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Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Adventures of Tintin) by: Georges Remi Herge

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Rating: - The first in the Famous Tintin Series

This is Herge's first work. It was a pleasure to read. It laid the foundation for all the other Tintin books. This is the only book I have read where he actually writes a story for his paper.

Rating: - Tintin- Mission in Moscow

Read it! If you are a true Tintin fan, I say read it! Even though the book is in a different format to the well known Tintin books (this is in black and white, no colour at all), a true Tintin fan will realise its significance at once. It is the first Tintin book, written in 1929, making it 71 years old to date.

The story concentrates on Tintin, a yound reporter and his dog, Snowy (who seems to be a little TOO know-it-all and obnoxious in this book) travelling to Russia, to report on the situation there. The Soviets are determined to stop them ever reaching Russia- Tintin's train carriage is even blown up by a bomb when he is in it! Soviets try at every chance they get to stop him, and this can sometimes lead to brilliant sequences in the book. My own personal favourite runs from page 57 to page 62. Tintin and Snowy are in a car, and a mechanic lights the dripping petrol from the car, and it's a race against time-will Tintin escape the burning petrol, or will he be blown SKY HIGH? I won't tell you the result, because I'm SURE the good people at Amazon wouldn't want me to tell you the story, because there wouldn't be any point you buying the book, would there? (Needless to say the book runs until page 141, so...)

Tintin gets up to all sorts of escapades, including carving a propeller and piloting the plane through a storm, stealing a police boat (tut tut- Tintin, you bad boy) from under the policeman's nose (tut tut- Policeman, you silly boy) and crashing a car into the front of a train, and... well, I won't tell you any more, in case Amazon and the publishers get mad with me, so, I will end with my opening phrase... Read it!

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