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That is interesting because I found War and Peace the easiest to go through.

Though it might be because I actually found his materialistic approach to history very interesting and his views an leadership extremely valuable. So I am one of the few that actually enjoyed all the rambling about how much Napoleon sucked.

It is one of the few books that made a lasting impression on my worldview. I wish more management type people would read it. It just so exhausting to work with people that see leadership as some ego trip. A good leader's job is to simply enable the people to do their job.

Funny enough I don't remember much about the actual characters. Really need to read it again some other time. AK was a bit more difficult for me as it is more story-driven and a bit more subtle with it themes.



War and Peace is only as long as Lord of the Rings, after all. It's odd to me that people will read something like ASOIF and then punt on that.

> It just so exhausting to work with people that see leadership as some ego trip.

I think that my biggest surprised on reading a book by a Russian count was that he was a strong opponent of the Great Man theory of history.


>War and Peace is only as long as Lord of the Rings, after all. It's odd to me that people will read something like ASOIF and then punt on that.

I read the first four ASOIAF books in two weeks (before the TV show). I read the fifth one in two days straight after buying the ebook at midnight on release day.

I have repeatedly failed to read more than a few dozen pages of LotR.


The beginning of LotR is rather slow, and specially the Old Forest section is a slog. Almost made me give up on the book.

After they reach Bree, the entire thing was a breeze for me


Yes, exactly this!

I enjoyed much more the "essay-like" parts than the actual novel, and they stuck with me unlike the rest of the details of War and Peace.




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