I really liked this book. I felt Solzhenitsyn did a great job of details and way of telling his story in the era it was published....I did have a hard time telling whether the narrator or Shukhov was thinking. Like when he talked about the poem the medical person was writing.
The characters had different names so it was easy for me to get confused on who was who. I wrote down a list of characters and their different personalities. That seemed to help me. The vocab in the book wasnt to hard as I assumed it was to be close with uneducated prisoners??
The unjust suffering and lack of humane dignity in the book mad me sad..to think that this really happened is awful...I believe the book is important to the people of the former Soviet Union to understand what happened....
It would be interesting to know if other prisoners would or did write about their days in the labor camps. And I cant help but wonder what happened after....did they survive, did they die, did they loose their minds in it all???
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