[marktwain]

I read it. The evil described in it is so bad, I could not read more than a few pages at a time. It took me months to finish it.

Yes, required reading. Maybe in the Senior year, take the whole year to do it.

[MtnClimber]

I can only read a few pages at a sitting too. It is a documentation of true evil. I have taken a break because it was just too gruesome. I read and then I clean my guns.

[marktwain]

I strongly recommend "Coming Out of the Ice" by Victor Herman.

The Gulag Archepelago is wholesale. Coming out of the Ice is a personal account. They compliment each other very well.