The Gulag

     I just like the way it sounds. Gyu laaag. Interesting.

"And the Kolyma was the greatest and most famous island, the pole of ferocity of that amazing country of Gulag which, though scattered in an Archipelago geographically, was, in the psychological sense, fused into a continent--an almost invisible, almost imperceptible country inhabited by the zek people. And this Archipelago crisscrossed and patterned that other country within which it was located, like a gigantic patchwork, cutting into its cities, hovering over its streets. Yet there were many who did not even guess at its presence and many, many others who had heard something vague. And only those who had been there knew the whole truth."

This man writes an exciting story. Right from the beginning, he catches the reader, and they can't get free, because they're excited! He's already enticed them to wanting to know more. This here is only the beginning. I haven't even gotten further than this before I had to blog it. Hahaa. Anyway, the book is, Vol 1. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. SOLzhenitsyn.