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Gorky Park, the movie.  Never saw it.  I should put it on my Netflix list.  But I want to read it first.  I've just become addicted to the Arkady Renko detective stories...  In fact, just last night I was reading one, and ... listening to ... Kind of Blue.  

Gorky Park, the park.  My first night in Moscow, there were fireworks being shot off from Gorky Park, which I was living directly across from.  Very cool.  By day, however, I was pretty unimpressed.  I guess it has all of these connotations for westerners...  and it's just a park, you know, and at that time was rather dilapidated as well...

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:41:07 PM EST
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I've just become addicted to the Arkady Renko detective stories...

another big fan. Gorky park is definitely the best so far, but "Wolves Eat Dogs" will haunt you in a way like no other book. It imprints you, the mark may never leave.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:50:54 PM EST
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The thing is I just finished the last one, Stalin's Ghost, and I love that -because of my freakish obsession with Russian politics- I know what all of the allusions are to.  Also the descriptions of Moscow make me homesick ...

Can't wait to read them all!

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:57:37 PM EST
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Ok, I'm taking home Gorky Park tonight.  I'm going to read the rest of them in proper order.

Uhm, this is not terribly related, but Ekho Moskvy plays some great jazz at this hour...  

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 06:22:07 PM EST
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Parks in cities. Very important. Helsinki is rather blessed in that regard.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 03:51:54 PM EST
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From memory - well the ones I have read - were Renko in Gorky Park, Polar Star, Red Square and the current gem, Wolves Eat Dogs.

Are there others?

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by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Thu Nov 29th, 2007 at 08:54:08 PM EST
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