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Doctor Zhivago
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An entertaining pager turner. Good melodrama. Good dialogue: especial between Yurii and Lara. Way too many similes. The Conclusion and Epilogue drag and seem at bit superfluous. Three and half stars. Would like to see the movie.
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December 1, 2018
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"It was almost as if the snowstorm had caught sight of Yura and, conscious of its power to terrify, roared and howled, doing everything possible to impress him. Turning over and over in the sky, length after length of whiteness unwound over the earth and shrouded it.The blizzard was alone in the world; it had no rival."
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"In the end Nadia said quietly, like an adult: 'You really are mad,' and Nika said in an equally adult tone, 'I'm sorry.'"
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December 2, 2018
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"Move on, move on, I tell you, while your still in one piece. I'll knock the stuffing out of you, preaching at me, you dog's arse. You were made on the tracks, you jellyfish, under your father's very nose. I know your mother, the slut, the mangy cat, the crumpled skirt!"
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December 2, 2018
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"'Antipov's been arrested. They came in the night, searched his flat, turned everything upside down, and took him away this morning. And his wife Daria's in hospital with the typhus. And their kid, Pasha, who's at the Realgymnasium, is alone in the house with his deaf aunt. And they're going to be evicted. I think we should have the boy to stay with us. What did Prov want?' (2.7)"
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December 2, 2018
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"'She has become his slave for life. How has he subjugated her? How does he force her to submit, why does she surrender, why does she gratify his wishes and delight him with her quivering unconcealed shame? Because of his age, her mother's financial dependence on him, his cleverness in frightening her, Lara? No, no, no! That is all nonsense. (2.15)"
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"'She has become his slave for life. How has he subjugated her? How does he force her to submit, why does she surrender, why does she gratify his wishes and delight him with her quivering unconcealed shame? Because of his age, her mother's financial dependence on him, his cleverness in frightening her, Lara? No, no, no! That is all nonsense. (2.15)"
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December 3, 2018
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"'These reminders brought her to just that state of confusion that a lecher requires in a woman. As a result, Lara felt herself sinking even deeper into that nightmare of sensuality which filled her with horror whenever she awoke from it. Here everything was topsy-turvy and few in the face of logic; sharp pain manifested itself by sharp peals of silvery laughter, resistance and refusal meant consent ... (3.5)"
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"'Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantments and to call each thing by its right name, ... (3.7)"
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December 3, 2018
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"'Listen, Pasha, said Lara. 'I am in trouble. You must help me. Don't be frightened and don't question me. But don't ever think we can be like other people. Don't take it so lightly. I am in constant danger. If you love me, if you don't want me to be destroyed, we must not put off our marriage.'
'But that is what I have always wanted,' broke in Pasha. 'Just name the day.'"
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'But that is what I have always wanted,' broke in Pasha. 'Just name the day.'"
December 3, 2018
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12.67%
"'Listen, Pasha, said Lara. 'I am in trouble. You must help me. Don't be frightened and don't question me. But don't ever think we can be like other people. Don't take it so lightly. I am in constant danger. If you love me, if you don't want me to be destroyed, we must not put off our marriage.'
'But that is what I have always wanted,' broke in Pasha. 'Just name the day.'"
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'But that is what I have always wanted,' broke in Pasha. 'Just name the day.'"
December 6, 2018
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"Another reason for his agitation was that he once again experienced the irresistible attraction of this crazy, desperate girl. (4.1)"
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"Another reason for his agitation was that he had once again experienced the irresistible attraction of this crazy, desperate girl. (4.1)"
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"Another reason for his agitation was that he had once again experienced the irresistible attraction of this crazy, desperate girl.
... she let two rooms. One of them had recently become vacant, and Komarovsky took it for Lara. There she was taken a few hours later, only half conscious with brain fever."
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... she let two rooms. One of them had recently become vacant, and Komarovsky took it for Lara. There she was taken a few hours later, only half conscious with brain fever."
December 6, 2018
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"Another reason for his agitation was that he had once again experienced the irresistible attraction of this crazy, desperate girl.
There she was taken a few hours later, only half conscious with brain fever."
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There she was taken a few hours later, only half conscious with brain fever."
December 7, 2018
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"All these people were there together, in one place. But some of them had never known each other, while others failed to recognize each other now. And there were things about them that were never to be known for certain, while others were not to be revealed until a future time, a later meeting. (4.10)"
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December 8, 2018
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"Before he left, however, he received his wife's reply. In sentences broken by sobs and with tear stains and ink spots for punctuation, she begged him not to come back to Moscow but to go straight to the Urals with that wonderful nurse whose progress through life was marked by portents and coincidences so miraculous that her own, Tonia's, modest life could not compete with it. (5.2)"
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"What frightens me about your letter is something else.If I really gave you cause to write in such a way, my behavior must have been ambiguous and I am at fault not only before you but before that other woman whom I am misleading.
