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[Anonymous No.16934865]

>first 100 pages are just two guys walking around a sanatorium, gossiping about patients and doctors, getting some rest and having meals

Wow how interesting

[Anonymous No.16934869]

>>16934865
Filtered

[Anonymous No.16934883]

>>16934869
How can you be filtered by this? Not one intellectual thing was said apart from a couple of remarks that were not developed. It’s literally just two guys gossiping about the patients like two high school girls. And then you have Hans Castorp obviously getting sick as the day goes by which is such an obvious move (is he really sick or just imagining it? Wowowowow)

[Anonymous No.16934998]

>>16934883
Filtered

[Anonymous No.16935021]

>>16934865
>first 100 pages
You mean the whole book? You got filtered sweetie

[Anonymous No.16935036]

You read one seventh of a book, you have no right to judge it.

[Anonymous No.16935050]

>>16935036
I have the right to judge each and every page I read

[Anonymous No.16935056]

>>16935050
How those rights working out for you? The lockdowns are just getting started

[Anonymous No.16935068]

>in the novel, it is chiefly sentiments and events that are exhibited; in the drama, it is characters and deeds. The novel must go slowly forward; and the sentiments of the hero, by some means or another, must restrain the tendency of the whole to unfold itself and to conclude. The drama, on the other hand, must hasten: and the character of the hero must press forward to the end: it does not restrain, but is restrained. The novel-hero must be suffering, — at least he must not in a high degree be active: in the dramatic one, we look for activity and deeds.
t. goethe

[Anonymous No.16935086]

>>16935050
You'll get a great overview of the book like that, idiot.

[Anonymous No.16935098]

go back to harry potter with this kind of attitude

[Anonymous No.16935102]

>>16934865
May I recommend a few YA authors that I assume are more to your liking?

[Anonymous No.16935111]

>>16935102
Yahoo Answers authors?

[Anonymous No.16935117]

>>16935111
No harm in checking those out either, try it OP!

[Anonymous No.16935126]

>>16934883
filtered.

[Anonymous No.16935167]

>>16934865

I'm working on something you might like OP.

It's pretty much The Magic Mountain, except Medea is sent there after beating the shit out of someone for calling her "sir."

Coming to NETFLIX this Summer

[Anonymous No.16935281]

>>16934883
>>16935050

I think this whole thread is based on an assumption that novels are philosophical treatises, or fables. They're not, they're an art form much as music is and the artful depiction of the world is what they do, not explain abstract concepts.

[Anonymous No.16935318]

>>16935068
Is this from Wilhelm Meister?

[Anonymous No.16935329]

>>16935167
would unironically watch.

[Anonymous No.16935357]

>>16934865
Not just filtered but seething too, a delightful combination

[Anonymous No.16935468]

>>16935318
yep, vol 1 book 5 chapter 7

[Anonymous No.16935497]

>>16935281
Guess who didn't read The Magic Mountain.

[Anonymous No.16936036]

>>16934865
I loved The Magic Mountain, but if you do not like the first 100 pages you won’t like the rest. It *is* a book where “nothing” happens, but that’s actually why I loved it.

[Anonymous No.16936272]

>>16936036
That’s not really fair, most of the interesting dialogue takes place halfway into the book and imo it keeps improving. The first 150 pages or set the mood and introduce the characters

[Anonymous No.16936307]

>>16936272
He's right. I mean, the next 600 pages won't be non-stop action, but it's certainly more dynamic.

[Anonymous No.16936317]

the key aspects of the novel include the debates between settembrini and a character who hasn't been introduced yet, hans' changing attitude towards sickness and the sanitorium and his relationship between the abrupt door-slammer and her companion (introduced much later). you've really only read a prologue so far.