Kireth
I should have listened to my friends and read this sooner!
An instant modern classic. One of the most heartwarming and eloquently written books I’ve read yet. We are in the Metropol Hotel with Count Alexander Rostov for the majority of the book’s proceedings, yet through those swinging doors walk in comrades, enemies old and familiar and friends and family of all kinds. The way certain characters and moments are given life by their descriptions makes this plainly one of the most pleasurable reads I’ve had recently. I appreciate how Towles weaves in significant European and especially Russian cultural moments from the 1920s through to 60s. The writing is especially unflinching in the face of some of the socialist country’s darkest moments, yet the writing embraces sorrow and the seasons of life without delving into a depressive read. Life really is captured in this hotel and gentleman’s life, in all its shades from greed to loss and joy. This will stay with me for a while.
I should have listened to my friends and read this sooner!
An instant modern classic. One of the most heartwarming and eloquently written books I’ve read yet. We are in the Metropol Hotel with Count Alexander Rostov for the majority of the book’s proceedings, yet through those swinging doors walk in comrades, enemies old and familiar and friends and family of all kinds. The way certain characters and moments are given life by their descriptions makes this plainly one of the most pleasurable reads I’ve had recently. I appreciate how Towles weaves in significant European and especially Russian cultural moments from the 1920s through to 60s. The writing is especially unflinching in the face of some of the socialist country’s darkest moments, yet the writing embraces sorrow and the seasons of life without delving into a depressive read. Life really is captured in this hotel and gentleman’s life, in all its shades from greed to loss and joy. This will stay with me for a while.