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Buddha's Little Finger (Paperback)

by Victor Pelevin (Author), Viktor Pelevin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (Nov 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141002328
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141002323
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Void Tales, 18 Jun 2008
This review is from: Buddha's Little Finger (Hardcover)
There's an episode of the old british TV classic series Tales of The Unexpected (adaptations from Roald Dahl's short stories of the same name) where a man keeps dreaming he's suffocated his troublesome wife. The next morning he recounts his dream to his astonished secretary. I retain a vivid picture of being on the edge of my seat (I was still young and this was shown late at night) not knowing if the events unfolding were real or dreamscape.

BLF is Peter Voyd's dream(?) account of (a) being a commissar in the civil war between the Bolsheviks and the Tsarists and/or (b) being a patient in a psychiatric institution. Rationally I could make out he was (b) dreaming of (a). Both accounts intertwine throughout the book with very frequent digressions into buddhism, philosophy, metaphysics, psychology, russian-ness and much else besides that appear to have nothing to do with telling a story. It didn't take much prodding before I kept reading just to finish the book since I'm the sort of person who likes to know here he's going and Pelevin's destination seemed like rambling-stan. This is without doubt an ambitious undertaking and one must congratulate Mr P for effort. There could be genius somewhere in here but it was not my fate to find it. BLF reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas and I did not much like that book either.

In the old TOTU the man's dream takes an (un)expected twist. The police turn up one morning just as he's finishing recounting yet another murder dream to his secretary. He's promptly arrested but all of this is just a dream. No? That's how you'll feel when you reach the final page of this book.
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