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sadiereadsagain 's review for:
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
The quote on the front cover of my copy hailing this as "the greatest love story of all time" is, quite frankly, a lie. This is the story of a man who can't commit and uses political circumstance to do his dirty work for him. As a lead character, he left me very empty and unable to care about him.
Having said that, I actually enjoyed the book. I can't put my finger on why... Lara made me want to slap her with her clunky dialogue ("don't you think?"), Antipov's character is disappointingly washed over, and the tangents into political and religious soliloquies grated on me just the way the farming and politics ones in Anna Karenina did.
But it was readable, the story unfolded well and my interest was never lost. A lukewarm read.
Having said that, I actually enjoyed the book. I can't put my finger on why... Lara made me want to slap her with her clunky dialogue ("don't you think?"), Antipov's character is disappointingly washed over, and the tangents into political and religious soliloquies grated on me just the way the farming and politics ones in Anna Karenina did.
But it was readable, the story unfolded well and my interest was never lost. A lukewarm read.