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by Mark Ames (Author), Matt Taibbi (Author) "the eXile was the perfect name for our newspaper ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press (27 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0802136524
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802136527
  • Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.1 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Moscow -from 1995 - 1999 - Spot On !, 21 Feb 2001
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Anyone who lived in Moscow during this period will enjoy this book. It brought back memories for me of drunken nights in the Hungry Duck (surely the best club ever!) and Russian girls.

Ames & Taibbi have also covered stories of corruption that the Russian press have been too scared to publish. This book should be essential reading for ALL students of Russia.

A great book written by two great guys

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ugly and turgid view of post-Soviet Moscow, 8 Jul 2000
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With Russia being the Wild East and apparently falling apart at the same time as providing businessmen from the West with a new market to foist their wares upon, you would expect Moscow of the 1990s to be the perfect setting for a blistering burlesque against the onward march of 'Globalisation' and the evils of market capitalism.

And so it probably is, but not for Mark Ames and Matt Taibi, joint editors of biweekly Moscow rag 'The eXile'. They instead regale us with a squalid account of their sexual activities with destitute Russian teenagers addicted to every narcotic known to man, interrupting these sojourns with dull and leaden-footed reports on the ex-pat community.

You would think another stumbling block to writing effective satire is not being very funny. But this has not hindered Ames/Taibbi one iota. Example: on the death of Mexican poet Octavio Paz they printed a fake poem next to a picture of Speedy Gonzalez. They admit that this was in bad taste, but bad taste can be funny. I'm not quibbling with bad taste, just that neither the poem nor the picture is very funny.

I think I chuckled once in the course of the book's 238 pages.

Hugely disappointing as this book received very good reviews. If you want an intelligent satire on post-Soviet Russia I recommend Victor Pelevin's work, but unless you wish to be bored with two American Jock's sexual proclivities in Moscow, steer well clear.

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