Daily Archives: June 4, 2005

10 Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

My flight back to Moscow was without incident. I slept most of the four hours to Atlanta and some of the ten to Moscow. Believe it or not Delta has direct flights from Atlanta, of all places, to Moscow. I guess its one of the perks of being a main Delta hub.

Ilya, my driver from Sheremetevo to my apartment, was a friendly guy. A bit obsessed with cars, though. I spent the whole one and a half hour ride listening to his various takes on cars. He’s a big Nissan fan (he claimed that he was buying a new one next week), and thought BMW and Mecedes were good in band only, while the cars themselves were shit. When I asked him if Russian cars had any merit, he went on a rant on how they were total shit. ..read more