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Ice Trilogy (2006)

by Vladimir Sorokin(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1590173864 (ISBN13: 9781590173862)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

NYRB Classics

review 1: I wanted to love this book with every page I read. I thought this was a great idea for a novel spanning events from the early 20th century to the recent times touching on events across the the East and West with the focus on the sect of the Brothers and Sisters of the Light. The translation/language of the novel was dull and repetitive throughout the novel. There was so much time spent on finding individuals for the sect. All in all an average book, keep expectations low.
review 2: This is an astonishing book, It's not at all what you expect: infuriatingly prolix, grotesquely over-written as only a Russian novel can be. And yet the writing is beautiful and the plot is a tour-de-force leading you into new dimensions without ever letting you know where you a... morere going, right to the climax which is as unexpected as it is startling. You have to sit for a few minutes and let your mind stumble back to reality. Along the way you see the 20th Century from an entirely new perspective. It can make you angry and indignant with the protagonists, who are just as sublime and bestial as zealots always are. Along the way you are never certain whether you want them to succeed or fail, and that alone keeps drawing you foreward. It's not a complex story, You are given the broad outlines right from the start (or somewhere in the last third of the first book). Even so, the author keeps finding new ways to baffle and intrigue, up to the very last page. less

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