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Post by TKennedy on Jun 15, 2020 20:04:03 GMT -5
Anyone read it? I just finished and it was the first book in a long time I literally couldn’t put down.
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Post by t-bob on Jun 15, 2020 20:26:14 GMT -5
How about a review?
I’m a little lazy I’m getting tired in the Internet
you do it in the forum please
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Post by TKennedy on Jun 15, 2020 20:41:22 GMT -5
Well it is about a Russian aristocrat who after returning to Russia from Paris after the revolution was tried on trumped up charges and should have been shot but because he had been given credit for writing a poem sympathetic to the revolution earlier ( actually written by a friend ) his sentence was commuted to exile within the luxurious Hotel Metropol in Moscow, where he already lived, for the rest of his life.
It is a wonderful story about his experiences within those walls, the personalities he encountered and dealt with, and the way he adapted as history unfolded into the 1950’s. Great characters and the hook in the closing pages is a classic line from Casablanca. The dude can write!
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Post by Cornflake on Jun 15, 2020 20:45:02 GMT -5
I hadn't heard of it but your comment got me going to Amazon to reads reviews. May put it on the list. Thanks.
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Post by dradtke on Jun 15, 2020 21:37:42 GMT -5
Added to my list. If I can find my list.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jun 15, 2020 22:38:33 GMT -5
Looks good. Echoes of Doctor Zhivago. Russian poet-aristocrat snarled up in the revolution.
A coincidence: In my novel, The Constable's Tale, I referred to a little 18th-century booklet, The Rules of Civility, that a teacher made young George Washington copy out to teach him about etiquette. (True fact.) I researched the title to see if I might run into copyright problems, and came across a 2012 book of the same name by this author, Towles - his first novel. It looked good, so I made a note to read it, and went ahead and used the title in my book. (Generally you can't copyright a title.) Towles' Rules is still on my to-read list.
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Post by Marshall on Jun 15, 2020 22:51:52 GMT -5
I hadn't heard of it but your comment got me going to Amazon to reads reviews. May put it on the list. Thanks. I'm trying to decide if I should get Amazon Prime. With it you get Amazon Prime Reading. Free download of kindle books. But I find no list of books. At least not one you can search. I really don't care for free shipping. I get that already. But free access to Kindle books, like this one ( normally $13.99 purchase) would be a great bonus. But I have a feeling that the Prime Reading books are limited in selection.
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Post by TKennedy on Jun 25, 2020 22:56:51 GMT -5
After loving Moscow I decided to read the author’s well received first work. Rules Of Civility.
Not sure I’d bother. Very well written but easy for me to put down and other than a minor twist at the end elegantly mundane.
Kind of a chick book written by a man whose grandmother may have been frightened by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Couldn’t help but keep thinking “this is how a man thinks women think”. C+
Anyone read it?
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Post by millring on Jun 26, 2020 5:10:55 GMT -5
After loving Moscow I decided to read the author’s well received first work. Rules Of Civility. Not sure I’d bother. Very well written but easy for me to put down and other than a minor twist at the end elegantly mundane. Kind of a chick book written by a man whose grandmother may have been frightened by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Couldn’t help but keep thinking “this is how a man thinks women think”. C+ Anyone read it? I read enough reviews to give it a pass.
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Post by Marshall on Jun 29, 2020 19:00:45 GMT -5
Started Gentleman. It's GREAT so far.
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Post by Cornflake on Sept 23, 2020 19:44:48 GMT -5
I just finished the book. It's wonderful. A daughter also recommended it to me and I just recommended it to my wife. It was really a pleasure from start to finish.
Alas, I've heard his other book (Rules of Civility?) isn't nearly as good, but this one is good enough for a lifetime.
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Post by TKennedy on Sept 23, 2020 20:40:38 GMT -5
I just finished the book. It's wonderful. A daughter also recommended it to me and I just recommended it to my wife. It was really a pleasure from start to finish. Alas, I've heard his other book (Rules of Civility?) isn't nearly as good, but this one is good enough for a lifetime. Glad you liked it. I sent my copy to a college friend that has written two self published autobiographical books of his own that are not all that bad for that genre. He loved it too. This is his best one talking about his transition from a Navy flight surgeon to a family doc in Idaho, to an Alaskan Airlines MD-80 Captain. www.amazon.com/Steep-Turn-Physicians-Journey-Cockpit/dp/1515009688/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=crawley+david&qid=1600911327&sr=8-1
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Post by drlj on Sept 23, 2020 20:42:50 GMT -5
I read it a couple years ago. It was a very enjoyable read. Good book.
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