Gorky Park

All nights should be so dark, all winters so warm, all headlights so dazzling.

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

November 19, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

My childhood library had a copy of this movie, and at the time, probably only had 50 videotapes in total, so I’ve seen the cover of this film hundreds of times. Every single time I laughed at the title. I still do. This is also not to be confused with The Russia House, with Sean Connery on the cover. This is a mystery set in Soviet Russia in the late 1970s, and like other good mystery novels, mostly tries to stay away from diving too […]

I remember the Russians

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith

August 16, 2020 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr12bingo Nostalgia This book, set in late the 1970s Soviet Union and published in 1981, marks the time of my teenaged years, a time when my personal interest in the Russians began to grow (leading to a long stint in graduate school and a PhD in Russian/Soviet history). Gorky Park was made into a movie (which I never saw) and Martin Cruz Smith went on to write a number of Arkady Renko detective/thriller novels. I think I might have read one of them (Red Square) […]

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All nights should be so dark, all winters so warm, all headlights so dazzling.

I remember the Russians

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