It may interest you to know that although we live in the same house i don't know to this day which is Antipov's room. I've never bothered to find out. (5.2)"
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It may interest you to know that although we live in the same house i don't know to this day which is Antipov's room. I've never bothered to find out. (5.2)"
December 10, 2018
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17.57%
"Pasha suspected her of all the deadly sins, disbelieved every word she said, was ready to curse and hate her, but he loved her to distraction and was jealous of her very thoughts, and of the mug she drank from and of the pillow on which she lay. (4.3)"
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December 10, 2018
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"Pasha suspected her of all the deadly sins, disbelieved every word she said, was ready to curse and hate her, but he loved her to distraction and was jealous of her very thoughts, and of the mug she drank from and of the pillow on which she lay. (4.3)
Liudmila sang ... in their honor, with the double refrain 'God give you love and concord,' and a song that began 'Undo the braid, scatter the fair hair.'"
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Liudmila sang ... in their honor, with the double refrain 'God give you love and concord,' and a song that began 'Undo the braid, scatter the fair hair.'"
December 10, 2018
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"(4.7) "Pasha misunderstood her attitude to him. He rebelled against the motherly feeling that all her life had been apart of her affection for him and could not see that such a love was something more, not less, than the ordinary felling of a woman for a man.""
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December 10, 2018
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"Pasha misunderstood her attitude to him. He rebelled against the motherly feeling that all her life had been apart of her affection for him and could not see that such a love was something more, not less, than the ordinary feeling of a woman for a man. (4.7)"
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December 11, 2018
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"On that warm grey morning in the mountains, Zhivago felt sorry for the Tsar, was disturbed at the thought that such diffident reserve and shyness could be the essential characteristics of an oppressor, that a man so weak could imprison, hang, or pardon. (4.12)"
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December 11, 2018
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"She believed that she knew Nurse Antipova inside out and thought that the nurse and the doctor were bound to be attracted to each other. Succumbing to her passion for matchmaking, so deep-rooted in the Latin heart, she was delighted when she found them in each other's company, and would shake her finger and wink slyly at them. This puzzled Antipova and angered the doctor; ... (5.4)"
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December 11, 2018
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"She believed that she knew Nurse Antipova inside out and thought that the nurse and the doctor were bound to be attracted to each other. Succumbing to her passion for matchmaking, so deep-rooted in the Latin heart, she was delighted when she found them in each other's company, and would shake her finger and wink slyly at them. This puzzled Antipova and angered the doctor; ... (5.4)"
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December 11, 2018
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"Why the hell can't a grown-up man talk to a grown-up woman without being at once suspected of some ulterior motive? (5.8)"
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"Why the hell can't a grown-up man talk to a grown-up woman without being at once suspected of some ulterior motive?
Stars and trees meet and converse, flowers talk philosophy at night, stone houses hold meetings. (5.8)"
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Stars and trees meet and converse, flowers talk philosophy at night, stone houses hold meetings. (5.8)"
December 11, 2018
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20.78%
"Why the hell can't a grown-up man talk to a grown-up woman without being at once suspected of some ulterior motive?
Stars and trees meet and converse, flowers talk philosophy at night, stone houses hold meetings. (5.8)"
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Stars and trees meet and converse, flowers talk philosophy at night, stone houses hold meetings. (5.8)"
December 12, 2018
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20.95%
"Then, like a telegram delivered on a train, or like greetings from Meliuzeievo addressed to Yurii Andreievich, there drifted in through the windows a familiar fragrance. It came from somewhere to one side and higher than the level of either garden or wild flowers, and it quietly asserted its excellence over everything else. (5.13)"
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December 12, 2018
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"Then, like a telegram delivered on a train, or like greetings from Meliuzeievo addressed to Yurii Andreievich, there drifted in through the windows a familiar fragrance. It came from somewhere to one side and higher than the level of either garden or wild flowers, and it quietly asserted its excellence over everything else.
... covered with dust from passing trains and think as night ... (5.13)"
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... covered with dust from passing trains and think as night ... (5.13)"
December 12, 2018
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"Then, like a telegram delivered on a train, or like greetings from Meliuzeievo addressed to Yurii Andreievich, there drifted in through the windows a familiar fragrance. It came from somewhere to one side and higher than the level of either garden or wild flowers, and it quietly asserted its excellence over everything else.
