It's funny to see the current grayed-out, lowest rated comment about this being a sexually transmitted book. I'll admit I barely remember it at this point and i

It's funny to see the current grayed-out, lowest rated comment about this being a sexually transmitted book. I'll admit I barely remember it at this point and it mostly stands out to me because my best friend and I hung out at a bookstore pretty regularly after school senior year and a girl who worked there, who graduated a year ahead of us, gave me this book and put a note in it saying I seemed like an emotionally sensitive person who would understand it. I'm reasonably sure she just thought I was physically attractive and was hitting on me, because the reality is I was an emotionally vacant person far more into math than people, but it was amusing nonetheless. Definitely a popular pick for 90s girls. My wife claims Snow Crash constitutes the same phenomenon from her perspective. The reason she first read it is that every high match on every dating site she had in the 2005-2010 era was a dude that mentioned this book on his profile somewhere. Not intending to shit on Kundera. Reading this book didn't change me because I was 18 and about to spend the next decade going through a ton of transformative life experiences that would change me far more than reading anything at all possibly could, but I still remember it being a well-written, thought-provoking book.