Stacey
Arlington
A story about this — 3 years ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Read this in little bits and pieces at work, since it was the only book worth reading on the office bookshelf. Now I’m done with it, and, conveniently, I’m quitting tomorrow. Stayed just long enough.
I was amused. Funny book. The version I read had pictures (some of them were even in color!). I like how it can still be funny even centuries after it was written. Of course, every time I picked up the book, I either started having visions of Wishbone running after Don Quixote battling the windmills, or my mind’s resident Broadway cast started up with “To Dream the Impossible Dream”. Fun times.
Anyways, good book, easy read, recommended.
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Christopher
Peterborough
I have a feeling Don Quixote is a book it will take me a long time to get to reading.
Thank you so much for recommending The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I am indebted to you and rumsoakedboy for encouraging me to read this book, because it is an amazing journey of thoughts and images and contemplations. There were lots of time I disagreed with Kundera, but then he would spark my own meditations on whether the body and the soul are connected, whether we live in circles or on one singular, non-recurrent path… I didn’t realise how completely I misunderstood the word ‘kitsch’ until I read this either. What an amazing book.
Thank you again, and If On A Winter’s Night a Traveller is now high on my list of books to find.
Stacey
Arlington
My pleasure! I love it when I recommend books to people and they actually read them and like them. Makes me smile. I’m glad to hear you liked Kundera. :-)
I just bought Kundera’s Book of Laughter and Forgetting; a few people have told me they enjoyed that book even more than ULB. I’ll let you know how it is, whenever I eventually get around to it (who knows when that might be…?).
When you finish If on a winter’s night a traveler, go for Calvino’s Invisible Cities next. I haven’t gotten around to writing an entry about that one yet, but reading it is like aerobics for your imagination. I loved it. Quick read, too.