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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 Oct 2006 | | 80 | zimbeline, March 2007 |
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... like us to places where we can watch them 24/7.
If youse guyz don't value your privacy maybe a quick cruise through the Gulag Trilogy by Solzenitsyn will give you some idea of what a government privy to everyone's lives and secrets can and will do to its citizens in the name of internal ... ... Grealy
364 Criminology - All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
365 Penal and Related Institutions - Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
394 General Customs - Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
423 English Dictionaries - The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winche ... ... that help no one. The UN would be a fine example.
And not to mention the 400,000+ bodies in mass graves.
After I read Gulag: A History I will never support America not actively ending mass slaughter. Any means are jusified. That book changed my life.
... how Islam has impacted the world up to today)
3. WWII (who doesn't like WWII history?)
4. Communist Russia (I read Gulag: A History and was hooked.)
... Solzhenitsyn is just the most hilarious laugh-because-you-can't-cry writer in any language.
One gotcha for Gulag; brush up on Russian history (particularly between wars) and it will go a little easier; my sister complained that she WOULD have made it through the first volume if ... Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
Administrators and warders dutifully enforced rules and regulations. —51
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
If random violence and unfair treatment bothered the prisoner, those higher up the Soviet hierarchy were disturbed by somewhat different issues.—29
The White Sea Canal construction was remarkable in many ways: for its overwhelming chaos, for its ... Anne Applebaum has a book about the history of the Gulag.
That's as close as I can come.
Gulag ... in 2006. My top 5 would be:
CHATTERTON by Peter Ackroyd
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
The Embarrassment of Riches: an Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama (I can't help adoring all ... ... for next, and I also get to see how many people are reading a bestselling book and why.
Currently I'm still stuck on Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum, which I've been reading for the last couple weeks. I'm now in the latter half of the book, so hopefully I'll finish soon, when my ... I'm reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, and Gulag: a history by Anne Applebaum. Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
Bookmark Now, edited by Kevin Smokler
Added:
Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America by Jeffery Sheler
Blog of War, edited by Matthew Currier Burden ... Davis Hanson The Soul of Battle is a good companion.
However, the best history book I've read in a LONG time is Gulag: A History. THis book is so brutal in its descriptions it's hard to read at some times. But to think this was going on in a "modern" country in my lifetime (I'm 25) ...
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