That’s not gonna happen. I’d end up buying a physical copy after finishing it on kindle, and leaving it on my living room floor when people come round.
“Oh sorry, this place is such a mess, I’ll just move this- oh, it’s really heavy. Still, I guess you don’t get light copies of War and Peace, eh? Haha! Yes, I recently read Tolstoy’s War and Peace, that’s right. TOLSTOY.”
It’s like Citizen Kane, everyone’s said it’s good for so long barely anyone checks. It may very well be shit, and I’m about to invest a whole year in finding out it’s not very good. This is a wise and sensible use of my time.
I struggled to get through the first page. I’d quite like to try it with something like Ulysses which is just wacky, but the Russian stuff is very heavy and historical which isn’t my bag so much