" The overall story is compelling by its very nature -- it has all the elements: lust, love, passion, betrayal, suspense, sorrow, loss, danger, etc. But Tolstoy's actual WRITING/PROSE? Pretty redundant and boring, actually. Or maybe I just had a bad translation. But honestly, both "War and Peace" and "Karenina", while excellent STORIES, seemed to blather on at many points where he could have just cut to the chase and knocked off a lot of the dragging repetition. But the tale itself is one that every person should experience at least once, whether in book form, or through one of the various movie or made-for-television versions... "
— Jenn, 1/19/2014