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Speaking of War and Peace. I speed read War and Peace for the first time in ~4 hours for the school test (I refused to read assigned literature). It went into
by danielodievich 5y ago
Speaking of War and Peace.
I speed read War and Peace for the first time in ~4 hours for the school test (I refused to read assigned literature). It went into one ear and into another.
I then re-read it while recovering from the surgery over a leisurely week and enjoyed it tremendously as I think would anyone who gives it time.
My mother told me she read just the Peace parts, while my father admitted to reading only the War parts (they are pretty much alternate chapters).
- stephen_g 5y agoI’ve heard people say they’d done similar things (about skipping the battle scenes) and I don’t get it. Some really important things happen to some of the characters in those bits! Surely it’d be super confusing…
- BossingAround 5y agoTo be honest, the whole book is confusing even if you read it as written. It's probably me reading it over months, but forgetting names and relations does not help. So, probably skipping some chapters wouldn't matter to me that much. In general, I love the book. I definitely need to finish it! There was a time I wanted to learn Russian to read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
- lumost 5y agoAssigned reading has a bad habit of pushing us into such patterns. Human's seem to treat anything they are asked to do as a cost to be minimized in favor of the things they choose to do. Given options, they will do the things least similar to those that they are asked to do. It's too bad we can't structure assigned reading and coursework in terms of choice, I distinctly remember choosing to work on harder assignments when given choices back in the grade school era.