Mame wrote:
I like War & Peace, too... but too much detail... much like Dickens, every single bleeding thing is described in excruciating detail... Do we really need to know exactly how the gas light was shining on that particular piece of road at that moment???
Some of the details, however, are marvelous. I vaguely recall the description of how, just before the evacuation of Moscow, a French captain was selecting prisioners to be executed. He was about to select Pierre when he was momentarily distracted by another officer, and, when he returned to the business at hand chose another.
The epilogue is also wonderful, poarticularly his essay that starts with the rhetorical question, "What are the forces that move nations?"
