/lit/ - Literature

>>14903774
Fantastic book. Castorp's musings on time, how boredom and monotony stretch the hour into infinity, but at the same turn the year, the decade, into nothing really did a number on me.

>>14903784
I agree. I found my enjoyment of it has only increased as I've gotten older. It's one of the best pontifications on time that I've ever read. Really captures the feel of the years slowly slipping away, while still trapped in the dullness and slowness of the everyday.

>>14903774
Very different in "feeling" for lack of a better word that anything else I've read. And except for a select few chapters it's not exactly as "comfy" as people on /lit/ make because you really sense there's something wrong from the moment Hans gets off the train and the mounting sense of unease just builds throughout the book until the decidedly uncomfy scenes that everyone can agree on are not comfy happen

>>14904803
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>>14903784
should i pick it back up if i didnt like the first 150 or so pages? i was at the part where the bro is explaining the "half lung" club where the girl whistles through her fucked lung. i get this problem with some old books that they just feel too irrelevant and started reading underworld by delillo instead. what do you think

>>14903774
Might be my favorite book I've ever read. Solemn as it is funny as it is life affirming as it is mysterious.
>>14904821
It took me a while to get through it but was totally worth it. Read it when you feel like reading it, don't force it. Maybe read some of his short stories and novellas if you haven't, those are great too and what got me to read Zauberberg/Magic Mountain in the first place.

>>14904821
While it would be thematically appropriate to have the book feel like a chore, if you didn't like it 150 pages in you won't enjoy the rest.

Probably the most comfy book of all time.

>>14904845
I was thinking of starting with Buddenbrooks, but any short story collection in particular you'd recommend?

>>14905028
do the death in venice and others collection

>>14905035
I've heard the Lowe-Porter translations aren't very good, so I'll go with David Luke who translated the Faust I actually read from beginning to end. Would you still recommend starting with MM before BB, or rather going chronologically?

>>14905390
Get the Everyman’s Library edition translated by John E Woods.

>>14903774
man, imagine living back when you could simp so hard you get down on your knees and beg for pussy and it works.