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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles in my new favorite piece of historical literature and my new favorite book. Despite taking place primarily in the Metropol hotel in Moscow, Towles wrote a book with amazing characters, carefully written historical details, and a writing style that will sing to your soul.
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Where should I begin? How does one go about reviewing a book that so perfectly touched their soul? A Gentleman in Moscow told a story that exceeded any expectations I had using words and prose that cradled my love for the English language. If I had to quickly summarized how I feel about this masterpiece of a novel, I would say one does not read this book, but rather they experience it. It is a book that contains characters who glow beyond the words on the page, scenes and places that form like memories, and a story that kept my interest despite my doubts that it could.
Here is my A Gentleman in Moscow book review.
Written by Amor Towles, the A Gentleman in Moscow release date was September 6, 2016. It is a historical fiction that takes place in Moscow, of course, during the Stalin era. The main character Count Alexander Rostov is placed on lifelong house arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal because of a revolutionary poem he wrote during his college years. Instead of receiving the death sentence, he is forced to live within the walls of the Metropol hotel in Moscow. At one point the count describes this punishment as worse than being exiled because after being exiled a person can start a new life and forget the old. The punishment Count Rostov receives is worse, as he describes, because he is imprisoned in his home, causing him to long to explore the city. His life in the hotel leads to the life of another being put in his hands. As described on the back cover, “he must draw on all of his ingenuity to protect the future she deserves.”
I first heard of this book a couple years ago, and since then I have been eagerly waiting until it was next in line on my TBR list. Historical fiction books have been my favorite genre for a while, especially because I have not read one that I did not enjoy. I1 was excited to read A Gentleman in Moscow up until I started reading it. After the first chapter or two, I began to worry that I would waste my time reading about a man in Moscow meander around a hotel for 462 pages. This fear that my time was being waster caused me to carefully hunt for any evidence that the story might pick up. Yes, I was enjoying the poetic descriptions and picture perfect details, but I wanted to make sure it was worth reading. A lot of reviews said it was boring, and while I am careful to believe any review (because reviews are opinions, and opinions vary, especially on books), I started to agree with those reviews without finishing the first part of the book.
I took a spontaneous break from reading Towles’s masterpiece to read Dune by Frank Herbert in preparation for the movie. After I finished that book, I returned to A Gentleman in Moscow, feeling it was only right I give it more of a chance to make an impression. It’s was like building a relationship with someone that is widely known and widely discussed. I had to push past the negative things I heard and my preexisting reservations before I made a judgement on whether or not it was a relationship worth pursuing.
After reading on, I got further acquainted with the style. Just like with a relationship, it is best to see the good aspects in a novel instead of expecting your own aspects. As I read on, I became more invested in my relationship with this book. Soon, I found myself attached to the book. This attachment caused me to purchase the eBook so I could read it in more places and more often. I will come back to the topic of this novel being “slow” later....read the rest on my blog.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles in my new favorite piece of historical literature and my new favorite book. Despite taking place primarily in the Metropol hotel in Moscow, Towles wrote a book with amazing characters, carefully written historical details, and a writing style that will sing to your soul.
Buy my book The Cards That Are Dealt here: amazon.com/Cards-That-Are-Dealt/dp/1737742802/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+cards+that+are+dealt&qid=1636794578&sr=8-1
Read the written version here: nozithus.com/blog/a-gentleman-in-moscow-book-review-my-new-favorite-historical-literature-novel-11-2021
Website: nozithus.com
TikTok: tiktok.com/@nozithus_books?lang=en
Instagram: instagram.com/nozithus
Patreon: patreon.com/nozithus
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Join my email list: nozithus.com/newsletter
The Nozithus Story Podcast:
open.spotify.com/show/2geRKpGZEk42wUyGMiNrve?si=eHqkDF6CRMayrP0yl4_qHA
Also available on YouTube here: youtube.com/channel/UCzGYywFvlC5ksR7qnPPOrbw
Gaming Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCBy12BHedOjmD5WfBGr14Vg
Buy A Gentleman in Moscow my Amor Towels here: barnesandnoble.com/w/a-gentleman-in-moscow-amor-towles/1123499449
Where should I begin? How does one go about reviewing a book that so perfectly touched their soul? A Gentleman in Moscow told a story that exceeded any expectations I had using words and prose that cradled my love for the English language. If I had to quickly summarized how I feel about this masterpiece of a novel, I would say one does not read this book, but rather they experience it. It is a book that contains characters who glow beyond the words on the page, scenes and places that form like memories, and a story that kept my interest despite my doubts that it could.
Here is my A Gentleman in Moscow book review.
Written by Amor Towles, the A Gentleman in Moscow release date was September 6, 2016. It is a historical fiction that takes place in Moscow, of course, during the Stalin era. The main character Count Alexander Rostov is placed on lifelong house arrest by a Bolshevik tribunal because of a revolutionary poem he wrote during his college years. Instead of receiving the death sentence, he is forced to live within the walls of the Metropol hotel in Moscow. At one point the count describes this punishment as worse than being exiled because after being exiled a person can start a new life and forget the old. The punishment Count Rostov receives is worse, as he describes, because he is imprisoned in his home, causing him to long to explore the city. His life in the hotel leads to the life of another being put in his hands. As described on the back cover, “he must draw on all of his ingenuity to protect the future she deserves.”
I first heard of this book a couple years ago, and since then I have been eagerly waiting until it was next in line on my TBR list. Historical fiction books have been my favorite genre for a while, especially because I have not read one that I did not enjoy. I1 was excited to read A Gentleman in Moscow up until I started reading it. After the first chapter or two, I began to worry that I would waste my time reading about a man in Moscow meander around a hotel for 462 pages. This fear that my time was being waster caused me to carefully hunt for any evidence that the story might pick up. Yes, I was enjoying the poetic descriptions and picture perfect details, but I wanted to make sure it was worth reading. A lot of reviews said it was boring, and while I am careful to believe any review (because reviews are opinions, and opinions vary, especially on books), I started to agree with those reviews without finishing the first part of the book.
I took a spontaneous break from reading Towles’s masterpiece to read Dune by Frank Herbert in preparation for the movie. After I finished that book, I returned to A Gentleman in Moscow, feeling it was only right I give it more of a chance to make an impression. It’s was like building a relationship with someone that is widely known and widely discussed. I had to push past the negative things I heard and my preexisting reservations before I made a judgement on whether or not it was a relationship worth pursuing.
After reading on, I got further acquainted with the style. Just like with a relationship, it is best to see the good aspects in a novel instead of expecting your own aspects. As I read on, I became more invested in my relationship with this book. Soon, I found myself attached to the book. This attachment caused me to purchase the eBook so I could read it in more places and more often. I will come back to the topic of this novel being “slow” later....read the rest on my blog.
