[This post was published by Mayank Austen Soofi]
I'm nervous. We – me and Manika are the only members of the W&P Team - have decided to read War and Peace with a commitment of not leaving it in between, something which both of us stand guilty of doing more than once. However, now we have made a public display of our determination of not fleeing again.
We even have a blog to show for it!
Still, there will be temptations to distract us in our straight, narrow, (and could it be boring - my biggest nightmare) path. I am not speaking for Manika but it is certain that there will be times of being seduced by a strong desire to throw away Tolstoy for the sake of an Alice Munro, or a Rushdie, or there may trigger a sudden yearning to re-read Madame Bovary, and only Madame Bovary.
There are other questions too lurking in the skeptical mind: will it be wise to only read War and Peace? Can such an arrangement last? Or is it advisable to have other books for supplementary reading? After all, there need to be cooling-off material for surviving Tolstoyan fatigue, sure to hit every now and then. Besides, I'll still need my regular dose of The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and the Economist!
But there is no going back. I'm stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as to go over.
The Great Struggle of the Brave Readers is about to be launched.
We shall win! Long live Tolstoy.
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Mayank, i'm nervous too. Public display of bravery will be wasted if it comes to nought. But now that we have raised our respective W&P editions in unison and begun our journey down this path, i hope Tolstoy's spirit will guide us both and help us not only read the book till the end, but also enjoy it while we are at it.
Do not worry. We need strong will. And am sure we will enjoy it. Plus if we turn back, we will be publicly disgraced. Ha ha ha. However I hope your sense of mission won't fizzle out if you do not get comments (other than mine) to your posts, for some days at least!
alright guys! count me in. ahem! i aint gonna commit the cardinal sin of reading the "war and peace" book, at least not yet! but i will be with as , what u may call, moral support.
will that be good enough?
aryan, yes! We need your support! Thanks.
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