Doctor Zhivago

• Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Signet Classics)
• War And Peace (Signet Classics)
• Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
• The Master and Margarita
• Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
• Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
• Catch-22
• Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (Oxford World's Classics)
• Family Happiness and Other Stories (Thrift Edition)

The fact that it is written by a poet can be seen with the beautiful poems and descriptions that leave one with a clear picture in their mind. Lara marries Pavel Antipov, Pasha, who goes to war. It rather unfinished with the character development with the reader hoping Zhivago had approached his life differently so that the book could really end as a love story. Incidentally, Lara and Zhivago meet while in serving at the military sites with the wounded.

If he really had that love for not only Tonia but Lara as well why did he approach the different situations in his life the way he did. The novel begins with Pasternak depriving the Zhivago family of their wealth and sets the reader up for the coming Revolution. Boris Pasternak included many minor characters within his book, ones that seem almost insignificant to the actual plot and make the reader question their presence. This was one of the reasons you want to keep turning the pages to find out what happens to Zhivago, what he will do and how he will do it. Because of the little development and poor prose it is hard to become truly attached to any of the characters. Yuri who grows up in Moscow, with the Gromeko family, later marries their child Tonia.

After the war, Zhivago and his family move to the country side near the city of Yuriatin. The hardships and crimes of the Russian Revolution, and the Civil War leave are distressing and moving. However, the underlying theme next to the love are the individuals responses to the circumstances that are beyond the familiar experiences. The poet/physician Doctor Zhivago, Yuri Andreievich, is the main character who the reader follows before and through the Revolution up to the end of the book.

One day as he is returning back to Tonia, supposedly with the intentions of never seeing Lara again, he is kidnapped by the Partisans who keep him as their doctor during the Civil War. Many question the greatness of the love Zhivago really deemed to have had. These are some of the events that occur during the course of the book, ones that are memorable but also ones that are hard to understand and get into.

The story continues as Zhivago, who is evidently madly in love with Lara meets with her in Yuriatin and they begin their affair. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a classic, perhaps its being so broken apart and with so many different details, situations and characters makes it relatable to life. The reader also learns of Tonia, Lara and some other friends during the first chapters as Pasternak shows the different worlds they come from, explaining the different classes and hardships associated with them.

That's not to say that the ending of the book does not bring some disappointment to the reader. Although Boris Pasternak used some philosophy that was a bit convoluted the book was fairly easy to understand. The story of Doctor Zhivago to some is an unforgettable love story while to others the account of the consequences of the revolution with its crimes, starvation, epidemics and war.

I've never been to Russia, but poet Boris Pasternak made me feel as if I could see with my very own eyes the long beautiful snow covered hills of the country side and the beauty of Moscow before and still during the hardships of the Russian Revolution. He also has a tendency to include overly descriptive details at times.

It's historically important, but not an enjoyable read. Like others have said, this book does a great job at depicting what Russia was like during the revolution. Otherwise, the story is really hard to get into.

I understood that sometimes people are swept into and out of the place they want to be - and why they stay where things are bad and leave where things are good. Maybe it's that I can't escape my first impression. Yes, I did. Sometimes life just gets away from you. And no, I didn't.

Zhivago was in high school. Zhivago felt a bit as if Pasternak let the narrative get away from him. Pasternak's novel ten years later. That said, the things that drove my dislike of Dr. After all, he's the one with a Nobel Prize.

While I actually liked the novel this time, I feel as if I should have liked Dr. Unresolved plot lines rarely bother me but, when combined with extensive background on what ending up being minor characters, Dr. Zhivago the first time were still still there. After rereading and enjoying a few other high school assignments, I came across Dr. Zhivago more than I did. I better understood the way that life can pull a person in strange directions and drop them into unexpected and unwanted situations. I don't know if the problem with character names springs from the fact that, being Russian names, they are unfamiliar to my mind or if Pasternak simply failed to rein in his cast of thousands. I certainly had a far greater appreciation for Pasternak's obviously loving descriptions of his homeland.

I found that this time around I had something more of a connection with the characters. At 15, the book was a chore. Zhivago on my bookshelf and wondered if I would find more appreciation for Mr. Maybe that was the point. Who am I to criticize. Impenetrable and numerous Russian names (often for the same character) and endless description of the Russian landscape left me exhausted and unimpressed. My first reading of Dr. The sprawling story and unending task of keeping all the characters straight were still a detraction.