BOOK ONE: Part 2, Chapter 11-15

As much as I don't know about the Nepo war... things don't look too good for Prince A at the moment. 

Did Tolstoy make up some history? I mean with the letter from Nepo...ah well.. if Shakespeare can make up words to make his plays better, then I think Tolstoy should be able to make up some history. 

BOOK ONE: Part 2, Chapter 9-10

Cool quote: "It was not the question 'what for?' but the question 'How' that interested him."

BOOK ONE: Part 2, Chapter 8

Ho-Ly Shiit.  

So...this must be that war part. 

Tolstoy has game.  

BOOK ONE: Part 2, Chapter 6-7

Tolstoy has this really interesting way of describing people's expressions. It makes me want to be a writer and not a director to read these words- because Tolstoy is creating a story though the way that he writes that could never be interpreted correctly as a film. This is pure literature at it's best. 

Also, a question. When Tolstoy says 'our troops' what does he mean? What does the 'our' imply? Does he know that people will be reading this- and is the 'our' a way to get us to side with him? Pg.141 for those of you who are following along. 

BOOK ONE: Part 2, Chapter 1-5

So... Tolstoy took a little side trip here to talk about a character that is not even mentioned in the 'Character list' in the front of the book. I think that Tolstoy is maybe just trying to prove a point about Nationalism and what 'the army' and society can mean to people.. because these chapters have nothing to do (so far as I can see) with the plot so far (I mean besides the obvious part that they are about the Russian army in the Nepo war).

There was a really awesome quote in chapter 4 spoken by Denisov  "we sleep when we don't love. We are children of the dust...but when one falls in love and one is a G-d one is pua' as on the first day of creation..."

So Me= 0 Tolstoy=1

BOOK ONE: Part 1, Chapters 8-25

Yes, I know what you might be thinking... chapters 8-25? This might be a long post. Its not that I have made the decision to only post every once and a while, it is just that I have spent so much time getting absorbed into the book that I find stopping to blog about it is quite silly. So I shall only blog at my digression in moments when it will not take away from my ability to live life and become involved with the book. Cheers to life. 

I am still unsure about weather or not I like Pierre (or now Count Peter Bezukhov).  But I do like his anti- social and capital ways of life.. or at least the fact that he is an outsider in many ways to that system. That and I have always fancied men who wear glasses and 'peer over' them at appropriate moments as if they are thinking something clever in there heads. 

I thought the quote 'In this world one has to be cunning and cruel' was interesting... I have been writing on a topic very similar to that suggestion and the fact that I happened across it in this book was a bit exciting. 

I think this part of the book had a bit more 'peace' to it then war, and because my brain has been shook by the likes of Jane Austine I fear that I will not like the 'war' part that is coming. 

END OF BOOK ONE, PART ONE! this may take longer then I thought...

BOOK ONE: Part 1, Chapters 6-8

Chapters 6-7

So...how did bear fighting come into play so quickly? I'm not saying I don't like it, it's just a bit off-setting to go from a well to do party to bear killing. Perhaps that's what Tolstoy wanted. 

The upcoming battle between Pierre and Prince Vasili is intriguing... I just hope that if Pierre gets the inheritance that he wont send his serfs off to war. He seems like the kind of guy that might do that. 

Chapter 8

I feel bad for Nicholas...although Boris was pretty funny about the whole Mimi thing. Boris's joke reminded me of something J.M. Barrie would come up with.