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I really enjoyed this somewhat laconic and dryly funny travel memoir about Frazier's several trips to Siberia. His adventures were fun to follow- real seat of the pants traveling, in a part of the world still resembling wilderness. I love his crankypants honesty and self-deprecating humor, and all t...
I was a huge fan of his articles about Russia in the New Yorker, so I was excited to read this. I was expecting it to be a collection of essays. It wasn't! I think I might have liked it more if it had been. The New Yorker pieces were really just excerpts, more than essays, and the book adds a lot of...
I did not see much sun during the past few weeks.I've been in Siberia.I've been reading Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier. I discovered there is more to Siberia than the terrible cold and the terrible prisons:1. It can be quite warm and horribly mosquito-ey in August.2. People throw trash everywhere...
Started it -- had to return it. Somewhat interesting. . .
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