Well, I'd never willingly subject myself to any Russian literature again, pretty much, but I was one of the few people in my class who finished AK. On the other hand, I'd say Jane Austen was the most lively and subtly witty writer of human behaviour I've ever encountered, second only to PG Wodehouse in fictional hilarity. Whereas The Mists of Avalon might've been okay if I were a child at the time, but I can't stand MZB's self-indulgent teenie-bopper-pandering sordid incestuous fake-historical drippy writing.