Well It’s about time i finished this book it has only taken me almost 2.5 months.  I mean seriously this is like the biggest book I have ever read at almost 2300 pages.  I started reading this book somewhere in Canada and had aimed to finish it before returning to Australia…. Wrong!

The book is one of those classics that people just try to avoid purely cause of the sheer size of it.  I al not sure if it was a history book or a novel as st times Tolstoy blurs those lines and you are not sure if you are reading a novel about life during the war of 1812 or of a histroy book on the event.

In saying that it is a tough read.  The book in the first half jumps around a lot back and forth making things confusing as hell, but by the time it settles down your over half way through and by that stage so dedicated to finishing it you won’t stop.  By the 1800 page mark you see the end and by 2100 your seeing those last 200 as though its 10 or 15 pages (my tablet battery died with 4 pages to go and no access to a power port or charger meant had to wait 🙁 ).

I am happy to of finally finished the book and can cross it off my list of classics so that in essence I have started another item on my bucket list (reading the classics), but if it was not for the tablet I would not of even tried probably.