The Mustachian Forum
Welcome,
Guest
. Please
login
or
register
.
Did you miss your
activation email
?
1 Hour
1 Day
1 Week
1 Month
Forever
Login with username, password and session length
News:
Home
Help
Search
Login
Register
The Money Mustache Community
»
Mustachian Community
»
Mustachian Book Club
»
Escape from Camp 14
« previous
next »
Print
Pages:
1
Author
Topic: Escape from Camp 14 (Read 4993 times)
Chris Pascale
Handlebar Stache
Posts: 1357
Escape from Camp 14
«
on:
August 14, 2019, 10:28:07 PM »
Extremely well-written book about a guy who escaped North Korea. He was born in, and grew up in, Camp 14.
One critic said "Camp 14 was barely a prison camp," which sounds to me like it was a prison camp, even if just barely.
Logged
lost_in_the_endless_aisle
Guest
Re: Escape from Camp 14
«
Reply #1 on:
August 14, 2019, 11:12:19 PM »
I enjoyed that very much. The descriptions of the camp are up there with Primo Levi's writing about Auschwitz in their peculiar horrors. It's interesting the sort of personalities that survive such situations; they seem to have an abnormal amount of tenacity (yes, ultimately Levi apparently committed suicide, though some claim that he suffered from syncope and that his fatal fall over a stair railing was accidental).
On similar (but somewhat less severe lines), the book
Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
by Fan Shen is an interesting account the various horrors of China's Cultural Revolution.
Logged
Print
Pages:
1
« previous
next »
The Money Mustache Community
»
Mustachian Community
»
Mustachian Book Club
»
Escape from Camp 14