was in the midst of a bender so I couldn't read so good, but the first 100 pages o read was very good."
Why is Russian literature so good · u/RobitoBobito · ↑38 · 2021-06-11
"I'm in Bushwick 28F and would maybe like to do a once a month gathering, anything classic/lindy ie. Moby Dick, the Odyssey, Anna Karenina, Faulkner, Nabokov, etcetera."
NYC book club · u/angelicapeach · ↑38 · 2022-06-13
"was thinking about how strikingly anna's charm is written in *anna karenina* and how striking/magnetic people sometimes can be."
"It was an astonishing feat, what might be called a defining moment in Roosevelt's eventful life. But what makes it especially memorable is that during that time, he managed to read all of Anna Karenina. I often think of that when I hear people say they haven't time to read."
. · Tuesday_Addams · ↑28 · 2022-08-08
"Recently I finished Anna Karenina and am currently reading Catch-22."
What book are you currently reading? · u/Reasonable-Big4517 · ↑66 · 2024-11-27
"was thinking about how strikingly anna's charm is written in *anna karenina* and how striking/magnetic people sometimes can be"
"In his Petersburg world all people were divided into utterly opposed classes. One, the lower class, vulgar, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous people, who believe that one husband ought to live with one wife whom he has lawfully married"
Tolstoy on the urban millenial · u/altheyungjews · ↑33 · 2020-05-11
"during that time, he managed to read all of Anna Karenina"
. · u/Tuesday_Addams · ↑28 · 2022-08-08
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