White Nights

Great book, thinner than I expected, but I guess it’s just because it’s a taller version of the book. Great read so far, would recommend

great novel and a great translation for a great price

I never read this short story until this year and I’m grateful I have a physical copy because I could read this over and over again, while never getting sick of it. Such a lovely, sad, but hopeful story experience that I wish to experience reading for the first time again.

This is a book about a baseball nut named Gulash. He has a gross rash that prevented him from playing for the Georgia Peaches legendary baseball team after college. The rash wasn't contagious but no one cared. It was gross and Gulash was always scratching it and then touching things. So they got rid of him. One day he goes to a tag sale and this wise, little, old Chinese woman gives him an old prescription strength tube of cortisone. On the way home he is thinking about popcorn and lottery tickets and he drives straight into a chicken coop. The rooster goes berserk and his final moments are spent in a car being attacked by a mob of irate chickens who go to the bathroom everywhere. But he isn't itchy. He dies in peace surrounded by chaos and feathers. You will like this book!

Loved, came a bit bigger than expected but very good book!

I love this copy for annotations, as the margins are rather spacious and allow for lots of side notes!! Also, the thinness of the copy is perfect for my satchel, considering all of the books that I have to carry for school.

Read it in one night. It's a dark, romantic dreamscape about "the one that got away". It's seemingly told from the perspective of a lonely young man, but in reality I believe it comes from the imagination of the old man whose own relationship has since become stale and mundane, as if his own wife could have instead run off just as he fell in love with her.

An odd story, but overall theme was great. This book demonstrates how everyone views the world in different yet similar ways.