Dermo!: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used

by Edward Topol, Laura E. Wolfsonm, Kim Wilson Brandt, etc.

Release Date: August, 1997

Edition: Paperback

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A Wonderful Little Book

I really like this book in spite of it's few shortcomings. Like at least one other reviewer, I would rather not see the transliterated captions with the cartoons, and I could use stress marks on the cyrillic words, but it's still a great book! It's really entertaining and interesting. Certainly not for children, and no, I wouldn't get carried away trying to use many of these words and phrases with Russian people I didn't know very well. But hey, what a hoot around non Russian speaking people! You will have a new-found "freedom of speech".

Words your mother never taught you.

Some Amazon readers object to the language used in this book. But that's the subject of the book. The author has done a good job with the translations. (One flaw: stress is not given for the Russian, leaving non-natives to guess.) Some people will be offended by the graphic language and stand forewarned. If you learn these terms, do not talk like this. Leave that to natives who know when to use -- and when to avoid -- this kind of potent speech.