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It was ok. A bit lengthy.. :)

Update in answer to someone who asked me some questions about the book.:
I believe War and Peace is a Romance fiction work as well as a quasi-historic account of the war between France (Napoleon) and Russia. It is not at all what you would expect from a Victorian era novel. Most of these are very intense and hectic and have quite manic characters (taking Wuthering Heights (Bronte), The Last Man (Shelley) and Crime & Punishment (Dostoevsky) as my frame of reference).
It is much more tranquil and reads much like a modern novel (far ahead of its time in that sense).

However, it is really lengthy. This puts a lot of people off, so bear with it. The romantic story is between the regal houses of Russia, their courtships are quite intriguing. My advice to be able to bear the length is: GET A PROPER TRANSLATION. The really cheap one is probably by Constance-Garnett, she translated quite a number of big Russian works in the early 20th century, but her style is itself quite Victorian, which can be exhausting and overloaded with quaint expressions like: “He was vexed at her deplorable disposition”.

What did I get from it? I guess I can say I read it, and was pleasantly surprised with the quite modern take on things. What is very typical in both Dostoevsky and Tolstoy's works is that they take a sidebar in the storyline. They reflect on the nature of history or the nature of philosophy and the impact it can have on a society.

So it is a “good read” but it takes patience :).