Book Review: Gentleman in Moscow by, Amor Towles
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- In today's video I'll be reviewing A Gentleman in Moscow by, Amor Towles.
A Gentleman in Moscow Written Review:
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One of my favorite Historic fiction of all time.
I adore the count. I love how he doesn't allow himself to change in the wrong ways. Change, yes, but not what is important, not on ways that make him ornery or cynical. His openness & gentleness toward humankind in spite of his marginalization was so refreshing and lovely!
Agreed! The Count is a great character!
I read this last November and it became one of my favourite books of all time. So glad you loved it too. Found families, beautiful friendships and gorgeous cultural references are my cat nip. I didn't expect to find it so wholesome and moving
Yes to that being cat nip! hahaha It was all excellently done!
@@alanaestelle2076 have you read Still Life by Sarah Winman? Very similar vibes and themes
It is so nice to have someone talk gently and intelligently and also thank goodness you don't speak as fast as the speed of light.
Thank you so much!! I actually tend to speak very fast, so in these videos I really try to make an effort to slow my speaking pace!
And here I am, the most emotional reader I know.😂 This book had me tearing up several times, and I legit WEPT from joy at the end. I love the way it looked at history and tradition and how much those things inform who we are, and thusly hold so much weight and importance. It’s so much about human strength and human ingenuity and human interaction. I’ve only read it once, but every single scene and quote you reference, I remembered. That’s highly unusual for me on a first reading. This book is special in a way that not many modern books are. It deserves to be a classic.
The end is perfection! Towles nailed everything with this book. You may be on to something - I won't be surprised if this is considered a modern classic in the future.
I have not read it yet. But now I want to. Thanks for the great review.
I hope you get to read it soon! And it has so many references to other works of literature and pieces of music. And thank you!
I loved this review. The quotes are amazing. Healthy male relationships…yes! I have not read this or anything by Amor Towles. I need to change that!
Thank you! Yes, so many good quotes in this book! I hope you get to read Towles soon!
Wow...possible top 3. I still want to read his books in pub order. Next year. 🙌
It's so good! I'm going back be reading his first novel next year!
Such an amazing review! I’m very intrigued with how you annotate ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you! I hope to do a video on how I annotate one day!
@@alanaestelle2076 Thank you 🙏🏾 Looking forward to seeing it!
I love this book too, it's so funny and poignant. Amor Towles is a decent writer! I read the Lincoln Highway which I didn't enjoy as much but it was still an engaging read and hey there are some significant bromances in there too. I would read whatever he writes in future.
This book is quite funny! Same - he's an auto-buy author for now.
This book is already high on my priority list to read, but you've made me want to pick it up immediately, especially after you described it as "wholesome." I loveee a wholesome read. Great review, as always!
Yay! I hope you get to read it soon and love it! And thank you!
Yet another great review 👏
Honestly, this book completely surprised me. I expected to find it okay, but as you say the writing is beautiful and the story is wholesome without being cheesy. It’s such an easy recommendation to friends!
Thanks Ben!
Yes, it would have been a easy for this to get cheesy on the hands of another writer. Towles is just unnatural in the best way 😂
I adore your review, what a wonderful way to discuss this gorgeous, tender, joy-filled book! Rules of Civility is also terrific.
Thank you! And yes - this is such a heartfelt book! Glad to know you also liked Rules of Civility. I look forward to reading it!
It appears the author must have read some Epictetus and the Stoics! I have often wondered about this book and now i definitely will pick it up!
Towels uses a lot of literary references, so I wouldn't be surprised. And there are also a lot of famous pieces of music mentioned. I think you'll really enjoy this one!
I have been curious about this book since I first learned about it from Olive at A Book Olive. Rea life has imploded of late, but I hope to get to reading it later this year.
I hope you get to read it soon! It’s such a gentle book ❤️
I love this book! Easily among my favorite I've read in the past few years, and I agree this is one you could recommend to just about anyone. So glad you enjoyed it. I read The Lincoln Highway earlier this year, and although it didn't reach the level of Gentleman in Moscow for me, I still really appreciated it. Haven't read Rules of Civility yet.
It really is a stellar book! I'll be reading Rules of Civility next year and then Lincoln Highway sometime after - watched your review on that one but I'll need to go back to if after I've read it haha.
If you really love depressing books 📚 as you mentioned in this review, I definitely recommend Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. 🙃
I’ve considered it 🤣
@@alanaestelle2076 David Foster Wallace was an absolute genius! I had never up to this point encountered a mind quite like his. He changed the modern literature world for me. He wasn't the only one, but he packed one of the most powerful, poetic, elegant punches.. 💔 And if we celebrate writers of American literature I just have to say that William Faulkner has made sweet sweet literary love to my brain. Rough too. Hair pulling and everything. He's on the level of Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, Dickens, Kafka. ❤
Yes, totally agree that people on opposite riverbanks likely have more in common than they do with inland neighbors, regardless of to whom they pay taxes. Similarly with readers who also like War and Peace or Madame Bovary, like I do. However, the unrestricted free flow in thoughts and ideas remains impractical. In fact, at times it's even difficult to talk to people living abroad, though tbh there are more people speaking English than there ever were!
Social media helps a lot as well with connecting to those abroad as well. I talk to my British friends all the time haha