Robert M. Goldstein

I enjoyed the book very much and couldn't put it down. This was do to the fact that I wanted to find out what other characters Goldstein was going to meet on the Sibirsk, the Trans-Siberian Express or in the cities that he stops in not to mention the nightmare of arrangements it took to make the trip possible. Then there's the fact that his Russian consisted of "I am Bob. I am a tourist. I am American. I do not speak Russian." Scary! At least when I visited my cousins in western Norway we could find some common words even though they were speaking Nynorsk and while I had learned the official Bokmal. It was a fun read but I'm glad it wasn't me in the Soviet Union starting out on the wrong train.… (altro)