Don't say that! I bought it at a book sale because it was written by Solzhenitsyn and haven't read it yet.
But I guess it's no great waste even if the book isn't that good, seeing as I only paid fifty cents.
The price was right. CANCER WARD by Solzhenitsyn is my all time favorite novel. I've learned that the American translator took liberties and it is probably an easy read in English for an American than in Russian for a Russian.
Don't worry, there is nothing convoluted or opaque about Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago". It is a straightforward historical account about the horrific Soviet communist concentration camp system, written by someone who experienced it for over a decade.
The enormity of the Gulag system and its mountainous criminality as described by Solzhenitsyn will shock and overwhelm the reader. But you must read it through, if only for the moral purpose of committing the Gulag victims' fate to your own memory, and not letting them be forgotten.
you got the entire Gulag for 50 cents? the whole thing is in several volumes and runs about 2000 pages!
it is well worth the read, IMO.
Read it. Fiction though it is, it is a history of the times that were and that threaten to yet engulf us. It is not convoluted but it is long.
==Don't say that! I bought it at a book sale because it was written by Solzhenitsyn and haven't read it yet.
It's nonsense. I read all three volumes two or three times. Very good reading.
I thought this book mught be inpenetrable but it turned out to be a page turner.