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White Russian (missing book)
by Tom Bradby | Literature & Fiction
Registered by Zmrzlina of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA on Friday, March 21, 2003
Average 6 star rating by BookCrossing Members 

status (set by Zmrzlina): travelling


3 journalers for this copy...

Journal Entry 1 by Zmrzlina from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA on Friday, March 21, 2003

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Advance reader copy. 

Journal Entry 2 by Zmrzlina from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA on Monday, March 31, 2003

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I've decided to do a book circle with this before reading it myself.

This is the list for the Book Circle.

Herrundmeyer in Germany.
AwesomeAud in Canada.
txcajun in the USA.
LaRue in USA.
JDT in USA.

Then back to me :-) 

Journal Entry 3 by wingHerrundmeyerwing from Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Monday, May 12, 2003

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Got this in the mail today. Thanks for setting up this bookring! TBR.

I couldn't quite let this ring pass me. After watching The Big Lebowski for the first time, White Russian is one of the favourite drinks among my friends. 

Journal Entry 4 by wingHerrundmeyerwing from Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Thursday, May 15, 2003

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I've read about a third of the book, and first I'd like to apologise for the state it is in already - me being its first reader! I accidentally spilt some water on the table and didn't realise that the book soaked up some of it till later. I dried the book, but now the pages are a bit wavy at the bottom and I had to repair the cover sheet, too.

As regards the story:
It's 1917, Tsarist Russia during the First World War. The chief investigator of the Petrograd police has to deal with a brutal killer, with a slow bureaucratic system, with the omnipresent Okhrana Secret Police force, with revolutionaries and with the conservative aristocratics - and yet the story is getting on slowly, too slowly actually. The "rich atmosphere" that is praised on the back cover does not grip me (or rather, I don't find a "rich atmosphere"...).

Anyway, I'll get back once I'm through and will then send the book on to Canada.  

Journal Entry 5 by wingHerrundmeyerwing from Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Saturday, May 17, 2003

7 out of 10

Well, the book gets better after about the middle, but nonetheless is not very convincing to me. An unexpected twist occurs in the last few chapters, and the story gets more or less fast-paced towards the end, which would make it a good TV film, but that's about it. The first half is rather boring, and so my rating cannot exceed 7/10. 

Journal Entry 6 by wingHerrundmeyerwing at mailed to a fellow bookcrosser in Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Saturday, May 17, 2003

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Released on Saturday, May 17, 2003 at mailed to a fellow bookcrosser in Gelsenkirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany.

Mailed to Canada to AwesomeAud. 

Journal Entry 7 by AwesomeAud from New Dundee, Ontario Canada on Wednesday, May 28, 2003

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This came in the mail today. Thank you Zmrzlina and Herrundmeyer! 

Journal Entry 8 by AwesomeAud from New Dundee, Ontario Canada on Wednesday, September 10, 2003

5 out of 10

Sorry it took so long to read and journal this book ... there's really no excuse :(

I can't say I really enjoyed this book. I loved the main character, his tenacity, and his love for his son, but I really couldn't see what he found so attractive about this ballerina. I found that the plotting in this book was uneven. The plot changed drastically about 3/4 of the way thru, and the pace increased from turtle slow to breakneck speed, and I felt it lost a great deal of credibility (believability?) at that point. And the ending just left me more confused than ever.

Also, I found the names and titles/jobs of the characters rather confusing, so I made up a character list. I'll keep it with the book. Hopefully, it will be of use to the next reader.

I'll email the next person on the bookring list, and get her address to send it on. 

Journal Entry 9 by Zmrzlina from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA on Saturday, December 06, 2003

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I guess this is another of my rings to get lost in the mail. I am up to about 10 of them now :-( 



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