/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13904440]

Does anyone else think this book it too long for what it is? Or does it start to get more interesting?

[Anonymous No.13904664]

>>13904440
It's interesting for the change of perspective on communism it brought on some European countries, like France

[Anonymous No.13904952]

>>13904664
>crazy how this book promoted for political reasons altered people's politics

[Anonymous No.13904965]

>>13904440
It's boring as fuck and I like some of Solzhenitsyn's essays a lot. I don't like anything about the USSR or marxists/socialists/etc in general but political novels are just cancer.

[Anonymous No.13904995]

>>13904440
I read it thanks to Jordan Peterson. Changed my life tbqhwy

[Anonymous No.13905061]

>>13904440
I'm reading the unabridged version (something like 1600 pages in total) and am half through. I'd wish for it to be twice as long. I never get tired reading about the insanity of gulag. Each individual story is a new wonder.
>for what it is
It starts with gommunism, but ends at the human condition.

I also read most of Dostoevsky, and previous to this (2 books back) read House of the Dead, about D's experiences in russian prison years before stalin was ever born. Then I was like, "Damn this is pretty steep." But to follow it with GA and see what real horror and cruelty are is an evolution of perspective. Dostoevsky probably wrote that in the hopes of banning the russian people together to end such atrocities by raising awareness. And then, the next century, we get gulag and the kgb.

[Anonymous No.13906113]

>>13904440
Eh, too long and boring, fantasy novels aren't really my thing.

[Anonymous No.13906210]

It's supposed to be long though. I wouldn't recommend reading it unless you like his way if writing though.
His best book is probably "in the first circle"