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A review by trayceebee
Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld by Nicolai Lilin
4.0
I won this book through GoodReads First Reads, for which I am very grateful. I'm not sure I'd have heard of this book otherwise, and I probably wouldn't have picked it up. But since I won it, I had a chance to read a wonderful memoir!
This book reads like Nicholas Pileggi's "Wiseguy: A life in the Mafia", about Henry Hill. It jumps around quite a bit, and it's pretty graphic when detailing beatings and killings that occur. But, like "Wiseguy", it's a compelling story and one that was difficult to put down.
I found that, once you get used to the writing style, this book is well written. I really enjoyed it quite a lot. I found it interesting that, while Nicolai admits that he is a criminal and all of his family and friends are criminals, they're the ones I was rooting for throughout the whole story. I felt like the criminals, in this case, were the "good guys".
Great story--one I'll read again, for sure!
This book reads like Nicholas Pileggi's "Wiseguy: A life in the Mafia", about Henry Hill. It jumps around quite a bit, and it's pretty graphic when detailing beatings and killings that occur. But, like "Wiseguy", it's a compelling story and one that was difficult to put down.
I found that, once you get used to the writing style, this book is well written. I really enjoyed it quite a lot. I found it interesting that, while Nicolai admits that he is a criminal and all of his family and friends are criminals, they're the ones I was rooting for throughout the whole story. I felt like the criminals, in this case, were the "good guys".
Great story--one I'll read again, for sure!