I Read The Gulag Archipelago, Here’s A Quick Recap!

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@KirtiSrivastav-n6g 6 күн бұрын

Omg i found this yt channel today and I have already binged watched almost all the videos , I loved the reviews i was searching for such channels thank you, you guys are doing a great work!! Keep reading and reviewing 💪

@viviandarkbloom8847 4 ай бұрын

My father bought this book some twenty years ago telling us he always wanted to read it and that he would have done so after his retirement. When the day finally arrived, he gave me the book and decided to spend the rest of his days taking care of his garden. He's still growing vegetables, while I've got this rather intimidating tome on my shelf still wrapped in its plastic packaging. Maybe it's about time :)

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Your comment reads like a really, really short albeit very comforting story for some reason. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. Hope you read the book soon. And your father surely must have an excellent taste in literature!

@ToReadersItMayConcern 4 ай бұрын

I have the three-volume edition ahead of me in my reading plans. The fact that you entered into this book blind-not knowing what to expect-adds much to your review: your thoughts reflect astonishment with horror at what has occurred, and that is a fitting response. Thank you for your poignant thoughts and reactions.

@thetimetraveller7051 4 ай бұрын

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich is another great read by Solzhenitsyn.

@anbuchelvan 4 ай бұрын

Recently bought this book after so much of thinking.. seeing your review on it now makes me feel like my purchase is worth it.. 🔥🔥👍

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

It's a very powerful read, a very memorable reading experience!

@nikhiljayakrishnan Ай бұрын

Haven't read this, but hearing what you say, I'm reminded of Milan Kundera's "The Joke" which is also partly set in one of these mines. Kundera's novel is all the more prescient in today's cancellation era.

@ReadADayClub 28 күн бұрын

Oh nice. I do own a copy of Kundera's The Joke, but haven't gotten around to read it yet! Your words just gave me the nudge I needed to bump it up on my list. Thanks!

@nikhiljayakrishnan 28 күн бұрын

@@ReadADayClub My pleasure. Look forward to hearing your take on it.

@elizabeth_davel 4 ай бұрын

i'm so excited whenever you post (even when it's about heavy books) 🤭📚✨️

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

I love talking about books and even more so if those books are close to my heart. Gulag is certainly one of them! Thank you so much for watching, Elizabeth. Really appreciate it. ❤️🤗

@Orangeandgrey 4 ай бұрын

Same

@darshanpatil7777 4 ай бұрын

You look stunning and the review is as always: 'great' :) If I may, I would like to suggest you to read and review Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher.

@Rahul-bt5hs 4 ай бұрын

This is the best fiction work I read in a long time.

@thestoicrealist9804 3 ай бұрын

As a former armchair communist during my college days, I can say that this book hit me like a ballistic missile. It was this book that saved me from the tyranny of nihilism that communism and socialism inflicts on the psyche of the young. Those who remain insulated to this tyranny, in a sense that they heartily accept this tyranny, further propogate it. Case in point - Every single socialist and "pseudo -progressives" out there to root you out from your tradition and family structures, in that they abhor and oppose every source of traditional solidarity within a community and, thereby, weakening the ties which would resist the tyranny which will ensue once their ideas come to fruition. Couple this book with few non fictions like The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt, for psychological aspects, The Machiavellians by James Burnham, for views on aspects of power, and you have a perfect recipe for cooking a realist conservative out yourself.

@JohnGeometresMaximos 4 ай бұрын

Read "Brainwashing" by Edward Hunter and "Thought Reform" by Lifton To learn more about Psy torture.

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the recommendations! Adding them to the list right away. 😀

@kackljas 4 ай бұрын

I normally don't get nightmares from books or movies, but this book gave me nightmares for a long time.

@HideAndRead 4 ай бұрын

Not an easy book to review, I think you did a great job. House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky is similar topic but a bit less depressing. Dostoyevesky spent time in the camps before the revolution.

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! And yeah, not an easy book to talk about for sure. Dostoevsky's The House of the Dead, I still haven't read it. Currently making my way through his The Brothers Karamazov and relishing every bit of it. 🖤

@HideAndRead 4 ай бұрын

@@ReadADayClub I hope to hear you you talk about that one day, but for now Enjoy! (It really is the best)

@xdf41 4 ай бұрын

If you are interested in reading this book i recommend reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by same author, short read and definately excite to you read Gulag archipelago.

