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I absolutely agree!

Thank you, Kristin

I liked Resurrection a lot, too, Pavel, and also wonder why it's not more popular. It does have some oddities but I think they make it even more interesting! Then again I have a very strong preference for War and Peace over Anna Karenina and have never understood why AK is so much more popular among English-language readers.

Between Russian readers as well, Lisa, which can be partly explained by school programms, etc. War and peace and Anna Karenina are kind of inevitable if you planning to graduate from your high school and enroll in one of the universities. Whatever your major will be YOU GOT TO READ IT. At same time Resurrection was never in the school programms, so only those who are interested read the book.

I feel like saying touche, Pavel. You read Northern Lights, I read Resurrection.

Have you seen the movie The Last Station? I can't help thinking you might enjoy it. I didn't, but I did two stupid things in relation to it, one of which was that I fell asleep in the credits and didn't wake up until, maybe, half an hour in. I don't know exactly, I was too embarrassed to ask what I'd missed...but I can't help feeling that I might have been less irritated with the film if I'd seen the lot.

Sounds great about Northern Lights. I just checked internet sites of several local book stores and this exact book is available only as audio book (all the others are available in a print form). So as soon as I finish All KIng's Men (less then 2 hours left) I'll grab and start Northern Lights.

I heard about Last Station, but had no chance to see it so far. Of course as soon as I see a DVD or it hits our movie theaters I'll see it and tell you what have happened while you were napping :))

Pavel wrote: "I heard about Last Station, but had no chance to see it so far. Of course as soon as I see a DVD or it hits our movie theaters I'll see it and tell you what have happened while you were napping :))"

So kind! When I woke up everybody was really cross with each other for the entire rest of the movie and I really felt like banging their heads together. But no doubt there is some explanation you will pass on to me, Pavel.

BTW, just to clarify: Northern Lights and Golden Compass are the same book or two different books?

Pavel wrote: "BTW, just to clarify: Northern Lights and Golden Compass are the same book or two different books?"

Oh. I have no idea. I think the first book has different titles in the US and the UK/Australia, but I'm not sure.

Totally agree, this book'll beat AK'nd War and Peace any day, the greatest Tolstoy novel in my opinion

I for one think it is his best novel based on real story told him by Koni.

To me this is Tolstoy's masterpiece. He wrote it at the end of his life, and it is full of wisdom. I have read this book several times, I am learning something new each time. he has created two exceptionnal characters, and manage two ressurections. It is definitively a good book.

Definitely a good book but I would rate it 3rd place among Tolstoy’s 3 greatest novels.
I think Nekhludoff dwelled so much on injustice and this made the book one-dimensional. There wasn’t much interactions among the characters thus it made it less engaging.

Still a worthy read nevertheless.