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The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

published: 1973, read: 6/14/17

528 pages, genre: Non-Fiction

rating: 7.75/10, normalized: 7.5/10

0.451σ better than average

0.363σ or 0.308/10 better than average in Non-Fiction genre

methinks I read this in high school to be high brow and it just made me depressed and further redpilled (but not the kind of redpilled). Baller backstory behind its publication, and really good for non-fiction which I usually find to be dry, but it still checks the boxes I like in my fiction: evocative of strong emotion and violent ¯\(ツ)/¯

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6/14/17	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	The Gulag Archipelago	528	1973	Non-Fiction	7.750	7.500
6/26/26	William T. Vollmann	Europe Central	832	2005	Historical Fiction	8.550	8.389	Russiareferenced
10/23/26	Alexander Pushkin	Eugene Onegin	304	1833	Poetry	7.750	7.500	Russia	Preston
10/16/26	Mikhail Lermontov	A Hero of Our Time	208	1840	Fiction	7.450	7.167	Russia	Zack B.
10/12/26	Fyodor Dostoevsky	White Nights	96	1848	Fiction	6.500	6.111	Russia	Taylor R.
7/31/26	Mikhail Bulgakov	Heart of a Dog	123	1968	Fiction	7.350	7.056	Russia	Zack B.
6/6/26	Mikhail Bulgakov	The Master and Margarita	450	1967	Fiction	7.650	7.389	Russia
11/27/25	Vladimir Sorokin	Their Four Hearts	204	1994	Fiction	7.500	7.222	Russia
10/22/25	Milan Kundera	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	314	1984	Fiction	8.200	8.000	Russia	Ben Roth
9/18/25	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Poor Folk	288	1846	Fiction	6.750	6.389	Russia	Tommy A.
7/11/25	Vladimir Nabokov	The Enchanter	144	1986	Fiction	7.750	7.500	Russia
7/10/25	Vladimir Nabokov	Look at the Harlequins!	224	1974	Fiction	8.286	8.095	Russia
7/9/25	Vladimir Nabokov	Poems and Problems	218	1969	Poetry	N/A	N/A	Russia
6/19/25	Vladimir Nabokov	Pnin	208	1957	Fiction	7.650	7.389	Russia
6/9/25	Vladimir Nabokov	Bend Sinister	272	1947	Fiction	7.250	6.944	Russia
5/20/25	James Clavell	Noble House Asian Saga (5)	1284	1981	Historical Fiction	8.333	8.148	referenced
4/20/25	Vladimir Nabokov	Glory	224	1932	Fiction	6.750	6.389	Russia
4/15/25	David Foster Wallace	The Pale King	636	2011	Fiction	7.750	7.500	beauracracy
1/30/25	Leo Tolstoy	The Death of Ivan Ilyich	128	1886	Fiction	6.750	6.389	Russia	King
12/26/24	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Notes from Underground	168	1864	Fiction	7.500	7.222	Russia	Tommy A.
10/20/24	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Idiot	486	1869	Fiction	7.125	6.806	Russia	Tommy A.
10/1/24	Fyodor Dostoevsky	Crime and Punishment	527	1866	Fiction	7.286	6.984	Russia	Tommy A.
8/14/24	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	898	1880	Fiction	8.654	8.504	Russia	Tommy A.
6/2/24	Philip K. Dick	Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said	259	1974	Sci-Fi	7.063	6.736	beauracracy
5/25/24	Vladimir Nabokov	Pale Fire	301	1962	Ergodic	10.000	10.000	Russia
5/22/24	George Reavey	The New Russian Poets 1953-68	269	1968	Poetry	N/A	N/A	Russia
7/15/23	Gene Wolfe	Fifth Head of Cerberus	244	1972	Sci-Fi	9.083	8.981	beauracracy
10/10/17	Naguib Mahfouz	The Thief and the Dogs	162	1961	Historical Fiction	7.250	6.944	beauracracy	Steg
5/27/17	Franz Kafka	The Trial	150	1925	Fiction	7.500	7.222	beauracracy
11/10/26	Pope Leo XIV	I Am a Son of Saint Augustine	104	2026	Non-Fiction	7.250	6.944
9/1/26	Peter Murphy	Through the Heretical Lens (1)	192	2026	Non-Fiction	7.950	7.722
7/3/26	Arthur Sewell	A Study in Milton's Christian Doctrine	214	1939	Non-Fiction	8.750	8.611
6/22/26	W.B.C Watkins	An Anatomy of Milton's Verse	146	1955	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
5/27/26	John Peter	A Critique of Paradise Lost	172	1970	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
5/18/26	C.S. Lewis	A Preface to Paradise Lost	143	1942	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
4/16/26	Bronze Age Pervert	Bronze Age Mindset	198	2018	Non-Fiction	5.000	4.444
4/3/26	Mel Robbins	The Let Them Theory	336	2024	Non-Fiction	6.000	5.556
3/12/26	F.T. Prince	The Italian Element in Milton's Verse	208	1962	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
3/10/26	Douglas Bush	Paradise Lost in our Time	117	1957	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
3/8/26	E.M.Y. Tillyard	Studies in Milton	176	1973	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
3/2/26	Philippa Snow	Which as You Know Means Violence	120	2022	Non-Fiction	7.875	7.639
2/22/26	Denys Turner	The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism	292	1998	Non-Fiction	7.750	7.500
2/17/26	Isabel MacCaffrey	Paradise Lost as “Myth”	229	1959	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
2/15/26	Walter Curry Clyde	Milton's Ontology Cosmogony and Physics	226	1957	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
2/6/26	Williiam Kerrigan	The Sacred Complex	298	1983	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
1/27/26	Thomas Kranidas	The Fierce Equation	158	1965	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
1/24/26	James Whaler	Counterpoint and Symbol	226	1956	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
1/22/26	Malcom Ross	Poetry & dogma	256	1954	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
1/18/26	George Conklin	Biblical Criticism and Heresy in Milton	137	1971	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
1/11/26	Michael Lieb	The Dialectics of Creation: Patterns of Birth & Regeneration	244	1969	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
1/8/26	William G. Madsen	From Shadowy Types to Truth	202	1967	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
1/5/26	William Empson	Milton's God	276	1961	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
12/18/25	John Milton	De Doctrina Christiana	564	1645	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
12/8/25	Harold Bloom	The Western Canon	528	1994	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
9/21/25	Stanley Fish	Surprised by Sin: the Reader in Paradise Lost	364	1967	Non-Fiction	7.000	6.667
9/18/25	Geoffrey Hartman	A Critic's Journey: Literary Reflections	340	1998	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
9/15/25	Louis Martz	20th Century Views: Milton, Paradise Lost: A Collection of Essays	209	1966	Non-Fiction	7.750	7.500
8/8/25	Samuel Johnson	The Lives of English Poets	560	1779	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
8/2/25	Balachandra Rajan	Paradise Lost and the Seventeenth Century Reader	176	1947	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
7/30/25	John Milton	Areopagitica and Other Political Writings of John Milton	472	1644	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
7/30/25	A.J.A. Waldock	Paradise Lost: And Its Critics	160	1961	Non-Fiction	N/A	N/A
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