Books by Nicolai Lilin
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review 1: This book is a sequel to Siberian Education where Nicolai Lilin's violent upbringing prepares him for brutal combat in the Second Chechen War. He has the ability to insert details in the midst of military actions which amplify issues. An old man is shot down and run over by tanks...
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review 1: Rating: more 3 1/2 than 4. Such rating mostly because style of writing was not my favourite. I was struggling a bit with first half of the book (it was slow paced, with a lot of interruptions with sub-stories), but last third makes up for everything. Story itself is interesting. ...
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review 1: Proseguono le avventure di Kolima, questa volta impegnato in Cecenia come cecchino. Aspro racconto di guerra, composto da singoli quadri episodici giustapposti che potrebbero anche avere un ordine temporale diverso. La crudezza delle immagini e la freddezza disincantata del narra...
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review 1: L'argomento interessante, ma il ritmo narrativo è piatto.
review 2: I thought i'd just flick through it but now I am reading it nonstop, loving the detail.
review 2: I thought i'd just flick through it but now I am reading it nonstop, loving the detail.