From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser

[rich]

the movie version of Hard to be a God is worth seeing, too

I tried reading Petersburg in translation but I wasn't captured by it. it
may be an old Penguin Classic. felt same way about Berlin Alexanderplatz

rich

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:46 PM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Strugatsky Brothers hell yeah! Last year I raced through Hard to be a God
> in the grip of a flu fever and it was one of the better reading experiences
> of the year.
>
> > > Andrei Bely's "Petersburg" is a masterpiece (Nabokov agrees).
> > >
> > > Am 12.12.2019 um 16:51 schrieb Laura Kelber:
> > > > I agree with all of this, Rich. There are minefields of gratuitous
> > > violence
> > > > and cruelty (it sells!) and dreary political rectitude (the critics
> > > behoove
> > > > themselves to praise it) that scare me away from a lot of current
> > > > literature.
> > > --
> >
>