... covered with dust from passing trains and thick as night ... (5.13)"
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... covered with dust from passing trains and thick as night ... (5.13)"
December 12, 2018
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"And among the new thoughts, too, was Nurse Antipova, stranded by the war God knows where, about whose past he knew nothing, who never blamed anyone but whose very silence seemed to be a complaint, who was mysteriously reserved and so strong in her reserve. And so was Yurii Andreievich's honest endeavor not to love her ... (5.15)"
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December 13, 2018
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"And among the new thoughts, too, was Nurse Antipova, stranded by the war God knows where, about whose past he knew nothing, who never blamed anyone but whose very silence seemed to be a complaint, who was mysteriously reserved and so strong in her reserve. And so was Yurii Andreievich's honest endeavor not to love her ... (5.15)"
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December 13, 2018
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"And among the new thoughts, too, was Nurse Antipova, stranded by the war God knows where, about whose past he knew nothing, who never blamed anyone but whose very silence seemed to be a complaint, who was mysteriously reserved and so strong in her reserve. And so was Yurii Andreievich's honest endeavor not to love her ... (5.15)"
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December 14, 2018
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"The thunder cleared the dusty, smoke-filled room. Suddenly the elements of life became distinguishable, as apprehensible as electric currents, air and water, desire for happiness, earth, sky.
'How late it is,' said Yurii Andreievich. 'Let's go to bed. The only people I love in the world are you and father.' (6.4)"
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'How late it is,' said Yurii Andreievich. 'Let's go to bed. The only people I love in the world are you and father.' (6.4)"
December 15, 2018
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26.35%
"The thunder cleared the dusty, smoke-filled room. Suddenly the elements of life became distinguishable, as apprehensible as electric currents, air and water, desire for happiness, earth, sky.
'How late it is,' said Yurii Andreievich. 'Let's go to bed. The only people I love in the world are you and father.' (6.4)"
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'How late it is,' said Yurii Andreievich. 'Let's go to bed. The only people I love in the world are you and father.' (6.4)"
December 15, 2018
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27.36%
"I've seen her this year. She stopped on her way through Moscow. I said, 'Where are you off to, silly? Stay here. Come and live with us. We'll find you a job.' But it wasn't any good. she wouldn't. Well, it's her business. She married Pasha with her head, not her heart, she's been crazy ever since. Off she went."
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December 17, 2018
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28.38%
"I've seen her this year. She stopped on her way through Moscow. I said, 'Where are you off to, silly? Stay here. Come and live with us. We'll find you a job.' But it wasn't any good. she wouldn't. Well, it's her business. She married Pasha with her head, not her heart, she's been crazy ever since. Off she went."
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December 17, 2018
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"Markel could not be trusted. At the militia post that he had selected as his political club he did not actually say that his former masters had sucked his blood, but he accused them, instead, of having kept him in ignorance all these years and deliberately concealed from him that man is descended from apes."
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December 18, 2018
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"Why on earth should I know and worry myself sick over every blessed thing. History hasn't consulted me. I have to put up with whatever happens, so why shouldn't I ignore the facts? You tell me my ideas don't correspond to reality. But where is reality in Russia today? As I see it, reality has been so terrorized that it is hiding.
Where is reality today. Good question. In hiding?"
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Where is reality today. Good question. In hiding?"
December 18, 2018
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31.25%
"Why on earth should I know and worry myself sick over every blessed thing. History hasn't consulted me. I have to put up with whatever happens, so why shouldn't I ignore the facts? You tell me my ideas don't correspond to reality. But where is reality in Russia today? As I see it, reality has been so terrorized that it is hiding.
Where is reality today. Good question. In hiding?"
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Where is reality today. Good question. In hiding?"
December 18, 2018
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34.12%
"Why on earth should I know and worry myself sick over every blessed thing. History hasn't consulted me. I have to put up with whatever happens, so why shouldn't I ignore the facts? You tell me my ideas don't correspond to reality. But where is reality in Russia today? As I see it, reality has been so terrorized that it is hiding.
Where is reality today. Good question. In hiding?"
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Where is reality today. Good question. In hiding?"
December 18, 2018
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35.47%
"Why on earth should I know and worry myself sick over every blessed thing. History hasn't consulted me. I have to put up with whatever happens, so why shouldn't I ignore the facts? You tell me my ideas don't correspond to reality. But where is reality in Russia today? As I see it, reality has been so terrorized that it is hiding.
Where is reality today. Good question. In hiding?"
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Where is reality today. Good question. In hiding?"
December 19, 2018
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35.64%
"They were struck by the silence, emptiness, and tidiness of the station. It seemed strange not to be surround by a milling, cursing mob. History had not caught up with this remote provincial life. It had not yet relapsed into savagery, as at the capitals."
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December 26, 2018
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"He was married to a teacher too. All the girls were mad about him, they all fell in love with him. He went off to the war as a volunteer and was killed. Some people say this scourge of ours, Commissar Strelnikov, is Antipov risen from the dead. But that's only a silly rumor, of course. It's most unlikely. (8.10)"
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December 26, 2018
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"A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways--by its theme, subject, situation, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime. (9.4)"
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December 26, 2018
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"A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways--by its theme, subject, situation, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime. (9.4)"
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December 26, 2018
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"A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways--by its theme, subject, situation, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime. (9.4)"
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December 26, 2018
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"You call that work. Leave them alone. You'd only splash the stairs. Better tell me what brought you here. You've been around more than a year and you never found a moment to come till now.
How do you know?
Things get around. Moreover, I saw you in the reading room.
Why didn't you speak to me?
Don't tell me you didn't see me."
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How do you know?
Things get around. Moreover, I saw you in the reading room.
Why didn't you speak to me?
Don't tell me you didn't see me."
December 26, 2018
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41.39%
"You call that work. Leave them alone. You'd only splash the stairs. Better tell me what brought you here. You've been around more than a year and you never found a moment to come till now.
How do you know?
Things get around. Moreover, I saw you in the reading room.
Why didn't you speak to me?
Don't tell me you didn't see me."
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How do you know?
Things get around. Moreover, I saw you in the reading room.
Why didn't you speak to me?
Don't tell me you didn't see me."
December 26, 2018
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"At the thought that Lara might have misunderstood him, and that he had left her with the wrong impression and false hopes, he nearly turned around and galloped straight back, to say what he had left unsaid and above all to take leave of her much more warmly, more tenderly, in a manner more suited to a last farewell."
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January 1, 2019
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"We only miss our hats when our heads have been chopped off. (10.4)"
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"We only miss our hats when our heads have been chopped off. (10.4)
What are students for if not for girls to fall in love with! (10.5)"
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What are students for if not for girls to fall in love with! (10.5)"
January 1, 2019
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42.91%
"We only miss our hats when our heads have been chopped off. (10.4)
What are students for if not for girls to fall in love with! (10.5)
Counted among the gods at whose feet the revolution had laid its gifts and its burnt offerings, they sat silent and grim as idols. They had become dehumanized by political conceit."
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What are students for if not for girls to fall in love with! (10.5)
Counted among the gods at whose feet the revolution had laid its gifts and its burnt offerings, they sat silent and grim as idols. They had become dehumanized by political conceit."
January 1, 2019
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42.91%
"We only miss our hats when our heads have been chopped off. (10.4)
What are students for if not for girls to fall in love with! (10.5)
Counted among the gods at whose feet the revolution had laid its gifts and its burnt offerings, they sat silent and grim as idols. They had become dehumanized by political conceit. (10.6)"
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What are students for if not for girls to fall in love with! (10.5)
Counted among the gods at whose feet the revolution had laid its gifts and its burnt offerings, they sat silent and grim as idols. They had become dehumanized by political conceit. (10.6)"
January 1, 2019
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43.92%
"Not only did he forgive him his lack of manners, which he regarded as the expression of a true revolutionary temperament, but he delighted in his insolence as an infatuated woman may be pleased by the arrogant ways of a masterful lover. (10.6)"
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January 1, 2019
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"Not only did he forgive him his lack of manners, which he regarded as the expression of a true revolutionary temperament, but he delighted in his insolence as an infatuated woman may be pleased by the arrogant ways of a masterful lover. (10.6)
Hooliganism was considered a sign of black reaction in the Soviet zone, while in the White zone it was regarded as Bolshevism. (10.7)"
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Hooliganism was considered a sign of black reaction in the Soviet zone, while in the White zone it was regarded as Bolshevism. (10.7)"
January 2, 2019
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44.26%
"Hooliganism was considered a sign of black reaction in the Soviet zone, while in the White zone it was regarded as Bolshevism. (10.7)
It was more than a year since Yurii Andreievich had been taken prisoner by the partisans. (11.1)"
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It was more than a year since Yurii Andreievich had been taken prisoner by the partisans. (11.1)"
January 3, 2019
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44.43%
"Hooliganism was considered a sign of black reaction in the Soviet zone, while in the White zone it was regarded as Bolshevism. (10.7)
It was more than a year since Yurii Andreievich had been taken prisoner by the partisans. (11.1)"
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It was more than a year since Yurii Andreievich had been taken prisoner by the partisans. (11.1)"
January 3, 2019
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44.43%
"It was a bleak, rainy afternoon with only two colors: wherever the light fell it was white, everywhere else it was black; and the doctor's mood was of the same bleak simplification unsoftened by transitions and half-tones. (11.2)"
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January 3, 2019
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"It was a bleak, rainy afternoon with only two colors: wherever the light fell it was white, everywhere else it was black; and the doctor's mood was of the same bleak simplification unsoftened by transitions and half-tones. (11.2)
"... with an expression suggesting a readiness to greet him if he knew her or to remain anonymous if he did not."
