Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died today

[DaveDragon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solzhenitsyn

[Bobnoxous]

Thanks Dave. I had not heard of him before. A brave man. I wonder if I can get a copy of his book "The Gulag Archipelago" in audio form. I booked with reading material.

[GolfGuy]

Thanks Dave. I had not heard of him before. A brave man. I wonder if I can get a copy of his book "The Gulag Archipelago" in audio form. I booked with reading material.

We studied it in College...great book! Very enlightening!
If they have the book in audio form...you could take a trip from one coast to the other and myabe not finish it! :D

[Bobnoxous]

We studied it in College...great book! Very enlightening!
If they have the book in audio form...you could take a trip from one coast to the other and myabe not finish it! :D"Sorry honey, I have to drive to the east coast and back. I have a good book to listen to." I'll add that to my list.

[RonKMiller]

I deeply mourn him :( - he was one of the greatest humanitarians of our time and virtually unknown by western culture. I'll never forget his speech in 1978 at Harvard that declared:

"... the West erred in measuring other civilizations by its own model. He asserted that the countries of the Western world had lost their "civil courage." While faulting Soviet society for denying fair legal treatment of people, he also faulted the West for being too legalistic, "A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities."

We are now sadly living his prophecy.

RIP Aleksandr - you ROCKED my world. :yeah: