The character of the glitches vary, but a glitch is a glitch. Sometimes, audio books from Audible (elsewhere too?) contain glitches which seem to sometimes result in missing phrases/passages, or duplicated phrases/passages. I didn’t expect it to be so clever and comical. The book is well performed by the reader, and the text itself is perfectly wonderful.

Hilarious and well done, but massive sections of the manuscript are missing? So, get this audiobook and indulge in it, enjoy every second. He handles all the different characters perfectly. The audibook narrator Nicholas Boulton is simply amazing.

That he did it all on purpose to fit the overall theme of the book which I don’t want to spoil. However, me personally I like the theory that he didn’t go mad but quite the opposite. The usual explanation is that Gogol went mad and tried to destroy this book. And yes, the book is missing a lot of pages in second part and ends mid-sentence. But, I have enjoyed everything thoroughly. For some people these constant descriptions of details might get boring after a while, and story can get confusing as a result. If you let it, this book will teach you a lot about how people behave and how to deal with it.

We have advanced technologically but not as humans. All character traits and stereotypes are the same today. After you read this book you will come to understanding that we as people haven’t changed that much in last 200 years. The character stereotypes he portrays are so true that I cannot fathom out how he could know all of this back in 19th century. The unimaginable attention to detail Gogol gives to every person, town, or anything mentioned makes it very easy to use your imagination and construct this places in your mind and start living the story like you were there. And this is where the biggest strength of Gogol and this book lies. He goes from town to town, trying to execute his master business plan and meets un-ending variety of characters.

The story revolves around character named Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov who perfectly fits description of modern day entrepreneur except he lived in different time of our history. Second of all, Dead Souls is yet another stunning classic. First of all, I have bit of a soft spot for Russian classical literature, maybe because I still haven’t read one bad book from this genre.

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