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"... with an expression suggesting a readiness to greet him if he knew her or to remain anonymous if he did not."
January 4, 2019
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"Yurii Andreievich had no rifle; he lay on the grass watching the course of the engagement. All his sympathies were on the side of these heroically dying children. With all his heart he wished them success. They belonged to families who were probably akin to him in spirit, in education, in moral discipline and values."
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January 7, 2019
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45.44%
"You cut the study group again last night. You have an atrophied social sense, just like an illiterate peasant woman or a bourgeois diehard. And yet you are a doctor, you are well read, I believe you even write. How do you explain it?"
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January 7, 2019
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"You cut the study group again last night. You have an atrophied social sense, just like an illiterate peasant woman or a bourgeois diehard. And yet you are a doctor, you are well read, I believe you even write. How do you explain it?
Tonia you are my everlasting reproach. Lara, I daren't speak your name for fear of gasping out my life. Oh God! God!"
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Tonia you are my everlasting reproach. Lara, I daren't speak your name for fear of gasping out my life. Oh God! God!"
January 7, 2019
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45.61%
"You cut the study group again last night. You have an atrophied social sense, just like an illiterate peasant woman or a bourgeois diehard. And yet you are a doctor, you are well read, I believe you even write. How do you explain it?
Tonia you are my everlasting reproach. Lara, I daren't speak your name for fear of gasping out my life."
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Tonia you are my everlasting reproach. Lara, I daren't speak your name for fear of gasping out my life."
January 8, 2019
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46.28%
"... his personality awoke in him its full primordial strength, and compelling nature, the forrest, the afterglow, and everything else visible to be transfigured into a similarly primordial and all-embracing likeness of a girl. Closing his eyes, "Lara" he whispered and thought, addressing the whole of his life, all God's earth, all the sunlit space spread out before him."
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January 8, 2019
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"... his personality awoke in him its full primordial strength, and compelling nature, the forrest, the afterglow, and everything else visible to be transfigured into a similarly primordial and all-embracing likeness of a girl. Closing his eyes, "Lara" he whispered and thought, addressing the whole of his life, all God's earth, all the sunlit space spread out before him."
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January 8, 2019
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"The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. In the case of some men, compassion for a woman exceeds all measure and transports her to an unreal, entirely imaginary world.
How he loved her. How beautiful she was. In exactly the way he had always thought and dreamed and wanted.
She was lovely by virtue of the matchless simplicity and swift line that the Creator had ..."
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How he loved her. How beautiful she was. In exactly the way he had always thought and dreamed and wanted.
She was lovely by virtue of the matchless simplicity and swift line that the Creator had ..."
January 8, 2019
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50.68%
"The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. In the case of some men, compassion for a woman exceeds all measure and transports her to an unreal, entirely imaginary world.
How he loved her. How beautiful she was. In exactly the way he had always thought and dreamed and wanted.
She was lovely by virtue of the matchless simplicity and swift line that the Creator had ..."
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How he loved her. How beautiful she was. In exactly the way he had always thought and dreamed and wanted.
She was lovely by virtue of the matchless simplicity and swift line that the Creator had ..."
January 9, 2019
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50.84%
"The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. In the case of some men, compassion for a woman exceeds all measure and transports her to an unreal, entirely imaginary world.
How he loved her. How beautiful she was. In exactly the way he had always thought and dreamed and wanted.
She was lovely by virtue of the matchless simplicity and swift line that the Creator had ..."
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How he loved her. How beautiful she was. In exactly the way he had always thought and dreamed and wanted.
She was lovely by virtue of the matchless simplicity and swift line that the Creator had ..."
January 12, 2019
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50.84%
"The group in front of the building was joined by a wild-looking, emaciated man, black with grime, with a bag flung over his shoulder, and carrying a stick.
This was Yurii Andreievich.
(13.2)"
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This was Yurii Andreievich.
(13.2)"
January 13, 2019
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51.18%
"These scenes and incidents had the strangeness of the transcendental, as if they were snatches torn from lives on other planets that had somehow drifted to the earth. Only nature had remained true to history and appeared in the guise it assumed in modern art.
Now and then there was a quiet, pale grey, dark rose evening, with birches, black and fine as script against the afterglow ..."
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Now and then there was a quiet, pale grey, dark rose evening, with birches, black and fine as script against the afterglow ..."
January 13, 2019
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51.18%
"These scenes and incidents had the strangeness of the transcendental, as if they were snatches torn from lives on other planets that had somehow drifted to the earth. Only nature had remained true to history and appeared in the guise it assumed in modern art.
