if you're reading and it karenina as a young adolescent sink a person can you think this is so romantic, and i had to leave her husband for her true love and it's sat and a strategy but it also, she needed to do that. you understand her. and then if you read it when you a newlywed perhaps i think this is terrible, that's a tall tree? she's abandoning her child. her husband to do anything wrong and if you lead later in life i think you're a little bit more understanding. you're seeing a number of things happen, whether in your own life poinor in the lives of your fris angela bit more compassionate and for giving us some of her choices. >> host: do your books give reviewed in the near times? >> guest: this book is not getting reviewed in the "new york times" because of the fact that i'm overthink everything. there's really no way that i i could responsibly do it without having like a massive conflict ofinterest. my previous books of all been reviewed in the times and i have to say i got probably my most negative review in the near times for my second book which came out in 2005, which was

. >> host: have you read "anna karenina" in russian?. >> yes.ounds because it is such a big book but one of the great things about tolstoy, i realize that sounds so pretentious but even in translation it comes through he has this rare gift for the powerful simple sentence that he finds the absence simplest way to communicate the most complicated thoughts and his prose has a pulsating force that will pick up speed over time. and even in bin russian my russian is good but not fantastic but he uses simple words and structure in a way that's i think it is gorgeous because i think there are some russian writers to have the opposite quality like sandusky. he was a big fan of these huge sprawling sentences that are crammed with a subordinate clause is difficult to follow. there are two different ways to achieve the same thing but tolstoy a simplicity is beautiful and amazing and a genius. >> host: you are a fan of the footnotes?. >> yes i was more of the method growing up that used to have those huge along run on sentences for the parentheses and i tho