Please vote for the Milan Kundera book you would like to read the during March here
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February 28th!
The aim of the Book Club is to read and discuss new books together with other members.
Please try to avoid from voting for the books you have already read and/or do not intend to (re)read with us.
Thank you!
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Immortality
Identity
Life Is Elsewhere
Ignorance
Slowness
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being is leading with 100%!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Hello, I am new to this forum and would love to get to know all of you and follow the book club. I am portuguese so my english is not that good, forgive me in advance for thatAnyway, I allready read the The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and I must say that it is his worse, its just filosofically empty. My favorite Milan Kundera novels are Ignorance and Slowness. But I think i will vote some other so I can join you in the reading of it
Other than Life is Elsewhere, which I'm currently reading, all those choices will be rereads for me and since I've been thinking I should reread The Book of Laughter and Forgetting for awhile now, that was my choice. One of my favorite Kundera books, The Joke didn't make the list, the other one I really like is Immortality even with all that odd business with Goethe and Hemmingway in heaven, I just loved Agnes, she felt like a kindred spirit to me but I just reread both of those not too long ago.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
I don't know if I'll join this month. I find Kundera boring, as boring a writer as I've ever read. But I may want to give it another try. We'll see.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
I am not sure I will be able to participate, so maybe I shouldn't have voted. I would like to read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, though.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.- Emma Goldman
I have read The Unbearable Lightness of Being some time ago, but I didn't get very far, it somehow didn't get me hooked. But I was very little back then, and maybe I can make something out of it now that I've grown by two or three years
I still hold back my vote until I can see whether I'll have the time to read along with you.
"Where mind meets matter, both should woo!"Currently reading:
* Paradise Lost by John Milton
I ve never read Kundera, but "Unbearable ..."is the only one I can get my hands on at present.
I always prized myself on being a very comfortable, and slow paced person. Serenity Now, type, supposedly. Much like the character of Dolly in the february book: "As usual, Dolly could not be hurried. It was her habit, even when it rained, to loiter along an ordinary path as though she were dallying in a garden..." 'Slowness' is said to be "brilliant, witty, and the most accessible" of His novels. I think thats my choice!
Asa
penuriosus est is quisnam denies scientia
Asa Adams
Currently reading
Ethan Frome
Portrait of an artist.....again*sigh*
Really?! That is not how I would describe that one.Originally Posted by Asa Adams
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
Well, It's a direct quote. That's all, Idril.
penuriosus est is quisnam denies scientia
Asa Adams
Currently reading
Ethan Frome
Portrait of an artist.....again*sigh*
I found Slowness to be awfully slow.Sorry.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Oh, I know, it's just interesting how different people can look at the same book in completely different ways. It always makes me wonder if I missed something.
the luminous grass of the prairie hides
feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
but weighty and unmovable
As black Dakota hills. ~ Riesa
AND HES WITTY!??!I found Slowness to be awfully slow.
Asa
penuriosus est is quisnam denies scientia
Asa Adams
Currently reading
Ethan Frome
Portrait of an artist.....again*sigh*
AN obviously landslide
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