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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pain of the generation,
By o_cassidi@yahoo.com (Honolulu, HI) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Island of Crimea (Paperback)
This book by Aksyonov is definately nowhere near "crap" like some reader wrote . Ironically , the same reader refferes to A.Rybakov ( !!! ) as a "good Russian modern author". Well , I guess the same reader preffers Pat Boone over Elvis too . Pity, pity, pity on that reader . The Island ( like most of Aksyonov's works ) has a great deal of pain and tortured social and civic selves of the people who are trapped between their love for Russia and grim Communist reality of the USSR . And again , like many other Aksyonov works , the Island might be a bit too difficult to fully understand and relate to for most of the Westerners . It is hard for the one who never experienced the gloom and doom of living in the country of the "proletariat's dictatorship" to fully believe that it was REALLY that bad . In this book the Island is a model of what modern Russia could have been if not for the violent Communist coup of 1917 that brought all the pain and misery in the world to Russia . The Island of Crimea is a great book ,well-written , with enough joy and enough pain to be read and liked by many .
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent book on multiple levels,
By Al B. (Rome, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Island of Crimea (Paperback)
1. Fun to read 2. Amazingly prescient -- anticipates CNN, constant media coverage, etc. before these were ever invented in the West -- how someone in state-censored Russia could have anticipated and described it is a wonder. 3. An excellent satire, not just of Russian and communist mores and values, but also of Western mores and values as well. 4. It was haunting to read this book just as the turnover of Hong Kong to China was occurring -- many of the characters' comments in this book anticipated the same things being said 10-20 years later in Time and Newsweek.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful tragicomedy about Brezhnevian Soviet Union,
By A Customer
This review is from: Island of Crimea (Paperback)
The only thing that's the absolute crap is the "review" above. The book is splendid, funny and deeply moving account about Russian character and communist bureaucracy. If you like Josef Skvorecky, I urge you to read this.
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