This review is very late...Why? I found that I had to read a few pages and really absorb his thoughts and meanings to try to better understand the Man - it is no good just rushing through a book like this; he was a philosopher and it is best to stop and philosophise over, to really get to grips with it.

At first, I found him to be a very confused individual, who wandered through life, not really knowing what he wanted or what he was looking for but after a while I began to see that he was just as disconcerted as many of us are today with morals, leadership, the meaning of life in general as well as the abhorrent treatment of people who, for whatever reason, are not classed in the same league as the rule-makers and religious leaders.

This book is heavy reading and makes you think deeper, which is no bad thing in my eyes.

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a man far ahead of his own time. Quirky? Yes! but well worth the time and trouble to read.

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