His ghastly mangling of almost every single Russian word and phrase, even place names, common first names, and the surnames of quite famous people like Bulgakov made it excruciating to listen to.
It is really incredibly stupid of Audible to not hire a narrator who has at least studied Russian, or at the very least someone who is willing to ask Russians how to pronounce Russian words and names, when the text bristles with thousands of Russian people and places and phrases. Narrator pronounced almost every Russian name and word wrong An excellent read that through the use of anecdotes and personal tales lets you glimpse into the world where corruption and abuse of power are and have been the norm for this country for nearly a century and now is a master of this form of social deception and manipulation that gives gain to the few to obliterate the many without any concern for morality or compassion, power for the sake of money in industrial quantities. If it sounds familiar it is because Trump is the retarded child of this new conflagration of megalomaniac rulers. !984 and Brave New world were a warning, that Russia has developed into a lesson in how to rule by schizophrenia and is now spreading to the rest of the world, the west thinks itself immune to corruption, but all are corruptible given the right amount of money and Russia is pumping money into the west to legitimise the illegitimate the cleptocracy, the criminal government that rules by fear, murder and chaos, where the ignorant and the malicious can create ever more absurd conspiracy theories or twisted tales that contravene all logic and are repeated or recreated by media and government to suit the political and military gains of a degenerate government. The aim, to own all forms of political discourse. Winner of the £10,000 Ondaatje Prize, described by judge Kate Adie as an ‘exuberant exposure’, with the ‘grotesque pursuit of money conveyed in glittering, trenchant prose’. It is home to a new form of authoritarianism, far subtler than 20th century strains, and which is rapidly expanding to challenge the global order.Īn extraordinary audiobook - one which is as powerful and entertaining as it is troubling - Nothing is True and Everything is Possible offers a wild ride into this political and ethical vacuum.
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, bohemian theatre directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators and oligarch revolutionaries.This is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, where life is seen as a whirling, glamorous masquerade where identities can be switched and all values are changeable.
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