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The Rasputin File Book Report By Casen Akers The Raputin File by Edvard Radzisky, published by Nan A. Talese, 2000, 549 pages. The book is about after the author’s quest to find the missing file on Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin to write a book after finishing his other book, The Last Tzar, containing all information he had found in the file. The book he wrote was The Rasputin File. The book starts off with a prologue where the author explains how he was afraid to with about Rasputin due to myths that surround the story of Rasputin and his lack to understand Rasputin. Within chapter one it goes through talking about the author’s quest to find the missing file on Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin. In the chapters after the author had found the missing file, the …show more content…

As mentioned before, the book is very information rich. It is so heavily filled with information that the majority of the time I felt like it was boring and slow. Someone who loves to know everything there is to know on a topic may enjoy more than I did though. * What are the strengths and weaknesses of the book? The Rasputin File suffers from prioritizing telling all of the missing information on Rasputin in the fullest detail possible than telling the full story of Rasputin making it feel more like an informational read than the biography that it is classified as. The Rasputin File prospers when it actually tells the story of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin. If you were to read through the book skipping the heavily detailed areas of the book, you may have a better, more enjoyable read. * What is your overall response to the book? Did you find it interesting, moving, dull? I found the book very dull. I was hoping more for a straight forward biography of Rasputin. What I got was an informational text with everything to know about Rasputin in which I found it very slow and boring. I also thought it would go off topic when further explaining

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