Now and then there was a quiet, pale grey, dark rose evening, with birches, black and fine as script against the afterglow ...
I'm made with joy."
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Now and then there was a quiet, pale grey, dark rose evening, with birches, black and fine as script against the afterglow ...
I'm made with joy."
January 13, 2019
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51.18%
"These scenes and incidents had the strangeness of the transcendental, as if they were snatches torn from lives on other planets that had somehow drifted to the earth. Only nature had remained true to history and appeared in the guise it assumed in modern art.
Now and then there was a quiet, pale grey, dark rose evening, with birches, black and fine as script against the afterglow ...
I'm mad with joy."
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Now and then there was a quiet, pale grey, dark rose evening, with birches, black and fine as script against the afterglow ...
I'm mad with joy."
January 14, 2019
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52.53%
"It was hardly likely that Samdeviatov helped Lara out of sheer goodness of heart. He thought of Samdeviatov's free and easy ways and Lara's rashness as a woman. There must surely be something between them.
The dry Kulabish logs crackled merrily and stormed into a blaze, and, as they caught, Yurii Andreievich's blind jealously turned from the merest suppositions into certainty."
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The dry Kulabish logs crackled merrily and stormed into a blaze, and, as they caught, Yurii Andreievich's blind jealously turned from the merest suppositions into certainty."
January 14, 2019
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52.53%
"It was hardly likely that Samdeviatov helped Lara out of sheer goodness of heart. He thought of Samdeviatov's free and easy ways and Lara's rashness as a woman. There must surely be something between them.
The dry Kulabish logs crackled merrily and stormed into a blaze, and, as they caught, Yurii Andreievich's blind jealously turned from the merest suppositions into certainty."
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The dry Kulabish logs crackled merrily and stormed into a blaze, and, as they caught, Yurii Andreievich's blind jealously turned from the merest suppositions into certainty."
January 14, 2019
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52.53%
"How silly his way of feeling would seem to anyone outside! How different was the way strong, practical, efficient, handsome males, such as Samdeviatov, lived and spoke and acted! And why should Lara be expected to prefer his weakness and the dark, obscure, unrealistic language of his love. Did she need this confusion? Did she herself want to be what she was to him?"
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January 15, 2019
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53.21%
"... they were united by what separated them from the rest of the world."
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January 15, 2019
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53.21%
"... they were united by what separated them from the rest of the world.
Of course you must go back to your family. I won't keep you a day more than necessary. (Ha!)"
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Of course you must go back to your family. I won't keep you a day more than necessary. (Ha!)"
January 15, 2019
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53.21%
"... they were united by what separated them from the rest of the world.
Of course you must go back to your family. I won't keep you a day more than necessary. (Ha!)
Your father was a Siberian millionaire who committed suicide, your wife is the daughter of a local landowner and industrialist, you were with the partisans and you ran away. ... your a deserter."
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Of course you must go back to your family. I won't keep you a day more than necessary. (Ha!)
Your father was a Siberian millionaire who committed suicide, your wife is the daughter of a local landowner and industrialist, you were with the partisans and you ran away. ... your a deserter."
January 15, 2019
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53.21%
"... they were united by what separated them from the rest of the world.
Of course you must go back to your family. I won't keep you a day more than necessary. (Ha!)
Your father was a Siberian millionaire who committed suicide, your wife is the daughter of a local landowner and industrialist, you were with the partisans and you ran away. ... your a deserter.
I'm living on a volcano as it is."
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Of course you must go back to your family. I won't keep you a day more than necessary. (Ha!)
Your father was a Siberian millionaire who committed suicide, your wife is the daughter of a local landowner and industrialist, you were with the partisans and you ran away. ... your a deserter.
I'm living on a volcano as it is."
January 15, 2019
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53.72%
"How can you, Yurochka! I am talking seriously, and you pay me compliments as though we were in a drawing room. What am I like? There's something broken in me, there's something broken in my whole life. I discovered life much too early, I was made to discover it, and I was made to see it from the very worst side--a cheap, distorted version of it--through the eyes of a self-assured, elderly parasite, who took advantage"
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January 15, 2019
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53.72%
"... you pay me compliments as though we were in a drawing room. What am I like? There's something broken in me, there's something broken in my whole life. I discovered life much too early, I was made to discover it, and I was made to see it from the very worst side--a cheap, distorted version of it--through the eyes of a self-assured, elderly parasite, who took advantage ... and allowed himself whatever he fancied."
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January 16, 2019
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54.05%
"Perhaps there is something in your loathing that keeps you in subjection to him more than to any other man whom you love of your own free will ...
What a terrible thing to say! And as usual, the way you put it makes me feel that this thing, unnatural as it is, seems to be true.
Don't be upset, Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational ..."
