I read War and Peace when I was 12! An irritating person at the synagogue essentially dared me to by jokingly asking if I'd read it every time I encountered him. "I liked the peace bits, got bored during the war," is what I said at the time.

(Now, having just seen the musical Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet and also seeing someone on my Tumblr enthusiastically liveblog their way through it, I have been thinking about it again for the first time in almost twenty years. Maybe someday I'll try again!)