Ellen
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David B. Lentz:
David, it's been a while since we chatted. I've decided to plunge into tolstoys war and peace. It was a choice bw that and James Joyce's Ulysses. Did I make the right decision?
David B. Lentz
Yes, you have chosen wisely twice. Congratulations on embarking upon two of the greatest literary novels ever written. Tolstoy's style in "War and Peace" is straight-ahead narrative and, though lengthy, is truly engaging and the pages fly by. Joyce is a greater challenge stylistically: nothing a good understanding of the "Odyssey" won't cure. You'll remember these genius novels as long as you live.
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David, I read you review of "The Sun Also Rises ' of H. Hemingway and I found very interesting so I search for this author in Goodreads and went through his books and its ratings numbers. Beside "The old man and the Sea", it looks like that Hemingway is little read by the USA public although being a noble prize and a much renounced author. Any explanation why ?
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Good day! I found your ratings on Atlas Shrugged and D.H. Lawrence's novels as positive, and I'm currently quite anxious on starting them. I am easily influenced by reviews (be it negative or good) and I am a gullible guy. Perhaps because I am still a youth. I have those aforementioned books in my list and I just want to ask: what could I expect on reading those books?
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