books about: russians

books about: russians

books:

Nuremberg Brewstation Sherwood RVD-6090R... His Russians

Public Domain Books, 2004

Should be your First Kindle Purchase...for Free!
How can you go wrong with this? Some of the great classics from Chekhov, Tolstoy, Turgenev and a few other surprising gems I'd never read before. To read the Overcoat again, after about 20 years, was a true delight. There's something so real, palpable and ...

Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)

Leo Tolstoy

Penguin Classics, 2004

great book, great condition!
I needed a copy of Anna Karenina quickly because I was in rehearsals for the play version. Barnes and Noble was charging $17, I got mine for $5 and it was like new. And quickly too, within a week!

Absurdistan: A Novel

Random House, 2006

Draws blood while making you howl with laughter.
I spent 1993 in Russia. In retrospect, I can see it hurtling toward the state of affairs so brilliantly, gruesomely, and hilariously described by Gary Shteyngart, who, I don't think it's too strong to say, is a weird sort of genius. Absurdistan is a rambling, ...

Anna Karenina

Public Domain Books, 1998

Will re-read slowly
I read this straight through (which I wouldn't recommend-it was originally written and published as a serial in a newspaper over several years). It's a bit overwhelming in the sense that the characters are so well drawn that they deserve some pondering. I will ...

City of Thieves: A Novel

David Benioff

Plume, 2009

Storytelling at its finest
"City of Thieves" captured my interest and imagination from the very first page. A story within a story, "Thieves" traces the harrowing journey of two unlikely partners through a Leningrad under siege as told by a young man whose grandparents survived. Alternating ...

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

John Vaillant

Knopf, 2010

Adventure, natural history, politics, psychology, and more... it's all there!
The Tiger is an amazing book in so many ways. You come away from it feeling that you have a very thorough understanding not only of tigers and tiger attacks but also of the history, politics, terrain, people, customs, weather, philosophy and just about anything else ...

Winter Garden: Enhanced Special Edition

St. Martin's Press, 2010

great book
I am becoming a real FAN of Kristin Hanna's books. I was turned on to her books by a friend of mine who loves reading and although I have never been a big fiction/romance book reader, I'm finding that in my retirement I now enjoy a little "escapism" and her books ...

Russian Debutante's Handbook

Gary Shteyngart

Riverhead Trade, 2003

Not bad for the debut
I'll start with the bad points. This novel could easily have been about 100 pages shorter. As it stands, it's too long and at times starts dragging. Despite its length, the plot is still full of holes and numerous side stories are often left unfinished. Perhaps, ...

War and Peace (Vintage Classics)

Leo Tolstoy

Vintage, 2008

Leo's magnum opus
First, I'm a active 72 year old man that began reading more while recovering from an injury. After reading Anna Karenina, I figured why not. This translation of War and Peace is a very readable story and held my interest all the way to the Epilogue part 2, where ...

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 1993

Prompt service
The book I ordered was in the exact condition as described and item was shipped to me promptly!

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

Slavomir Rawicz

The Lyons Press, 2006

The Long Walk
This was a very good read. I enjoy non fiction adventure that doesn't require a great amount of concentration, so this one hit the spot- it is also a very compelling story. I look forward to seeing the movie soon!

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

NAL Trade, 2009

A Voice for the Countless
"One Day in the Life..." is stark, humane, and ceaselessly hopeful. Solzhenitsyn spend years in labor camps and exile, and he filters those experiences into this tale of one prisoner going through a day in the freezing wastelands of Siberia. Ivan has a ten-year ...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Bantam Classics)

Leo Tolstoy

Bantam Dell, 1981

Deep...
A real classics and a must read for anyone. What if we all lived our whole lives wrong...?

The Brothers Karamazov, with active table of contents, improved 8/8/2010

B&R Samizdat Express, 2009

Reading pleasure
I am reviewing the Kindle version only. It was formatted perfectly with no misspellings. I was in the middle of reading an old paperback copy when I bought my kindle. It was hard to read because the words went into the spine. Much better reading experience on my Kindle!

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

The McDuff translation blows away Pevear / Volokhonsky
I have now read this stunning book twice. The first time was about 5 years ago in the much over-hyped Pevear / Volokhonsky translation. The book was really good, and had some powerful sections, but on the whole I found myself struggling to finish. It was quite ...