NP: Solzhenitsyn

[rich]

grew up reading lots on military affairs--but I'm specifically
referencing works that relay alot of informaton on movements of army
groups and divisions, generals and the like. it has its place of
course and I defer to those who've read the works mentioned; I
haven't.

speaking of military portrayals, the new HBO show Generation Kill has
a non-com who really, in my mind, does a great Major-Marvy impression.

best

rich

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:02 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> Well, you know, to each his own.  I recently read Eisenhower's book Crusade
> in Europe and it was not at all leaden.
> Eisenhower, like Grant -- whose memoirs are largely Civil War history and
> very good -- was an excellent writer.
>
> the gulag archipeligo is worth reading but the fiction, at least in
> the later years, the red wheel books, is as leaden as reading military
> history
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: kelber at mindspring.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:46 am
> Subject: Re: NP: Solzhenitsyn
>
> the gulag archipeligo is worth reading but the fiction, at least in
> the later years, the red wheel books, is as leaden as reading military
> history
>
> rich
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> I've never read any of his books.  For those who have, how would you rate
>> his
> strictly literary merits (if it's possible to separate them from his
> political
> merits)?
>>
>> Laura
>>
>