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What a terrible thing to say! And as usual, the way you put it makes me feel that this thing, unnatural as it is, seems to be true.
Don't be upset, Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational ..."
January 16, 2019
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54.22%
"...if by some miracle, somewhere, I could see ... Pasha's desk ... even if it were at the end of the earth--I would crawl to it on my knees. Everything in me would respond. I could never hold out against the call of the past, of loyalty. There is nothing I wouldn't sacrifice, however precious. Even you. Even our love, so carefree, so spontaneous, so natural. Oh, forgive me! I don't mean that. It isn't true!"
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January 20, 2019
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56.59%
"You must get rid of this obsession--he's frighten you for life. You know I'm with you. I'll kill him if necessary, if you tell me to."
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January 20, 2019
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56.76%
"You must get rid of this obsession--he's frighten you for life. You know I'm with you. I'll kill him if necessary, if you tell me to."
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January 21, 2019
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56.59%
"It was half a year now since all the ratholes had been stopped up. Yurii Andreievich watched for new ones, plugging them up in time. They also kept a big, fluffy tomcat who spent his time in immobile contemplation, looking enigmatic. The rats were still in the house, but they were now more cautious."
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January 22, 2019
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57.43%
"Often since then I have tried to define and give a name to the enchantment ...
If I had touched you ... a spark would have lit up the room and either killed me on the spot or charged me for the whole of my life with magnetic waves of sorrow and longing.
If it is so painful to love and be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love."
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If I had touched you ... a spark would have lit up the room and either killed me on the spot or charged me for the whole of my life with magnetic waves of sorrow and longing.
If it is so painful to love and be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love."
January 22, 2019
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57.43%
"Often ... I have tried to define and give a name to the enchantment ...
If I had touched you ... a spark would have lit up the room and either killed me on the spot or charged me for the whole of my life with magnetic waves of sorrow and longing.
If it is so painful to love and be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love."
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If I had touched you ... a spark would have lit up the room and either killed me on the spot or charged me for the whole of my life with magnetic waves of sorrow and longing.
If it is so painful to love and be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love."
January 23, 2019
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57.43%
"Of course, to go to that wilderness in winter, without food, without strength or hope--it's utter madness. But why not, my love! Let's be mad, if there is nothing except madness left to us."
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January 23, 2019
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57.43%
"Of course, to go to that wilderness in winter, without food, without strength or hope--it's utter madness. But why not, my love! Let's be mad, if there is nothing except madness left to us.
And we'll cut and use more logs in a week than a careful housewife would use in a year in peaceful times."
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And we'll cut and use more logs in a week than a careful housewife would use in a year in peaceful times."
January 23, 2019
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57.43%
"Of course, to go to that wilderness in winter, without food, without strength or hope--it's utter madness. But why not, my love! Let's be mad, if there is nothing except madness left to us.
And we'll cut and use more logs in a week than a careful housewife would use in a year in peaceful times.
He decided that she was referring pregnancy, probably a false pregnancy, and he said, "I know."
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And we'll cut and use more logs in a week than a careful housewife would use in a year in peaceful times.
He decided that she was referring pregnancy, probably a false pregnancy, and he said, "I know."
January 23, 2019
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60.64%
"Of course, to go to that wilderness in winter, without food, without strength or hope--it's utter madness. But why not, my love! Let's be mad, if there is nothing except madness left to us.
And we'll cut and use more logs in a week than a careful housewife would use in a year in peaceful times.
He decided that she was referring pregnancy, probably a false pregnancy, and he said, "I know."
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And we'll cut and use more logs in a week than a careful housewife would use in a year in peaceful times.
He decided that she was referring pregnancy, probably a false pregnancy, and he said, "I know."
January 25, 2019
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Finished Reading
July 1, 2019
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Comments Showing 1-50 of 135 (135 new)
Thank you, Matt! - )Another Russian novel!
The movie is beautiful. It is one that I watch every time it is on.
Thank you, Beth! - )I'm sure I've seen snippets of it, but now that I know the whole story I'm more curious to see the movie.
Thank you, Teodora! - )
Thank you, Thomas! - )Not a great book, but fun to read and entertaining.
It’s definitely on my list, but there’s so many books to read and not nearly enough time!
See both versions of the movie! This is a comment I made to myself back in 2014 when I read the book:"Whoa, Knightley-Matheson version is excellent. More complete, and missing the half-brother character that was in the 1965 version. I think Lean (the director of the '65 film) made that guy up."
The David Lean version is pretty much the love story of Yuri and Lara.
Thomas wrote: "It’s definitely on my list, but there’s so many books to read and not nearly enough time!"Agreed. But books have infinite patience and will wait for us to get to them.
