3 ms·
Yes and no. I haven't read Tolstoy yet, and it's on my bucket list to do so. Ideally I'd like to go into that without any major spoilers. But at the same time,
by garmaine 8y ago
Yes and no. I haven't read Tolstoy yet, and it's on my bucket list to do so. Ideally I'd like to go into that without any major spoilers.
But at the same time, if a book has stood the test of time of 120-years... the spoiler probably would only very slightly diminish my enjoyment of it. For example, even knowing the plot of the Sherlock Holmes stories and William Poe's mystery poems, I still get enjoyment from re-reading them, in a way that I don't from Dan Brown, for example.
- EliRivers 8y agoVery much so. In a Dan Brown novel, the plot is the point. For Tolstoy, the plot is a useful device on which to hang what he's actually writing about.