[MaxBorsch228]

This is a national meme in Russia. War and Peace is mandatory reading in schools, but it's always only 3-4 students in class who really read it. Most students just skim through ("read diagonally", as we say), use summary or watch the movie.

[billfruit]

War and Peace is fairly interesting, in the sense the battle scenes really detailed and action packed, even more than can be shown in movies.