Solzhenitsyn dies at 89
 

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...31313220080803

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/...zhenitsynB.php -- Eight page article.

I believe that this will be the least viewed thread ever posted on GG&Jim unless a bunch of people mistakenly think that Solzhenitsyn was a hockey player.

I was aware of his work, and its acclaim but haven't read anything yet.

RIP.

I read the Gulag Archipelago years ago. It was a great book but didn't get into his hockey career enough.
A fascinating life though. RIP

Solzhenitsyn?? I always thought he was with the Russian Ballet and had defected.

|jester| Just kidding.. I'm a bit more literate than that. I know that he spoke at Harvard one year and almost caused future President Regan to piss himself.

Either way I'm sure if I could ever get enthralled in his work, it would be a great read. Maybe they'll have a graphic novel version.

RIP..

I had no idea he was alive...

I thought he was a banned submitter |huh

I graduated from High School in 1989 if that means anything |greenbat

He was amazing. Stood up to the Russian government and was the first round draft pick in 1976:) I'll have to look more into his work, he was a wild guy.

Oddly enough, that's what shocked me too. It bothered me to not realize that he was alive all this time.

I've only read a couple of his short novels. He's not what I consider to be a pleasurable read. Not a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. But he's one of those authors who feel like you should read because of who he is and what he experienced. But I was raised by a father who read Tolstoy and Solzhenitsyn while he tended a paper machine in a mill.

8 years in a gulag prison can make a guy kind of serious:P

I heard it on NPR.