(September 16, 2023 at 2:11 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: One of those books is set in Soviet gulags. And it's depressing. The main character is constantly hungry, going to sham trials, and on the verge of being killed by freezing or brutal guards or overworking or other prisoners. And prisoners sometimes kill other prisoners just so they can go to trial and thus be spared from work for a few months.
They are also so sparse with food that they inspect the outhouses and if there is shit with undigested food in it they would wash the shit off, cook it again, and eat it (again).
I'm glad it's depressing. A novel about the gulags shouldn't be light and breezy.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
