Tolstoy's War and Peace

I found some pleasure in this story. Very long, but lots of interesting characters and a nice little commentary on cultural thinking of the era.  The book made it very clear that I know nothing of the history of the French revolution and Napoleon, but this gave me at least some insight.  I think if I read it again I would get a lot more out of it as I would be able to keep better track of the different characters and build their personalities in my mind a little more.  I found it took me half of the book to get them straight in this case.  A positively worthwhile undertaking.