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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy and translated by Rosamund Bartlett · 2012 · 758 pages

Anna Karenina

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Nassim Taleb
“Thanks, but I prefer to read Anna Karenina.”↗
Peter Thiel
“I think it's Anna Karenina where it's: all happy families are alike and all unhappy families are unhappy. In their own special way I think something like the opposite is true of companies: all great companies are special in a good way and then all failed companies somehow generic and and failed.”
Tom Hiddleston
“".@inceptioning Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". And "Any Human Heart", by William Boyd. #TomQandA"”↗
Stuart McMillan
“📚 My favorite books These are not the most-influential or most-important books of all time [at least not all of them] — just the ones I like the most; or the most-important to me. I have almost certainly forgotten a whole bunch.”↗
Jennifer Lawrence
“I really wasn't expecting to like it. I thought I wouldn't want to finish an 800-page book, but then I started slowing down and reading the same chapters over and over. You fall in love with the characters; you grow up with.”↗
Jen Wilkin
“Done. Started it in January, so consider this my “Top 10 books of 2018” post. 😂 Such good writing, so many pages. Well done, Mr. Tolstoy.”↗
Maggie Gyllenhaal
“This taught me a lot about acting. You start out thinking Kitty is an idiot or Lévin is naive or Anna’s husband is dead inside—and then you see them crack: Each is both a good guy and a bad guy, capable and not capable, makes mistakes and saves people and saves themselves. That’s what I believe every character in a movie should be, and I hope that the people I play who are easy to judge—the ones that make you think, I’m nothing like that—by the end, you have some insight into them.”↗
Laura R Walker
“A great novel that I have read three times.”↗
Ethan Hawke
“I read Anna Karenina backstage during a 2006 Lincoln Center production of Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia, a nine-hour epic about mid-19th-century Russian radicals. So I read most of it in full Russian period costume. My advice is to re-create these circumstances whenever possible.”↗
Bret Easton Ellis
“If you've never read a novel pick up "Anna Karenina" and you will have the most intensely jolting and cinematic experience ever. Great book.”↗
Tendai Biti
“Re-reading Tolstoy s Anna Karenina one would have to wonder wether a better book was ever written ? With great respect to Dostoevsky, Marquez,Dickens ,Allende ,Coelho, Soyinka, Sembene, Conrad,Eco,Kafka, Murukami, Roth ,Achebe and many many others”↗
David Copperfield
“As good as they say. Tolstoy is a cardiologist. The man knew everything about the human heart. It’s all on display here.”↗
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