
Doctor Zhivago
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John Lee
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is a new translation of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.
Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago’s love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times.
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A Satisfying Performance
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John Lee makes this come alive, a classic
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Well, it’s all there
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Would you consider the audio edition of Doctor Zhivago to be better than the print version?
It was outstanding!What did you like best about this story?
I was warned that it would be difficult to follow the characters, but it was not difficult at all.What about John Lee’s performance did you like?
Everything!If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
the story of life.WoW!
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The Lara character is shown for maybe half of the book, not all the way through as I had somehow expected. She is a woman who brings a tumultuous train of story elements along with her, and Zhivago is drawn to her as though by a law of nature. And in the end, he finds that he has to separate from her by an equally strict set of rules, even though they both love one another deeply. The sections where they are together are not sexy as much as they depict their bond as one with a certain rightness, even if illicit, dangerous, and ultimately doomed. After they are apart, it is as though Zhivago knows already that they will never meet again in life, so he cannot even strive to bring about a reunion. He's a different person, with a damaged circulatory system in the same way his emotional center itself is damaged. In the epilogue we see how life continues without him, during another war which is only lightly alluded to.
The audio narration was good, not too flashy or overusing different voices for all of the characters, only a slight indication of gender or social class, and in one class a comical foreign accent. He lets the horrific scenes and the rapturous lyric scenes speak for themselves.
This prize-winning work receives a good treatment
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Great narrator, long book
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Epic
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Not My Cup Of Tea
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Incredible!
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Excellent Translation and Narration
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