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Date Posted: 21:32:13 09/29/01 Sat
Author: reposted
Subject: Re: Best Book of 2001--The Bronze Horseman (nt)
In reply to: reposted 's message, "Best Book of 2001--The Bronze Horseman (nt)" on 21:30:16 09/29/01 Sat

I don't know what I was doing when this book came out, but I can't believe I missed this review. The only reason I read this book was because it kept being brought up on this board.

I finished reading it last night after reading it obsessively for a week. It was amazing--well-written, affectionate, and extremely emotionally affecting. I LOVED it. I'd give
it an A+, and right now I don't want to read anything else. I only want to read TBH over and over and over again. It makes everything else in my TBR pile look anemic and uninteresting. Both the hero and the heroine are going on my favorites list. I haven't been anywhere near this affected
by a book since I read the Doomsday Book by Connie Willis back in February. But even that one isn't quite up to the standard of TBH. I bawled my
head off at the end; it broke my heart. I can't wait for the sequel.

SPOILERS

I know that the second book is going to have to be different. I can feel a long separation coming up. I just don't foresee them getting back together soon. I can't see how Alexander could possibly leave before WWII is over, and that's 2 years in the future. And that's if he got away from the NKVD.

I was worried that Tania would turn to someone else to help her in the USA, esp. after all the references to Evgenii Onegin (the heroine of that is also Tatiana, considered to be the most sympathetic heroine in Russian literature). But then I remembered all the times that she said she didn't believe someone to be dead unless she saw the body. And I remembered how Babushka Maya waited all those years for her Fedor to come back after the Russo-Japanese war. She never remarried. Somehow I think it would be out of character for Tania to move on.

Also, interesting. Alexander's Russian name, Belov, would be White in English. As in knight on the white horse, the man in the white hat, the good guy.

I'm giving this book to my sister to read immediately so that I can talk more about it. I can't say how much it affected me.

Rachel Potter

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Re: Best Book of 2001--The Bronze Horseman (nt) -- reposted, 21:34:19 09/29/01 Sat