tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post4759848454546159630..comments2024-03-28T20:13:21.900-06:00Comments on The Blog Fodder: Anna KareninaThe Blog Fodderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-78852321029197177052014-05-22T23:10:00.823-06:002014-05-22T23:10:00.823-06:00When All in the Family aired as a weekly series in...When All in the Family aired as a weekly series in the 70s, I identified with Meathead, then as a rerun 20 years later, I understood Archie perfectly. The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-81597424040873928412014-05-22T16:01:32.039-06:002014-05-22T16:01:32.039-06:00I read Anna Karenina as a teen-ager and identified...I read Anna Karenina as a teen-ager and identified with Anna. I re-read it about 4 decades later and could not believe how foolish she was being. Ah, blessed maturity and calmer hormones!Lynda Beck Fenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363248580928472769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-89948111997101787112012-11-21T12:00:58.546-06:002012-11-21T12:00:58.546-06:00Yes, Levin would have made a good Canadian farmer ...Yes, Levin would have made a good Canadian farmer who did his own work. He was always more at ease when he was working along side his peasant labourers.The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-59305150230995099142012-11-21T11:59:37.107-06:002012-11-21T11:59:37.107-06:00Dostoevsky certainly is difficult to read. I got ...Dostoevsky certainly is difficult to read. I got through Poor Folks because it was a very small book. I am a few chapters into The Brothers Karamazov and am unwilling to go back to it.<br />Tolstoy wrote of the nobility, Chekhov of the Middle Class and Dostoevsky of the common folk. I like Chekhov best followed by Gogol.<br />I started Gulag and could not finish. That much detail of man'sThe Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-34755304465077654052012-11-21T09:53:36.922-06:002012-11-21T09:53:36.922-06:00I read Anna Karenina this summer and gave it the s...I read Anna Karenina this summer and gave it the same rating as you did. it seemed part Harlequin romance in spots. Once in a while I thought Levin would have preferred the life of a serf (at least their home and family life) but he soon returned to his upper class ways. Anna's end is very sad. I do plan to see the movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-75477010377864511212012-11-21T09:48:49.064-06:002012-11-21T09:48:49.064-06:00I took Russian Literature in college (at age 40) a...I took Russian Literature in college (at age 40) and loved it - with the exception of Dostoyevsky which I consider a hack writer...he must have been paid by the word and it seems he never bothered to edit his work. Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago is not only a good read but powerful writing. I also love Dr Zhivago. <br />Just my opinion. <br />the Ol'BuzzardOl'Buzzardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00075162476463971258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-39609053166168349552012-11-21T00:01:26.038-06:002012-11-21T00:01:26.038-06:00Thanks for leaving a comment, Jono. Reminded me t...Thanks for leaving a comment, Jono. Reminded me to check out your blog again. I signed up to follow it this time. You take some good pictures. Racoons have been working their way north for some time now and my cousin reports one having located at their farm in west-central Saskatchewan. Go figure.The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-56258229240524871612012-11-20T23:59:10.317-06:002012-11-20T23:59:10.317-06:00I agree. War and Peace was a better novel or at l...I agree. War and Peace was a better novel or at least I enjoyed it more. Tolstoy published AK as a serial? No wonder it was so long. He was paid by the word?<br />Tanya read Dr Zhivago when she was a young girl and has been after me to read it. It is on my list. Right now I am back beavering away at The Wealth of Nations.The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-87987849177594565842012-11-20T16:10:57.642-06:002012-11-20T16:10:57.642-06:00"obsessing on something imaginary which she c..."obsessing on something imaginary which she could then not let go of." I remember doing that a bit when I was young, but my descent into geezerhood and the curmudgeonly ways I have adopted have bailed me out of that kind of thinking. Sometimes it is really beneficial to be a bit cynical.<br />"Independent People" by Halldor Laxness will give a similar insight into the psyche Jonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170214396483091419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-18720329971388843102012-11-20T16:04:52.789-06:002012-11-20T16:04:52.789-06:00I thought "War and Peace" was better, al...I thought "War and Peace" was better, although I do like "Anna Karenina." The biggest problem with the latter, IMHO, is that Tolstoy's perspective shifts as he's influenced by current events so some of the later chapters don't quite match up with the early ones. One of the dangers of being published serially is that an author could have continuity and/or coherence Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18359007443116549436noreply@blogger.com