#328

Some sort of pipe voyeur.

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#329

Caught up yesterday after missing a few days. Quite enjoying all the social niceties and Anna’s shameless grifting. Still maintain it’s quite funny, Tolstoy is a very arch narrator.

Haven’t pinned down who all the Rostov kids are though.

#330

Pierre is so endearing although he’d do my nut in in real life

Edit: ffs autocorrect

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#331

Top 19th century Russian bangers pt. 1

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#332

Count knows how to throw a party!

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#334
  • I’m still reading and I’m up to date
  • I’m still reading but I’ve fallen behind
  • I gave up
  • I was never part of this in the first place, dunno why I’m still reading this thread

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#335

Think I’m up to date, but not 100% sure. Read a chapter a day anyway.

#336

Needs an option for “screw it, I’m deep into part two already, the war is ON”

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#337

SEMEN! DO YOU KNOW THE DANIEL COOPER?

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#338

Realised today I can play the Daniel Cooper at the Russia-themed silent disco I’m djing next month

#339

Btw, ol’ Lend Us a Tenner is playing an absolute blinder here

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#340

He’s a massive twat whom I love

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#341

I’m definitely getting an Alan-Partridge-wearing-a-Castrol-jacket-to-a-funeral vibe from her

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#342

Extreme unction!!

#343

Likeable characters so far:

Pierre>>>>>>Dancing Count>>>>>>Anna Lend-us-a-tenner.

No one else; they’re all right pricks.

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#344

Didn’t like Count Rostov until he pulled all those crazy dance moves. Imagined him as the 19th century equivalent of a ‘rugby club Dad’ type: wearing loud shirts to barbecues, thinking burping is funny, that kind of thing

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#345

This is the Daniel Cooper dance, the Count is a badass

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#346

I’m five days behind and struggling a bit but I’m hoping that somehow stuff will just click. Right now I’m in a mire of similarly named characters (thanks to use of titles like count or prince/ss) and just a lot of intrigue, but we’ll see.

#347

Fell behind last week but caught up on Monday and now I’m right back in the game.

Even if I didn’t realise the action had moved to Moscow, I found the first couple of Rostov chapters (where they’re all just sitting around hoping the visitors will take the hint and fuck off) were amusing but the party went on a bit too long Could’ve just been boiled to the old uncle arguing with the gung-ho colonel.

A lot more meat in the Count Bezuhov/Lend us a Tenner chapters. This is also the first part I can solidly remember from the last time I started reading this, or maybe I’m conflating that with watching the first episode of that BBC adaptation. Either way, I Reckon our boy Pierre is being lined up for some epic grifting from all parties.

I guess the best thing you can say about Count Bolkonsky so far is that at least he believes in equality in education.

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#348

Think I’m with @1101010 at the moment in that beyond about five characters I don’t have a clue who anyone is because Tolstoy insists on referring to them as “the princess” or “the count”. Which by this point basically saying the same as “the woman” and “the man”. Not helpful, Tolsters.

Even the weird downy-upper-lip descriptions aren’t helping any more as that seems to apply to three different princesses now. Or maybe it’s the same one. I honestly don’t know who I’m reading about.

Just mooching along waiting for the war to come and royally fuck them all up to be honest.

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