Reading it now. Tolstoy is so obsessed with pointing out how it's not the great leaders that make history but simply the history that takes a life of it's own. This is where he sets up Kutuzov to be the national hero for Russia without explicitly saying so for Kutuzov is the guy who "senses" how things go and simply let them unfold to his advantage.

One thing that bothers me is how all the characters' fates get resolved through death. Pierre encounters death from the executions he witnesses which wakes him up from the search for meaning through the actions he tried earlier in his life (religion, altruism, drinking, love). Andrei also "ascends" through losing his fight against death's grip, Natasha and Maria get their views thoroughly altered by seeing Andrei and for Maria it's the death of his father at first. Not that this is wrong but when you force this same thing on all the characters it feels forced.

Anyways I liked W&P but it could've been shorter.
Also I somewhat hate Natasha

>>714875274
It isn't "you fucks".
It's corpo shills pushing "left vs right" and the retarded idpol fags who
Always
Fucking
Bites
If it can pump their own ego. The laziest fucking falseflag makes ne/v/fags bite every single time. Seriously, try it out for fun on some thread.
>"Hello guys, I used to like [game thread is about], but these days I can see how racist/sexist it is. I just can't enjoy it because it reminds me of Trump"
And fucking everyone bites. It's fucking retarded. That kind of post should be a ban with mod message of "Stop trolling retard".
But no. Instead it stays up and mods delete/autosages SKG whenever they feel like it.

I do wanna start a new save but my god there is too much grinding