tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376519809472921104.post748586242231137940..comments2024-03-06T12:55:14.313-05:00Comments on Major Yammerton: Aleksandr Isayevich SolzhenitsynMajorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05038437416575948282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376519809472921104.post-30817514151865059382016-08-20T22:27:50.999-04:002016-08-20T22:27:50.999-04:00Add me to the club. I adore Cancer Ward, as hard t...Add me to the club. I adore Cancer Ward, as hard to read as it was, specially the first pages. Boom. You are there, surrounded by cancer, at a, yes, cancer ward, ha ha ha. I did not think I'd like this long book that much either. I realized too that I was advancing, until I came to half way there, when I had to keep reading, more, more... I've never tried any other of his titles. I love the Russians, but I have to be in the mood for the marathon.Silviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17249978624747684879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376519809472921104.post-91093027187636811902016-08-04T08:05:04.576-04:002016-08-04T08:05:04.576-04:00Thanks for the comment. I too tried Gulag, found i...Thanks for the comment. I too tried Gulag, found it very hard going, and put it down after about 100 pages. Majorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05038437416575948282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1376519809472921104.post-76487898919900444642016-08-03T20:50:54.349-04:002016-08-03T20:50:54.349-04:00I read the Cancer Ward many years ago and I agree...I read the Cancer Ward many years ago and I agree, it was really amazing. I didn't expect a "Russian Novel" much less a book about cancer, to be so page turning. . I have heard great things about “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”. I have a good friend whose parents are Latvian, so I can also recommend it to him.<br />I later tried to read The Gulag Archipelago and found it unbelievably turgid and dull. So I didn’t finish it. Maybe Solzhenitsyn non-fiction is to be avoided!<br />Ruthiellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03871834571645928819noreply@blogger.com