- Paperback: 192 pages
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1584200057
- ISBN-13: 978-1584200055
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.1 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,121,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On the cinema screen a scene at Kursk station in Moscow. Read the first page
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Good Book, Defective edition,
By Ian Elliott (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Strange Life of Ivan Osokin (Paperback)
This is a very interesting novel, but I gave it one star because I am rating the edition instead. Lindisfarne Books should be razed by fire and the editors suspended over a slow barbecue. They went to great lengths to provide the book with an arresting cover, interesting typeface for the chapter title, and lively (if uninformed) review notices on the back cover, but were so slipshod in their copy editing that they omitted words from the author's text in the first sentence of the first chapter! I kid you not, this book starts with a phrase, not a sentence! Fortunately it is about living your life over again, so the complete sentence reappears correctly on page 162 at the beginning of chapter 26. But such errors are unacceptable and unforgiveable in an editor, and can lead in time to a loss of the complete text itself, as any classical scholar can tell you, if you can find any these days. Don't buy this edition!
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Good Book, Defective edition,
By Ian Elliott - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Strange Life of Ivan Osokin (Paperback)
This is a very interesting novel, but I gave it one star because I am rating the edition instead. Lindisfarne Books should be razed by fire and the editors suspended over a slow barbecue. They went to great lengths to provide the book with an arresting cover, interesting typeface for the chapter title, and lively (if uninformed) review notices on the back cover, but were so slipshod in their copy editing that they omitted words from the author's text in the first sentence of the first chapter! I kid you not, this book starts with a phrase, not a sentence! Fortunately it is about living your life over again, so the complete sentence reappears correctly on page 162 at the beginning of chapter 26. But such errors are unacceptable and unforgiveable in an editor, and can lead in time to a loss of the complete text itself, as any classical scholar can tell you, if you can find any these days. Don't buy this edition!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great novel, unclear on whether this version is good,
By Blusuede - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Strange Life of Ivan Osokin (Paperback)
Cannot vouch for this particular version of the book, but get a good copy somewhere, as it is worth it. If you like Kundera, have a fondness for Nietzsche, enjoyed the Bill Murray movie "Groundhog's Day," or sit there mulling over the towering pronouncement from Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo," : 'You must change your life!' then this is the book for you. Even if none of the above apply to you, just take a chance on this slim novel. While I wouldn't recommend the entire mystical theosophist movement that propelled Ouspensky, this work will never quite leave you -- my criterion for a work of great art.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An Excellent Book,
By Alyssa - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Strange Life of Ivan Osokin (Paperback)
As soon as I read the first page of this book I loved it. I heard it's the book that the movie "Goundhog Day" was inspired by.
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