tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767816.post115211595374141179..comments2024-02-20T03:18:43.590-05:00Comments on Magnificent Octopus: At war and peace with myselfIsabella Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735198478395875257noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767816.post-1164193885493316112006-11-22T06:11:00.000-05:002006-11-22T06:11:00.000-05:00Hello readers,I'm glad that I stumbled into this s...Hello readers,<BR/>I'm glad that I stumbled into this site. Perhaps you may like to visit a site that I co-manage with a friend. <BR/><BR/>It is called:<BR/>Defeating War And Peace – defeatingwarandpeace.blogspot.com<BR/><BR/>We will be happy with your company. It does get lonely with WP, sometimes.<BR/>Regards,<BR/>Mayank Austen SoofiThe W&P Teamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776349658386140630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767816.post-1152595263224501452006-07-11T01:21:00.000-04:002006-07-11T01:21:00.000-04:00I'm a couple of hundred pages into War and Peace, ...I'm a couple of hundred pages into War and Peace, and it hasn't knocked my socks off either. But then, I read the Reading Middlemarch post about Constance Garnett, and realized that hers was the translation I ended up with after my last minute dash to the used book store! Aaargh. So I have no idea if I would be liking it better in another guise. So. Do I go out and get another translation? Keep plugging along with this one? Give up altogether?marthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09691207583232829217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767816.post-1152312916381183102006-07-07T18:55:00.000-04:002006-07-07T18:55:00.000-04:00You know, I had every intention of reading War & P...You know, I had every intention of reading <I>War & Peace</I> with you guys, but I've not even started it. I did, however, finally finish my year long bout with Eco!Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15771924243879740522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767816.post-1152241308924744842006-07-06T23:01:00.000-04:002006-07-06T23:01:00.000-04:00John Bayley can kiss my grits.(Just got home from ...John Bayley can kiss my grits.<BR/><BR/>(Just got home from Tennessee! Okay, fine, there's no excuse for language like that.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767816.post-1152135908254785222006-07-05T17:45:00.000-04:002006-07-05T17:45:00.000-04:00So are we reading War & Peace? Rather, is your rea...So are we reading War & Peace? Rather, is your reading group reading W&P? If so, could you kindly direct me to said website so I can vent and twist and caw? Please?Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11481145503446286549noreply@blogger.com