Pickles by Brian Crane for March 16, 2020

Besides, by the time Earl finishes that one Nelson will be too old for bedtime stories.

I dunno about W & P. But The Brothers Karamozov put me to sleep within a few minutes every time I tried to read it. Which was, very unfortunately, a requirement for the Literature class I took. Only time I ever cheated with Cliff Notes.

Timely application of Tolstoy (especially in grocery lines!).

I remember when Snoopy tried to read War and Peace at the rate of one word per day.

Earl I suggest the Harry Potter Series … You might need an English to English dictionary … ;-)

zzzz snork. Sorry, your response was really long and I dozed off a bit… is there a summary version of it?

I think Earl’s on to something!

We grow too soon old and too late smart !

I read about a woman who made the effort to learn Russian language in order to read it in the original. She found out that it had gained something in translation.

Nelson is too old for Peter Cottontail! Only when it’s Easter he believes in him…

I’ve read countless books during my 66 years. “War and Peace” was easily the best. Not even a close second.

I was about Nelson’s age when I read War And Peace. I recall liking it a great deal – but that was more than a week ago now (by about a half-century) so I’m only pretty sure about that; I need to pick it up again.

I rented an place in Odessa for 30 days years ago. A book I found on the shelf was War and Peace. I tried to read it in Russian. I still couldn’t get into it.

Moby Dick puts me to sleep also, but first it makes me very, very depressed… I don’t know if it is the most depressing book ever written, but Nathaniel Hawthorne must have really hated himself and his fellow man.

Years back our bedtime book was The Hobbit.

Sorry I’m late, everybody. Was working at the grocery store until closing time and did some of the clean up after closing. Clocked out at 2345 and zonked out until 0030. At least it wasn’t as mayem-like as Saturday and Friday.

Never read W&P myself. I think the longest read I’ve read was J.K. Rowling’s “The Deathly Hallows.”

Well, is it true Tolstoy plagiarized from Sun Tzu? (You know, the guy Ho Chi Minh studied to kick our ass real good.)

I was able to finish War and Peace. I was able to finish Doctor Zhivago. I was able to finish both Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. I was able to finish Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Count of Monte Cristo. No problems with long novels. Except Anna Karenina. I’ve made four attempts, and even made all the way to Chapter 5 before giving it up. I just didn’t care what happened to any of the characters (except it didn’t happen fast enough).

Start with the good stuff!!!

I never got assigned “ War and Peace” in school.

My father did what Earl is doing. He would read Bruce Catton books to us. As in Earl’s case, it “killed two birds with one stone.” Bonus: It got me interested in History. Bruce Catton is an amazing story teller.

Reading the comments is sometimes more funny than the cartoon itself.

I tried to start War And Peace and the only thing I got out of it was the desire to go read a different book.