MK wrote: "See both versions of the movie! This is a comment I made to myself back in 2014 when I read the book:"Whoa, Knightley-Matheson version is excellent. More complete, and missing the half-brother ch..."
Interesting, about the second movie. Imho, the love story is about all there is here. - )
Thank you, MK! - )I had more fun than I thought I would.
Thank you, Lars! - )Nice to hear from you.
Mark Andre wrote: "Interesting, about the second movie. Imho, the love story is about all there is here. - )"I liked the non-love story parts of the book so much more! The history around the revolutions leading up to the Big Revolution. The White Army, the Red, all of it. This was one of the books I immersed myself in. The ones I spend a long time with are usually the ones I love best :).
I completely agree with the interestingness of the backdrop story: Russia + the Revolution. Sort of like the Civil War in Gone With the Wind. Imho, the real calamity in post Revolutionary Russia was 100 or a 1000 times worse than the picture Pasternak paints. I'm sure, however, that when the book first came out at the beginning of the Cold War it was considered revelatory. - )
Good point on "GWTW" and the Civil War!Doctor Zhivago had to be smuggled out of the Soviet Union to be published. I think the American CIA had something to do with it, not sure not.. "Revelatory" is probably an understatement! :p
Actually, I think Pasternak blunted the picture on purpose, somewhat, if I recall correctly (too blunt and his life was at risk). It's been awhile since I read it.
Thank you. Actually, I have to credit my wife with the GWTW analogy. Yes, I'm sure he toned it down for safety reasons. Yes, the first printing was in Italy for some reason. - )
Thank you, Michael! - )Very nice to meet you.
Mark André wrote: "Thank you. Actually, I have to credit my wife with the GWTW analogy. Yes, I'm sure he toned it down for safety reasons. Yes, the first printing was in Italy for some reason. - )"Clever wife! :)
Yes, Italy! That's right. TY :)
MK wrote: "Mark André wrote: "Thank you. Actually, I have to credit my wife with the GWTW analogy. Yes, I'm sure he toned it down for safety reasons. Yes, the first printing was in Italy for some reason. - )"..."Cool! - )
Thank you, Sud666! - )Nice to hear from you.
The photography in the movie is gorgeous. The plot has been simplified so that the movie would not be 8 hours long. 😉
Rosemarie wrote: "The photography in the movie is gorgeous. The plot has been simplified so that the movie would not be 8 hours long. 😉"Ahhh! How many wonderful novels have they tried to squeeze into two hours. - )
Thank you, etherealfire! - )A good book, not a great book, but fun to read.
Thank you, Elena! - )Now I have to see the movie!
Thank you, Brian! - )Nice to hear from you.
This sounds like one of those books where the movie is better than the book. I've come across that myself on some of Alistair MacLean's books. They're good, but some of the movie versions are better.
Thank you, Rose! - )Very nice to meet you. Lovely picture of your family. So I wondered, two sons and their girlfriends, two daughters and their boyfriends, or one and one?
Thank you, Alla! - )Very nice to meet you.
Thank you, Belinda! - )Nice to hear from you.
David wrote: "This sounds like one of those books where the movie is better than the book. I've come across that myself on some of Alistair MacLean's books. They're good, but some of the movie versions are better."Thank you, David! - ) Very nice to meet you.
Since I haven't seen the movie yet I can't make that comparison, but I really like the idea: movies that are better than the books they came from. The only two examples that quickly come to mind are Twelve Angry Men and Amadeus both of which were plays.
Thank you, kostas! - )Very nice to meet you.
Thank you, Mischenko! - )Nice to hear from you.
Thank you, Erth! - )Nice to hear from you. Not great, but fun to read.
Luís wrote: "I want to see the movie too."Thank you, Luís! - ) You gave me a good chuckle!
Thank you, Annie (*)! - )Nice to hear from you.
Thank you, Med! - )Nice to hear from you.
Thank you, Alexander! - )Nice to hear form you.
Thank you, Apollo! - )Very nice to meet you.
Thank you, Charlotte! - )Now to the movie!
Thank you, Armin! - )Nice to hear from you.
Thank you, Donald! - )Nice to hear from you.
Thank you, Suzie! - )
Thank you, Dream.m! - )
Thank you, Jessica! - )Even though it had some flaws it was an entertaining read.
Thank you, Whispering! - )Nice to hear from you.
Thank you, Luffy! - )Nice to hear from you.
Thank you, Anastasia! - )Very nice to meet you.
"He's outside looking in?" No! That's old doctor Tim. Um? There is a thread titled Confessions and I think there is a new one because I've started reading, but you know, commuters (another bad joke) are not my fort(e). But we can also talk here, Because its thread and I can do what I want! Must be the weather ...
Outside looking in? A little 'Floyd' there, Marky?
I guess I'll have to see the movie now.