Awesome review! I will let my friends to read your review (he'd been creating meme about gulag this, gulag that), he's a funny guy that could find a lot of jokes about capitalism, communism, soviet, and so on...

By the way, have you read books by Pramoedya Ananta Toer? He was writing his famous tetralogy, in a miserable prison where he would use anything to write, because he's not allowed to write...

Some even say that he was creating story of the whole 4 books, orally...