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A review by donzhivago
The Gulag Archipelago, Volume I by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.0
tl;dr: Communism is stupid and ideology is bad
Vol. 1 is a tough one to review. It's absolutely 5 star quality: well written, well researched, with the added layer of Solzhenitsyn's actual imprisonment.
So the question comes down to the "un" in unabridged. The unabridged is defined by excess. In a 2100 page book, there is going to be depth and breadth, but I don't know whether the depth adds much to the experience.
While the annotated list of 60+ ways to torture people was definitely a laugh filled frolic, Do items 10-60 really add anything to the experience? Are the 30 examples which differ only through slight variations really all that necessary?
With the rise of fascism in the 2010s, this is absolute required reading, but there's also a reason why the abridged version is the standard.
Vol. 1 is a tough one to review. It's absolutely 5 star quality: well written, well researched, with the added layer of Solzhenitsyn's actual imprisonment.
So the question comes down to the "un" in unabridged. The unabridged is defined by excess. In a 2100 page book, there is going to be depth and breadth, but I don't know whether the depth adds much to the experience.
While the annotated list of 60+ ways to torture people was definitely a laugh filled frolic, Do items 10-60 really add anything to the experience? Are the 30 examples which differ only through slight variations really all that necessary?
With the rise of fascism in the 2010s, this is absolute required reading, but there's also a reason why the abridged version is the standard.