Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 10, 2024

Why read? Watch the 1956 epic historical drama film “War and Peace” based on Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel of the same name.

Anything but that, Sally!

I don’t even care if John Steinbeck hates me.

Apparently, Leo Tolstoy really did hate someone – William Shakespeare…

I slogged my way through one summer. My tan was fantastic!

What’s your favourite book, everyone? Mine is The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi.

Sure …..better than reading that book .

No, not by Leo Tolstoy.

Sally doesn’t realize that he’s been dead since 1910.

I have read the book, and seen the film. Leo and I are good.

Leo Tolstoy should mind his own business.

He’ll just have to hate me then. I’m an avid reader but I will never read “War and Peace.”

A test of fortitude is to actually read the entirety of a Faulkner novel. Man, reading that guy’s long winded form of prose is like watching paint dry on a wall. Diametrically opposite of other writers like Hemingway whose work seemed rather “quick” to read such as The Sun Also Rises or Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions, God Bless You Mr Rosewater).

Last time I tried, I got a third in before other books called. Better than I did when I was a kid…made it a few pages in and put it down.

I’m reading Lester Del Rey’s DAY OF THE GIANTS right now, so Leo must be getting ready to heckle me big time.

Yuri Testikov: War and Peace … how about War – What Is It Good For?

Reading War and Peace currently

At least it wasn’t Dostoevsky…I would never want to be hated by someone whose name I can’t spell or pronounce.

Remember when Snoopy read “War and Peace” in one word a day mode?

Leo Tolstoy’s last words were, “Don’t hate me for hating you.”

Yes Sally, reading is important. Just think, for people that never learned to read English, today’s Peanuts column would just show a blond haired girl holding a white sheet of paper. They would not get the hidden joke behind it!

Depends. Was he racist?

You know, Sally, your big brother read War and Peace all by himself in a matter of days one time.

Worse yet, the ghost of Leo Tolstoy. Though I prefer to watch one of the two versions of the movie “War and Peace”.

I have more serious worries than him.

One of the more modern jokes is you don’t want Steven King to hate you. I think there was a Far Side where ??? was having a bad day then he rear-ends SK.

Leo will just have to get in line.

She’s got a point…

What kind of books do people of today read? ☹️

He’s dead. I don’t think he cares.

No…….No I Don’T!!!! That is why I read War & Peace Sally!!!!!

Well actually I read War and Peace in high school because one semester in English class our assignment was to read 1500 pages of book(s) and do reports on the books we read. War and Peace from the school library was 1612 pages long. Took me two weeks to read, one weekend to write the book report for which I got and A and I was done in English class for that semester.

I’d rather read The Brothers Karamazov than that doorstop of book :-DJust kidding. I don’t intend to read The Brothers also ;-)

I wouldn’t mind being hated by Harold Robbins and Sidney Sheldon

i read War and Peace in 5th grade…really liked it, and it wasn’t an assignment

If you didn’t read then you would be the subject of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work (The Idiot).

I remember when Snoopy was reading War and Peace one word a day.

I couldn’t care less!

Leo is and has been dead for awhile.

Reading the classics can be a big disappointment.

Who cares if Leo tolstoy hates me

Snoopy read a Russian story called THE NOSE and still has nightmares about it