I admit, I got this book to check out partly out of curiosity - an entire book of Soviet Bus Stops? I promised to tell some friends when I got my hands on the book whether it really was something that deserved an entire book (two, in fact, as I know there's a volume two). I had just finished with Brutal Block Postcards, which was an interesting compendium.

Well . . . the introduction was quite fascinating, and illuminating, and some of the architecture within is wild. So . . . yes, it was definitely worthy of an entire book - and I'd love to check out the second volume sometime.

(There were, however, a few spots where it looked like the formatting of the book/photos had gone . . . awry? Nothing but the caption text on an otherwise empty page, with a photo and no caption on the facing page, for example. A few photos that looked like accidental shots that seemed a little random/accidental to include in this book.) ( )