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I'm surprised that anybody talks about Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann). It's an incredible book. It changed my life (really).
by samsaga2 7y ago
I'm surprised that anybody talks about Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann). It's an incredible book. It changed my life (really).
- lordgrenville 7y agoAh, I'm of two minds about this, because I felt like there maybe 30-50 pages of amazing, incredibly deep discussions, but then so many hundreds of pages where it felt like nothing was going on and I was just masochistically slogging through it. I actually feel this about quite a number of classics, especially those considered more "novels of ideas" (The Brothers Karamazov and War and Peace come to mind). But even more so with Magic Mountain. I think Mann was trolling people when he said one has to read it a second time to "get" it. ;)
- janeshmane 7y agoThis novel completely changed my perception of time. Very much worth the effort.