Date Meeting Held: September 17
Summary: Describes one day in the life of a prisoner in a Soviet labour camp in the 1950s called Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
What We Thought: Most people found the book laborious and dull. We enjoyed the initial stages where the author was describing the camp and some of the other characters but after that found it fairly repetitive. Going against the grain again, K loved it and thought it was the best book we've done at book club so far.
Venue: K's House, Victoria
We Ate: Spaghetti with mascarpone sauce; hot chocolate pots (yum)
1 comment:
>>Most people found the book laborious and dull.<<
Imagine that -- life in a prison camp laborious and dull! Maybe that's part of the point of a book entitled "One Day..." Recall the last lines: "The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the three thousand six hundred and fifty-three. The extra three were for leap years"
And we're just *reading* about it -- not living it...
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