Someone introduced his books to me and so far I’ve read Cancer Ward and In the First Circle
Both of them are incredible reads, I’ve been looking for books with characters that have to face horrible times but refuse to let themselves go, as in that one quote from Paradise Lost “The minds that can make a Heaven out of Hell or a Hell out of Heaven.” Solzhenitsyn is an amazing character writer not just with their dialogue but with the way they perceive both their own history and the environment and weather they will let it influence them or not, so many good characters and quotes from both books. I very much look forward to reading more of his works.
If anyone else has read his books, I’d love to know your opinions.
by NotBorris
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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. It is quite short. I would use it as the yardstick for defining literature. It is an incredible book.
I love the Red Wheel cycle, though the last one was a bit rushed. They’re books I go back and re-read every so often.