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A review by rkaufman13
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
3.0
Oh Russian fiction.
I wish I had "gotten" this-- a very dear friend recommended this book, plus it's one of Daniel Radcliffe's favorite reads and that should count for SOMEthing, right? But alas, I just think I'm not cut out for allegorical Russian fiction from the 1930s.
Parts of this book were very sweet, parts were fascinating. But the "humor" was, I fear, entirely lost on me, and the fact that it takes basically half the book before anything starts HAPPENING was just...ugh.
I also hate patronymics. Sorry. :(
I wish I had "gotten" this-- a very dear friend recommended this book, plus it's one of Daniel Radcliffe's favorite reads and that should count for SOMEthing, right? But alas, I just think I'm not cut out for allegorical Russian fiction from the 1930s.
Parts of this book were very sweet, parts were fascinating. But the "humor" was, I fear, entirely lost on me, and the fact that it takes basically half the book before anything starts HAPPENING was just...ugh.
I also hate patronymics. Sorry. :(