Status Updates From Doktor Schiwago

The movie was so much better. I loved the idea of the story and the swept away love story, but the writing was just meh at best to me. It was chaotic to follow and skipped time periods without any warning. The author also assumes the reader knows Russian history. I had to do a Russian history overview before reading the book because otherwise I would not have understood much of what was actually happening

"Take Blok’s ‘We, the children of Russia’s terrible years,’ and you’ll see the difference in epochs. When Blok said that, it was to be understood in a metaphorical sense. The children were not children, but the intelligentsia, and the terrors were not terrible, but providential, apocalyptic. But now all that was metaphorical has become literal, and the children are children, and the terrors are terrifying."

"Farewell, my great and dear one, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to throw myself into your cold waves."