[DanielBMarkham]

Anna Karenina. Nothing mind-blowing. I didn't see a light in the sky.

I read a lot, fiction and non-fiction. When I read Tolstoy, I remember thinking "What sort of dark magic is this?" He drew characters in a way I haven't seen since. I _knew_ these people.

I remember this book, decades later. I remember a lot of what I've read, but Tolstoy was the man. I have no idea how or why his magic worked.

[fhchl]

Anna Karenina is a masterpiece of a novel. I highly recommend it as well.

I often jokingly mention that this is the first book that ever made me want to get married. While many now that the novel describes the tragic life and relationships of Anna, only those that read it will now that here is another, as important and positive story, about the love between Kitty and Levin.

[throwaway2203]

That novel helped me understand love.

[JacobiX]

I second this... to this day, I am in awe! Such a profound and readable book in the same time. Each character lives within me, and in many situations, one of them emerges :)

As Nabokov said, it is the supreme masterpiece of 19th-century prose.

[gcj]

I feel like Tolstoy and Dostoyevski have produced all the great insights we could possibly have on the human soul.

[kukkeliskuu]

Actually it is mind blowing. For example, it has exact description of a flow state in few paragraphs.