I Love Books

I finally found the courage to read Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. I bought the first book )out of three) today, 700 pages long. I plan not to read it in one go, I will likely take breaks to read other books.

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Whiterosesociety

"Darkness at Noon" is a book I thought would be in the same vein, but after that I decided never again to read scenes of gratuitous abuse against people. I already understand and can't read any more about it.

Just me maybe.

Cierzo · M

@Whiterosesociety 'Darkness at noon' is a very good book, but nowhere as terrifying as Solzhenitsyn's detailed picture of the atrocities and capriciousness of a murderous regime that could sentence anyone to spend ten or more years of their lived in a camp for no reason.

Whiterosesociety

@Cierzo as I grew older I became way less tolerant of reading about abuse.

I got through the Solz. book a little earlier and with less trauma. It got harder later.

and 4 animals..never do, never will, not 4 me