Loved every page.

I highly recommend it. During the Russian Bolshevik revolution, Count Alexander Rostov avoids the fate which most of his relatives meet, assassination or death in a labor camp, because in his youth he wrote a poem beloved by the Bolshevik peasantry. Instead he is held in house arrest in a historic hotel in Red Square. The author is able to make even the long dull days and decades of incarceration seem real and filled with life. The many and varied guests of the hotel become his family and the finely crafted details in the first half of the book lead up to an exciting turn of events for the finale. Even though, as a member of the working class, I would fit more in with the Bolsheviks, I really loved Count Rostov's aristocratic, suave character. And Rostov's character changes from indifference of the privileged class to the ethic of a man who loves his work. I have listened to this book twice on Audible and will listen to it again I am sure. - Amor Towles is a master storyteller, maybe up there with Tolstoy.

We shall see how long that takes.

Our Book Club read it last year...everyone loved it!

good book!

only I've had to freeze the hold because I currently have 14 books checked out, one waiting to be picked up, and 21 books (including Gentleman) on hold.

I thought it was great. Still not wanting it to end, so I'm reading it slowly.

Absolutely incredible. I got worried along the way that maybe the ending wouldn't be good, or would be a cheat. But it's not. It also felt as if it were translated from the Russian, and I liked that.

I have his first book Rules of Civility on hold.