Completely different books. But I recommend buying them. "Diary of a Freezing Muscovite" by oleg_kozyrev
Back in the day, Oleg caused quite a sensation when he started posting these notes on his LiveJournal. I remember that on Yandex, in the "Entertainment" section, he stayed in first place for a long time. Without spending any money at all. At last, he has published the "Diary." And we got a book with excellent humor. As a matter of fact, I’m even quoted on the back cover with words of praise for Kozyrev. And I have no other words for him. 2. "Outsider." By Vladimir Nesterenko. Also known as adolfych. An excessively vicious LiveJournal user from Kyiv. But the book is excellent.
It came out a long time ago. Everyone has probably already read it, but if you haven’t, buy it. It’s a screenplay. A real screenplay, with all the usual stuff like "the camera moves in here and shows this and that." But it reads in one breath. You simply can’t put it down. The best thing about it is the dialogue. It seems to me that this is the main problem with our cinema. You can have an interesting plot. Visuals. Good actors. But listening to what they say is simply unbearable. Here, though, the dialogue feels true to life and is interesting at the same time. The catch is that these brilliant dialogues will most likely make a screen adaptation difficult: as befits criminal characters from the 1990s, they use profanity every other word. I can’t imagine how a film with that much obscene language could ever be released. Some deputy like Chuev would hang himself in his office. And half the State Duma with him. And if you cut out all the profanity, there will be neither tension in the action nor any truthfulness left. So any potential director has a difficult task ahead. By the way, does anyone happen to know? Are they going to make a film based on "Outsider"?
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