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Review: Doctor Zhivago

User Review  - Nina - Goodreads

This is a classic example of "I don't know what I expected but it wasn't this." The only thing I knew about this novel beforehand was that it was about the forbidden love between Dr Zhivago and Lara ... Read full review

Review: Doctor Zhivago

User Review  - Sean Mcmahon - Goodreads

I was passed the book by my girl, this does not automatically mean that I will dislike a book but I'm cluching at straws as to explain why it left little or no impression. We were travelling the world ... Read full review

Review: Doctor Zhivago

User Review  - Alex - Goodreads

"The calamity of mediocre taste is worse than the calamity of tastelessness." (p. 568) I don't think I can really judge this book properly: it's a big, slow, quiet book, and I wasn't in the right ... Read full review

Review: Dr. Zhivago

User Review  - Dianna - Goodreads

I have a younger sister who was named after the most fascinating character from this book, which has only added to the special place I hold in my heart for the story. With lovers thrown together and ... Read full review

Review: Doctor Zhivago

User Review  - Ariel Burbaickij - Goodreads

Despite a huge hype and spin -- book is not even close to being that great and in my opinion clearly falls behind Soviet Russian civil war epics of Sholochov, Alexei Tolstoi and Bulgakov Read full review

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User Review  - Tuong Van - Goodreads

Bleak story Read full review

Review: Doctor Zhivago

User Review  - Viktoriaf - Goodreads

Read Dr. Zhivago and think about your inner rebel. At a certain point in the book Zhivago says there is no era where old generation and new generation would have the same views. Zhivago is a victim of ... Read full review

Review: Doctor Zhivago

User Review  - Kevin - Goodreads

Okay, so I am not going to lie, this book is very complicated and definitely not suitable for anyone who isn't familiar with Russian Literature and the theory that may accompany the craft. Pasternak ... Read full review

Review: Doctor Zhivago

User Review  - Christina - Goodreads

I can't bring myself to read anymore of this book. I hate not finishing a book once I've started, even if I do think its rubbish, but I am about halfway through and it is just too much like hard work ... Read full review

Review: Doctor Zhivago

User Review  - Elena Holmgren - Goodreads

A celebration of poiesis as a path to wisdom that takes one to a primal place, the kind of inner place that is in danger of being paved over by modernity in general and by the grand efforts at ... Read full review

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