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the_library_of_ana's review against another edition
2.5
i almost didn’t finish it…i was interested in the story but sometimes it got boring and the writing style wasn’t for me
suvata's review against another edition
3.0
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During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head.
During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head.
hannahpom's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed it much more than I was expecting to - given that I’ve spent so much time in the past few months thinking about social circumstances, crime, and justice this book was valuable in adding an entirely new perspective to that conversation.
cthonautical's review against another edition
5.0
I love books that show a glimpse into a time and place that is just existing.
shervinbr's review against another edition
از طریق پادکست چنل بی با این کتاب و آتیلا آشنا شدم. داستان واقعی مردی به نام آتیلا امبروش که در بحبوحه فروپاشی شوروی وارد مجارستان میشه و با مشقت و پشت کار فراوان به دنبال کار و پول درآوردنه. کتاب لحن خیلی طنزگونه داره و خیلی از جملات جدی رو طوری ادا میکنه که امکان نداره خواننده خنده ش نگیره. در موازات داستان ، اطلاعات خیلی خوبی راجع به تاریخ کشور مجارستان و ناحیه ترنسیلوانیا از ابتدای تشکیل تا دوره ی بعد از کمونیسم داره که برای من که به تاریخ علاقه مندم بسیار جالب بود. و صد البته نقطه قوت کتاب در اینجاست که با اینکه انتهای داستان تقریبا واضح و قابل حدس زدنه اما ابدا خسته کننده نیست و خواننده تا انتها با داستان همراه میمونه.
اگر به داستان های دزد و پلیسی واقعی و البته کشور مجارستان علاقه دارید ، این کتاب توصیه میشه.
اگر به داستان های دزد و پلیسی واقعی و البته کشور مجارستان علاقه دارید ، این کتاب توصیه میشه.
christian_jeanne's review against another edition
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
3.0
“You’re going to make it,"
all of this to get from one communist dictatorship to another.
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You know how they say don't judge a book by its cover? In this case, don't judge a book by its title.
I thought this was just gonna be a fun, happy yet satire read. Its not... Not really.
Its about Communist Hungary-Romania, following the misadventurous exploits of Attila Ambrus, your regular Transylvanian Dennis the Menace.