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Day Of The Oprichnik (2011)

by Vladimir Sorokin(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0374134758 (ISBN13: 9780374134754)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: This was the Russian contender for the World Cup of Literature. There were things I liked about it and things I REALLY didn't like about it. So, what I liked--I am really interested in Russian history and this was an interesting take on what Russia would be like in a tsarist regime, but in the future, that was intriguing. Though this was a translation, you could tell the author, Sorokin, has a skill at writing. For what I didn't like, There were a few drug-induced dream sequences that were just non-sensical and rather distracting from the story. I am not as familiar as I'd like to be with the inner-workings of Russian Government, so that was a bit hard to follow. There were some unneccesarily graphic scenes that I"m not sure had much to do with the story. Since this on... moree was the most interesting to me so far of my reads, I gave it an "I like it" instead of just an "It was ok."
review 2: I picked this book because I could not find any good books at the Chatham Library, and if I stayed any longer my mom would be worried. I picked this book largely due to the cool bear on the cover. About 5 pages in I was a bit confused with the setting, plot, and details. The setting was Russia in the future like 20 or so years, and the plot was about the life of an Oprichinik. I decided to stick with it because I ditched the last book I was reading. This book took me a while because of its pure abnormality. One school appropriate example is the use of a dog's head on the front of their Mercadovs,(I guess like a Russian Mercedes-Benz)and no it was not like the jaguar on top of the hood of a Jaguar it was an actually dog head. This book is vile to an abnormal point. Many books may curse, as does this one. However, this book is more like the life of a horny Viking, less pillaging more you know what. I guess it was meant to be dark, absurd humor, but it was too unnatural even for me. Please do not read this book. less

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