from dele2451

The train information, travel recollections, Russian history, and personal interviews were wonderful. The author's repeated use of the word "stability" and his over emphasis on that term as an ideological goal (especially later in the book) detracted somewhat from the overall read. The trip pics ...

from witchyrichy

David Greene was an NPR correspondent based in Moscow prior to becoming a host of Morning Edition in 2012. Midnight in Siberia is his reporting memoir of a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway. As he does with much of his reporting, Greene focuses on individuals and how their stories reveal larger ...

from debnance

I swear that I could hear David Green reading this story to me as I read along. Greene is an NPR reporter and was assigned for some years to Russia. He's got a reporter's curiosity that drives him to stop and interview all the intriguing folks he runs across. And, brother, does he ever run across...

from nemoman

Greene was NPR's Moscow Bureau Chief for several years. Before, returning to the States he traveled across Russia by train. This book is an account of that trip. Along the way , he visits and stays with a number of Russian families. He begins to understand their love/hate affair with Putin, and w...

from olevia

One of those books which might have been better served by not having the author read it. Even if the author is an NPR reporter.