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Anyone else secretly adore Arkady Renko?

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dlowan
 
Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 07:49 am
I am reading the latest..."Stalin's Ghost".


Am I alone in loving this series?
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LionTamerX
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 08:24 am
Please tell more.

Have you read any Shteyngart ?
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sozobe
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 08:25 am
Nevah hoid of him.

But if you're interested, I'm interested, so I'll lurk.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 10:54 am
Haven't read about Renko in a long time, but I used to be quite the fan.
Will put the new book on my list - thanks, Dlowan.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 03:28 pm
sozobe wrote:
Nevah hoid of him.

But if you're interested, I'm interested, so I'll lurk.


He's the character, not the author....

The author is Martin Cruz Smith.


You may recall Gorky Park?


The ones about Renko are kinda thrillers, or detective fiction, I guess......but set in Russia...and I just adore them.

They are fascinating in terms of reflecting how Russia has changed, but I just love the tone.




ossobuco wrote:
Haven't read about Renko in a long time, but I used to be quite the fan.
Will put the new book on my list - thanks, Dlowan.




There may be a few you have missed, Osso.


There's big gaps between them...but he's regualr, in a very spaced out way.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 03:33 pm
LionTamerX wrote:
Please tell more.

Have you read any Shteyngart ?


Who dat?
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 04:06 pm
I see the last book I read featuring Renko was Polar Star, circa 1990.
I liked the Gorky Park movie too, with William Hurt as Renko (if I remember correctly.)
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msolga
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 04:33 pm
Just visiting this thread to enlighten myself on who this Arkady Renko fellow actually is, Deb.
Now I know.
My guess was that he was some sort of obscure spiritual/philosophical writer.
(Stop your laughing now!)
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dlowan
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 04:37 pm
msolga wrote:
Just visiting this thread to enlighten myself on who this Arkady Renko fellow actually is, Deb.
Now I know.
My guess was that he was some sort of obscure spiritual/philosophical writer.
(Stop your laughing now!)



Lol!!!!


He's a fairly philosophical, very ironic, character, though.



Osso...there's three, Ithink, between Polar Star and Stalin's Ghost.
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Tai Chi
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 04:55 pm
Haven't read anything since Gorky Park but I keep hearing good things about this latest so it seems I have some catching up to do.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 04:59 pm
OK, OK, I'm off to Amazon or Powells.

I've got to read something else, I've got to read something else, I've got to read something else...
(I'm on p. 1004 of the 1479 page A Suitable Boy, and about to personally kill Mrs. Rupa Mehra.)
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LionTamerX
 
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Reply Wed 11 Jul, 2007 08:54 am
dlowan wrote:
LionTamerX wrote:
Please tell more.

Have you read any Shteyngart ?


Who dat?


He's a newish Russian-American author. Not in the same genre as your boy there, but funny as hell. Here's his wiki bio.
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Wed 11 Jul, 2007 09:01 am
I have read Gorky Park, Polar Star, and Red Square. I still think Gorky Park is the best. I had heard that Martin Cruz Smith was unhappy with the movie version of Gorky Park. However, the novel was very complex -- the movie could only present a "Reader's Digest condensed" version.
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