October 2022 - Fiction Group Read - Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (spoiler thread)

[Alannah]

Please discuss our winner here. If you haven't read the book yet but still want to discuss it, here is our spoiler free thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[LauraT]

Finished yesterday, and liked it quite.
A fresco of New York of the 30s; a love story.
I find Towels write really well: easy to go through, without too much effort.
What do you think? Which is the carachter you've preferred?

[Diana]

I enjoyed Rules of Civility more than A Gentleman in Moscow. It has more dynamics in it. But I didn't find any of the main characters likeable. I sympathised with Dicky and Wallace because they seemed more real to me.

Nevertheless, it was interesting to read about New York at that time. And the plot itself appeared to be entirely unexpected for me (after the first chapter where we see two photos of Tinker, I thought it'd be about war and its consequences).

One more thing that made me wonder is that there are Russian characters in both A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility. It's really interesting to know what attracts Amor Towles so much to Russia and its people.

[LauraT]

I was thinking the same thing Diana! I'd like to know more about this writer and of his love for russian sides!