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Oh yes, have to get to that one!! Thanks for sharing. 😄

@bacca7730 4 ай бұрын

I spy a copy of Blood Meridian! Have you read it or anything by McCarthy? It would be very interesting to hear what you thought!

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

I've read his No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. It was quite an unusual experience for me, I mean because of his writing style. I feel like I need to read his books at least 2-3 times to fully comprehend and maybe even appreciate the literature.

@bacca7730 4 ай бұрын

@@ReadADayClub That's interesting to hear. I started with All The Pretty Horses and it's meant to be one of the better books of his to start with and it was only after the second read that his style clicked and I started to really enjoy it. Definitely an author worth persevering with though!

@gurmankaur6327 4 ай бұрын

You must read Secondhand Time and other works by Svetlana Alexievich.

@Orangeandgrey 4 ай бұрын

This is honestly my fav yt channel.. very underrated channel.. pls keep posting ❤

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Thank you. Will do. 💛💛

@jackderbyshire 4 ай бұрын

I've been meaning to read this one for a while. I recently read "Man's Search for Meaning" by Frankl and I feel there's a lot of crossover in themes with these two books. I should probably take a break before going into another heartbreaker. Thanks for the insight, a good primer for this work :)

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Reading Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, which I picked up just last year, was such a moving experience. I keep going back to it, reading bits and pieces here and there to sort of ground my thoughts. The crossover in themes definitely stands out, it's all cut from the same cloth. Hope you read the book soon! 🙂

@Bibliopolitan 4 ай бұрын

Great job.

@AjayKumar-g8w6h 4 ай бұрын

Can you suggest some literature based on poverty like hunger by knut hamsun ?

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Ummmm Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Nausea, all of Beckett's works I guess, Life a User's Manual by Georges Perec, Kobo Abe's Kangaroo Notebook. These are the ones that come to mind.

@AjayKumar-g8w6h 4 ай бұрын

@@ReadADayClub thanks you 🙏

@depotemkin 4 ай бұрын

Это значимая для нашей страны книга, но я бы относился к ней скептически. В ней часть правды, но часть вымысла, чтобы как бы отомстить власти. Другой узник лагерей, Варлам Шаламов, отзывался о Солженицене не очень любезно именно за эту привычку приукрасить там, где не надо

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Hi, thank you for sharing your thoughts. I used Google Translate: "This is a significant book for our country, but I would be skeptical about it. There is part of the truth in it, but part of the fiction, in order to take revenge on the authorities. Another prisoner of the camps, Varlam Shalamov, did not speak very kindly of Solzhenitsyn precisely for this habit of embellishing where it was not necessary."

@Fury851 Ай бұрын

I found the book very hard to follow and difficult to understand. Be good if they released a dumbed down version to explain what each chapter is trying to say. Or would be great to have an audio explanation after each chapter. I think more would get a lot from it then. Cause as it is, the working class cannot read a book like gulag archipelago

@sumanthg.s1795 4 ай бұрын

Is everything mentioned in the book completely true?

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, yes.

@ChikuSharma786 4 ай бұрын

Please make a video on The Second Sex by Simone de beauvoir 🤗❤️

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Alright, duly noted. :)

@Saumya-gm2wg 4 ай бұрын

Are you pursuing your KZbin as a whole or is it a side gig?

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

Neither actually. Just something we (my sister and I) do because we love to read and talk about reading.

@vhyomet620 4 ай бұрын

I think of how any conception of utopia starts and ends only goes on to provide more evidence for the tragic view of life and human nature. What Thucydides says in the History he writes, what Homer testifies in his Iliad or what Vyasa leads one to in the Mahabharata. What even is there if not the self-overcoming of nihilism in modern times. And maybe tragic view will always leave space for hope in moments, which helped Solzhenitsyn survive. What Pascal wrote in the Pensees..."The heart has its reasons which reason will never understand."

@ReadADayClub 4 ай бұрын

You know I bought Blaise Pascal's Pensées a while ago but haven't got to reading it yet. But the quote you shared makes me want to read the book soon, and maybe I will. :):) Thanks for watching and leaving this comment, it's so interesting how you connected the dots across different pieces of literature.

@vhyomet620 4 ай бұрын

@@ReadADayClub Some words just stick by you and you cannot ever forget them. This was surely one of those that I read three years ago. Nietzsche has so many like that, for me. Another one is Max Weber's in his Protestant Ethic, when he speaks of modernization and this rational world as we believe it to be today, one which has “specialists without spirit, sensualists without a heart".