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Urban Rubble
5th August 2004, 04:05
O.K, I shouldn't have said that the book is boring. It's not boring per se, it's just very long, drawn out, and at times redundant. I can't decide if I enjoy it or not. I'm about 400 pages deep and I'm having real trouble going on with it. A guy can only read a vivid description of balls getting stepped on with jackboots so many times. It's actually affecting my reading schedule. Usually I read at least an hour a day, this month it's been about an hour a week because I'm just not excited to read. So, I think I'm going to take a break, read Upton Sinclairs sweet ass WW2 spy book "A World To Win", and then come back to it.

Has anyone actually finished this book ? I read Cancer Ward and loved it by the way.

Lietuva
5th August 2004, 18:06
I've read it, had no problem reading it. However, if you don't like the Gulag Archipelago read Solzhenitsyn's 'Life of Ivan Denisovich.' Its basically the same story except told in 150 some pages and very interesting to read.

Hate Is Art
13th August 2004, 10:32
yawn, he is the dullest piece of crap ever, i couldnt get very far into March 1914 or any of his other books, so crap, wish that lethal injection had killed him!

redstar2000
13th August 2004, 14:08
I tried reading The Cancer Ward once...couldn't get past page 50.

Major yawn!

Lenin in Switzerland was interesting, though...in a fantastical sort of way.

Otherwise, you'd have to pay me a lot to read that guy.

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