I’ve started reading Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith.
I’ve adored the film in the 80s, and I also have it on DVD. Usually books are always much better than the films based on them, because in those films they often cut down the plot, minimize or maximize relevance of some stories or characters, some characters are totally removed, and in some very negative cases new characters are invented and the plot happens to be totally changed.
In late times (even not recent ones) I’ve been reading a lot of books by Kaminsky from Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov’s series, thus I’m familiar with the atmosphere of Russia before the fall of Berlin’s wall, with KGB, dissidents, snow, dusk, etc. and it slightly reliefs my old communist soul that continues to look at some of those things with a sort of regard, even if I recognize mistakes and aberrations.
We’ll see what will be my impressions at the end of the book…
