# Оправдание Острова - Eugene Vodolazkin Finished: 5/15/2021 Rating: 4\* A "pritcha" about history. Would recommend. * It was quite enjoyable to read overall. * The chapters about making the movie and life in Paris seemed boring. * Maybe a bit too long. Why did they need a chapter about a horse-obsessed leader after a bee-obsessed leader? * It seems to mock the entire world history, not just the Russian. But nothing is too precise. * It makes one look at the history of the world "from the above". * The mystical element (ancient princes, yelling "knife" across the island, people generally hearing things from too far) are... interesting. * The mocking of the revolution was hilarious. * The narrator is unreliable, is he? For some parts of the story, he's very explicitly unreliable (when there are two tales of the same event), but for the rest? I wonder if the story of the revolution and of the abdication is told honestly. Are the ancient prince and princess really this holy? * I just love his style. * A lot of kindness and wisdom in there. * I loved the "discoveries" of evidence of their ancestry from August. I will read more of Vodolazkin for sure. Yuzefovich review: --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://wiki.ainzzorl.lol/books-1/opravdanie-ostrova-eugene-vodolazkin.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.