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This book really does read like a Lolita written 40 years prior with Lo’s gender switched and a premature ending just befo...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 02:32:05 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 02:45:59 -0700 2009
The story begins with such attention...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 19:33:09 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 12:37:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Jun 05 06:25:30 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 06:25:56 -0700 2007 Der Tod in Venedig in the house somewhere, but frankly I couldn't face literary German at the moment), but I never really felt at ease when reading this. Not because of any of the themes that Mann ...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 08:39:25 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 08:50:05 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Mar 24 23:32:01 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 23:45:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 08:37:04 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 09:19:42 -0800 2008 Death in Venice for the first time. I can't imagine what I made of it then. Of course, the story of an older man drawn to a beautiful young boy is compelling, but the sense of time running out can't have meant much to me at that point in my life. I read the novella ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 01:11:46 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 01:32:39 -0700 2009 1



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I stayed up till 3:30 in the morning reading it. When I first read the first few pages I thought this was going to be like The Virgin Suicides (one of my favorite novels)

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Author Gustave von Aschenbach too...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 11 09:40:18 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 09:41:29 -0700 2009
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the end could only have been worse if it was a "and then i woke up" book...but it might as well have been

his love/lust toward the young boy is over dramatized to disereve that ending.

i read the spark notes for the book after i read the boo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Nov 29 13:02:19 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 13:19:19 -0800 2008 3 more...]]> 5 0 true false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 10 17:45:10 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 17:49:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 06:12:04 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 00:53:15 -0700 2009 Thomas Mann in order to determine whether Death in Venice is extremely well written, or just an a-typical production of tired and old fashioned writing. If his other works are stylistically different, this book would be a triumph, as the writing not only emphasises t...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=53064