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PoindexterOglethorpe

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13. Just finished "A Gentleman in Moscow".
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 03:49 PM
Mar 2018

It's incredible. All along the way it was so good and so satisfying that I was afraid the ending might be a cheat. But it's not.

I think what I liked best is that it reads as if it were translated from the Russian. I mean that in a good way.

I have put his other book, Rules of Civility on hold. There are currently 11 other people ahead of me on the wait list, but the library has 5 copies. I think they recently purchased more because of a sudden demand for this one, no doubt from people like me who've read A Gentleman in Moscow.

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Just finished "A Gentleman in Moscow". PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2018 #13
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