Where do I start? 
 At first read, I merely thought this giant novel was just random vignettes, about random people, doing random things, until it yielded into a cohesive story. But - the story is only part of it. This book is also part history of the Russian Revolution(s) and also an epic soap opera. There's war, a love story, tragic deaths, betrayals, you name it. With that, I can't really tell you what it is about other than the life of a man named Dr. Yurii Andreivich Zhivago.