Doktor Schiwago

This was a slug of a book, and I can't quite understand why it's such a classic. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Gogol .. are all heavy reading, but you can appreciate the quality of their writing and plotting. But this one just fell apart into disjointed segments of people's lives, their hardships during and after of the Russian revolution, told in different voices and styles. Sometimes going into heavy unnecessary detail with mundane conversations, sometimes glossing over life-changing events with spare sentences. And all that never made me care one bit about the characters.

Or maybe I did like them a bit at the beginning. But then the book become such a bore, that I simply got angrier at it, than it deserves?