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4.3 AVERAGE
4.3 AVERAGE
I adored this book! Fantastic breakdown of the former USSR states, through a fantastically accessible and exquisitely written book.
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One of my favorites books ever. A simple guy walking, asking, writing and looking everything around him. Masterpiece and mandatory one for the ones intriguing in the communist era.
just don’t vibe with the writing style i think
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inspiring
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slow-paced
This is a very long and informative read. You should be prepared for it before starting.
This book is very well written, looking through the collapse of the USSR through a mundane lens, informing you of the goings on of the people of all the regions he had visited. Sprinkled throughout is the political background of each area, so that you can better understand the psyche of the Imperium and what it meant to be native to it and be colonized into it.
Despite this, I sadly found the book to be quite dry. This is likely due to my personal taste and preferred writing style. I found the best part of the book to be the analysis in the last few pages and Ryszard’s flea from Yerevan.
This book is very well written, looking through the collapse of the USSR through a mundane lens, informing you of the goings on of the people of all the regions he had visited. Sprinkled throughout is the political background of each area, so that you can better understand the psyche of the Imperium and what it meant to be native to it and be colonized into it.
Despite this, I sadly found the book to be quite dry. This is likely due to my personal taste and preferred writing style. I found the best part of the book to be the analysis in the last few pages and Ryszard’s flea from Yerevan.
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har landat i att bohemiska reseskildringar är mina favoritböcker. vacker! lättsmält!
As with all of Kapuściński's works: fascinating (people here really live this way?); sobering (people here experienced that?); foreign, and occasionally, all-too-familiar. It was a glimpse into a part of the world, and a particular era, in which not many have had access - the Soviet Union at its height and in its dying days. And not merely Russia, but also Armenia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and countless other smaller towns along the way that don't hold allegiance to a country, but to a people group, or a history, or a lifestyle. As always, I enjoy the way that Kapuściński's books take me out of my Western, technological mindset and show me how people live or lived at the opposite of some spectrum from me.