[Cyclopean Squid]

I much prefer Solzhenitysn's novels to his Gulag Archipelago. The First Circle is brilliant and profound. Gulag Archipelago is just rambling. There is no structure--he just goes on and on about how evil the system was, in a sarcastic tone. The novels get the point across much better.

There are few novelists better than Aleksandr, but many, many better historians.

[Basheva]

****I much prefer Solzhenitysn's novels to his Gulag Archipelago. The First Circle is brilliant and profound. Gulag Archipelago is just rambling. There is no structure--he just goes on and on about how evil the system was, in a sarcastic tone. The novels get the point across much better. ****

I enjoyed everything by Solzhenitysn but especially "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch."

[bkepley]

==There is no structure--he just goes on and on about how evil the system was, in a sarcastic tone.

It's the individual stories that interested me. Thousands of them.

[AnnaZ]

There are few novelists better than Aleksandr, but many, many better historians.

"One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch." Possibly the greatest novel ever.