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Title: Read it once, and then be glad you're done
Review: This book is "the best novel ever written." Of course, the people who say this also rave about James Joyce. The truth is, Anna Karenina is a book you should read, if only so you can say that you read it. The characters range from amusing to annoying, and you'll probably want to drop-kick Anna by page 500. Levin's internal struggle over peasant-noble relations and the agricultural revolution are nausiating. The religious conflicts several of the characters experience become equally tedious. The book is saved by the lovable near-do-well Oblonsky and his wife Dolly. So read this "classic" and just be glad it wasn't "war and peace"; that's even longer.
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