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Covering a span of over 30 years, from 1922 to 1954, and set in the Hotel Metropol in Moscow where Count Alexander Rostov is kept in house arrest, there is a routine to the Count's confinement that makes this book a very relaxing read. The Count at his leisure fills us in on so many things Russian, old and new and we experience the irony of a "Non person" able to live in relative comfort while the Russia of Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Denis Ivanovich" goes on somewhere far away from M
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DNF - I read the first 50 pages and decided life was too short to force myself to finish this slow-paced and seemingly pointless novel. If I was bored out of my mind and had nothing else to read, I’m sure I’d be happy to receive this book and learn more about the Count’s daily existence—the writing is clever enough—but I can’t be bothered when there are so many other books on my want-to-read list that I imagine I’ll enjoy more than this one.
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Wonderfully written book. Old world style and how the Gentleman stays this way.
Enjoyable enough to keep me up late, but still getting up early to find out what happens. I really enjoyed the writing style, and general historical setting as background.
Dec 18, 2016
Jennifer
marked it as to-read
Dec 28, 2016
Juliana Philippa
marked it as to-read
Jan 06, 2017
Steve Anderson
marked it as to-read
Mar 07, 2017
Laura
marked it as maybe-not
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May 31, 2017
MichelleCH
marked it as to-read
Jan 07, 2018
Rebecca
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Jun 05, 2018
Ksmom
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Aug 20, 2018
Kim
marked it as to-read
