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saralynnburnett's review against another edition
5.0
Most Dumas fans don't like this book as much as his others, but I loved it. It tells of a journey through Russia and has some of the most beautiful descriptive passages I've ever read.
romankurys's review against another edition
1.0
I feel terrible rating this 1 star, considering this is Alexandre Dumas were talking about here.
This novel was such a drag of a read, though, where I can’t rate it as anything other then 1 star.
I DNF’d this ten times. Maybe more. I DNF’d after every chapter. It was just awful.
The story has no point to it, really. The characters feel like cut outs from a history textbook. This entire book feels like it should just be a textbook for someone interested in studying Czarist Russia.
In itself I don’t mind the setting, it’s fine but I’d be reading about the main character arriving and doing his thing, I’d be getting into it and then BAM: welcome to the excessively descriptive 50 pages long sidetrack which describes political and historical context with 0 relationship to the main storyline. And it doesn’t connect them either.
About 50 pages of the book at the end are manageable. The actual main story could’ve been good. But the rest just felt like a lesson in history, which I was not interested in.
I can’t even say that I would classify this as a Historical Fiction. More then half of the book is a non fiction textbook.
I’d strongly advise you to avoid this and move on to read something else from Dumas extensive catalogue of novels.
Unless, of course, you’re in a mood for a lesson in Russian history, then by all means, have at it.
Roman
This novel was such a drag of a read, though, where I can’t rate it as anything other then 1 star.
I DNF’d this ten times. Maybe more. I DNF’d after every chapter. It was just awful.
The story has no point to it, really. The characters feel like cut outs from a history textbook. This entire book feels like it should just be a textbook for someone interested in studying Czarist Russia.
In itself I don’t mind the setting, it’s fine but I’d be reading about the main character arriving and doing his thing, I’d be getting into it and then BAM: welcome to the excessively descriptive 50 pages long sidetrack which describes political and historical context with 0 relationship to the main storyline. And it doesn’t connect them either.
About 50 pages of the book at the end are manageable. The actual main story could’ve been good. But the rest just felt like a lesson in history, which I was not interested in.
I can’t even say that I would classify this as a Historical Fiction. More then half of the book is a non fiction textbook.
I’d strongly advise you to avoid this and move on to read something else from Dumas extensive catalogue of novels.
Unless, of course, you’re in a mood for a lesson in Russian history, then by all means, have at it.
Roman
romankurys's review against another edition
1.0
I feel terrible rating this 1 star, considering this is Alexandre Dumas were talking about here.
This novel was such a drag of a read, though, where I can’t rate it as anything other then 1 star.
I DNF’d this ten times. Maybe more. I DNF’d after every chapter. It was just awful.
The story has no point to it, really. The characters feel like cut outs from a history textbook. This entire book feels like it should just be a textbook for someone interested in studying Czarist Russia.
In itself I don’t mind the setting, it’s fine but I’d be reading about the main character arriving and doing his thing, I’d be getting into it and then BAM: welcome to the excessively descriptive 50 pages long sidetrack which describes political and historical context with 0 relationship to the main storyline. And it doesn’t connect them either.
About 50 pages of the book at the end are manageable. The actual main story could’ve been good. But the rest just felt like a lesson in history, which I was not interested in.
I can’t even say that I would classify this as a Historical Fiction. More then half of the book is a non fiction textbook.
I’d strongly advise you to avoid this and move on to read something else from Dumas extensive catalogue of novels.
Unless, of course, you’re in a mood for a lesson in Russian history, then by all means, have at it.
Roman
This novel was such a drag of a read, though, where I can’t rate it as anything other then 1 star.
I DNF’d this ten times. Maybe more. I DNF’d after every chapter. It was just awful.
The story has no point to it, really. The characters feel like cut outs from a history textbook. This entire book feels like it should just be a textbook for someone interested in studying Czarist Russia.
In itself I don’t mind the setting, it’s fine but I’d be reading about the main character arriving and doing his thing, I’d be getting into it and then BAM: welcome to the excessively descriptive 50 pages long sidetrack which describes political and historical context with 0 relationship to the main storyline. And it doesn’t connect them either.
About 50 pages of the book at the end are manageable. The actual main story could’ve been good. But the rest just felt like a lesson in history, which I was not interested in.
I can’t even say that I would classify this as a Historical Fiction. More then half of the book is a non fiction textbook.
I’d strongly advise you to avoid this and move on to read something else from Dumas extensive catalogue of novels.
Unless, of course, you’re in a mood for a lesson in Russian history, then by all means, have at it.
Roman
saralynnburnett's review
5.0
Most Dumas fans don't like this book as much as his others, but I loved it. It tells of a journey through Russia and has some of the most beautiful descriptive passages I've ever read.
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