Marc's review of The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
This is the most significant non-fiction book that has been written in human history. This is the most significant positive book that has been written in human history. A few books are more significant, but they stray toward fiction and negative impacts here and there. This book is highly entertaining and gripping. I don't think that entertaining is necessarily the wrong word. This is a book about the survival, triumph, and complexity of the human spirit against a crushing system. That is high uplifting. It makes the story completely involving, uplifting, and it is so well written. I am bored sitting through the annual 90 minute hollywood attempt to turn the holocaust into a family comedy, romance, etc. I was very happy to have the priviledge of sitting of spending dozens of hours reading the volumes of The Gulag Archipelago. The golden buddha, the escape and trek through the steppes, the kites, it was all so memorable and surreal. Solzhenitsyn assembles countless personal stories and ...more
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