Review: You'll love it or hate it. Loved it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2013
This is definitely a book you will love or hate, and I loved it, but I love things that are a little different. The lead character, Archie Fox, is badly behaved and has a terrible attitude toward women, work, foreigners and personal responsibility. He has heard of morals, and he finds them funny.  The trouble is Fox is such good company and so full of insight that he gets you onside and makes you laugh and smile.In fact Fox is a testament to the quality of the writing; conversational, breezy, witty and so well done that you forget you are in the company of the last man on Earth you would want your daughter to meet. The book works magnificently on this humorous level but only if you ‘get it’. You need to have the right sense of humour, meaning, I think you might enjoy being outraged and appreciate that humans can be deeply dishonest and completely stupid. Yet it is an uplifting book – life is one long mysterious adventure in Fox’s world.Less controversially, it works perfectly on a historical level. It is researched and detailed to an incredible degree, and is wonderfully informative and entertaining about the Russian Revolution. The Revolution is a subject writers often portray in a rather heavy, dry and boring way but in reality the Revolution was an amazing drama and tragedy. This bizarre comedy brings that out better than any book I have read.