Enormous Room vs Архипелаг ГУЛАГ: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Concentration Camps, Biography & Memoir, Fiction
Enormous Room
"Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), famously known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, essayist, painter, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays…
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Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
“How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?”
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart…
The verdict
- Readers rate Архипелаг ГУЛАГ highest: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ 4.1 · Enormous Room 3.8.
- Enormous Room is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 12 for Архипелаг ГУЛАГ.
- Архипелаг ГУЛАГ has the widest readership — 17 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Enormous Room | Архипелаг ГУЛАГ | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 2.8 (4) | — |
| Google Books | — | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (8) | — |
Reception
| Enormous Room | Архипелаг ГУЛАГ | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 8 | 17 |
| Editions | 75 | 88 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 16248 |
| Pages | 248 | 660 |