Way to go Andie, you knocked my socks off with your message (my dogs helped in the process).
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > --- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Radzinsky is a kook. Awful - it is not
> scholarship
>
> Agreed, utter crap, not worth reading, except for
> his
> access to sources that others don't have and which
> can't be checked or trusted.
> >
> > I just bought Zinoviev's Russkaya Tragediya, which
> > looks great -- although his politics are wacky, he
> > really is a brilliant novelist. Katastroika was
> > hilarious ("Long Live Feudalism, Glorious Future
> of
> > All Mankind!"), and Yawning Heights, which I
> haven't
> > read, is supposedly first-rate.
> >
>
> Also The Radiant Future, very funny. That was when
> he
> was an anti-Communist dissident. I met him in those
> days and we butted heads -- I was redder in them
> days,
> defending Gorby. Now Z is a neo-Communist
> reactionary,
> having realized too late what was lost. He wouldn't
> like Gorby any better now, but today because MG was
> the traitor who destroyed the USSR, etc. Only I am
> sure he'd put it in a funbnier way.
>
> Z is also an absolutely first rate technical
> logician,
> with real contributions in multi-valued logics
> (where
> sentences can be other than just true or false).
> Wonder whether that helps his work as a novelist.
>
> jks
>
>
>
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