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chalicotherex's review
5.0
Eddie-baby is a bookish adolescent on the path to becoming a punk, in spite of warnings from just about all of the adults in his life. The really crazy thing about this book is that it's just not the Soviet Union you've come to expect. There's a staggering difference between the Soviet police state we've long pictured in the West and the Trashes (Kharkov youth slang for militia) that Eddy and his gang live in defiance of.
I've known a bit about Limonov for years now - I've been a fan of the eXile for a long time, and that's how I found out about him - but this is the first of his books that I've read. I definitely should have read this sooner, and won't hesitate to read more. I think I let the charges of fascism bother me, plus his columns in the eXile were terrible (he refused to let anyone edit his poor english, which I mistakenly thought would be the case with his books) so I yawned or rolled my eyes whenever I read Mark Ames or John Dolan praise him. What a fool I'd been!
At any rate, Dolan writes a much better review here.
I've known a bit about Limonov for years now - I've been a fan of the eXile for a long time, and that's how I found out about him - but this is the first of his books that I've read. I definitely should have read this sooner, and won't hesitate to read more. I think I let the charges of fascism bother me, plus his columns in the eXile were terrible (he refused to let anyone edit his poor english, which I mistakenly thought would be the case with his books) so I yawned or rolled my eyes whenever I read Mark Ames or John Dolan praise him. What a fool I'd been!
At any rate, Dolan writes a much better review here.
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