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After finishing the stupid semester, I needed a break and this book is such a breezy book to read that upon picking it up by chance and flipping through it, I couldn't put it down. (I read this book a long time...more...]]> 68221673 1683156 147202 3423127902 9783423127905 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172184880m/147202.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147202.Das_Buch_vom_Lachen_und_Vergessen_ 4.00 4 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant.]]> 3 0 true Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 12:49:19 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 08:27:41 -0700 2009 Against my will, I must read more short stories to finally get it - writers of short stories are depression junkies? They like to tell absurd tales of humiliation, loneliness, self-hate or self-love bordering on obscenity, egoism, blind idiocy? Really?!

At many po...more...]]> 74486512 1652948 240976 0060932147 9780060932145 302 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039930m/240976.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240976.The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting 4.02 5919 The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.]]> 3 1 false Wed Oct 14 05:50:44 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 05:53:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 66017575 348427 240976 0060932147 9780060932145 302 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039930m/240976.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240976.The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting 4.02 5919 The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.]]> 4 0 false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:33:22 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:59:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 41750006 1844827 240976 0060932147 9780060932145 302 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039930m/240976.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240976.The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting 4.02 5919 The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.]]> 5 0 false Sat Jan 03 14:26:56 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 15:36:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 45393363 1995861 240976 0060932147 9780060932145 302 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039930m/240976.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240976.The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting 4.02 5919 The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.]]> 1 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 15:38:41 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 17:14:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 56484605 2327599 26115 0571203876 9780571203871 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1212858324m/26115.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26115.The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting 3.85 410 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In this polymorphous work -- now a novel, now autobiography, now a philosophical treatise -- Kundera discusses life, music, sex, philosophy, literature and politics in ways that are rarely politically correct, never classifiable but always original, entertaining and definitely brilliant.]]> 5 1 false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 09:36:11 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 11:38:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 43605008 1665451 240976 0060932147 9780060932145 302 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039930m/240976.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240976.The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting 4.02 5919 The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.]]> 3 0 false Mon Jan 19 12:55:21 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 08:08:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 60369179 1527994 240976 0060932147 9780060932145 302 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039930m/240976.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240976.The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting 4.02 5919 The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.]]> 4 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 20:04:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 20:09:10 -0700 2009 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is a collection of unrelated short-stories, yet there is a common motif in all of them. (IE love, laughter, forgetting...)

It took me a while to get through the first story, which probab...more...]]> 58721063 2343704 240976 0060932147 9780060932145 302 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173039930m/240976.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240976.The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting 4.02 5919 The Book of Laughter and Forgettingis the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.]]> 4 1 false Sat Jul 11 17:12:16 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 00:12:44 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 17:12:16 -0700 2009
Reading this book, it may begin to feel that the stori...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=26115