false <![CDATA[The Magic Mountain]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171125430m/88077.jpg 88077 63 In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death. 647489 book 11 1924 Der Zauberberg total:2122|5:949|4:658|3:342|2:113|1:60| 2122 8689 3846 269 5 8 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 29 12:54:07 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 12:56:36 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 6 false true Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sun May 04 04:11:23 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 05:03:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 5 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Mon Oct 01 09:12:08 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 09:16:50 -0700 2007
This book was horrific. There was no point, no enjoyment, no anything save for a harrowing description, 900 pages in len...more...]]> 0 3 false false Mon Dec 03 10:14:22 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 10:09:28 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false false Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 27 13:01:30 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 30 21:09:20 -0700 2008 Moby-Dick wraps an epic seafaring adventure around a digressive, encyclopedic treatise on whales. Mann's achievement might be more important, however, for attempting a complete psychological, historical, philosophical, aesthetic, religious, biological, mystic...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 01 08:36:37 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 21 03:09:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 09 04:12:54 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 03:34:31 -0800 2008
FAVOURITE QUOTE: “What then was life? It was warmth, the warmth generated by a fo...more...]]> 5 4 true false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 15 15:29:27 -0700 2007 Sun Mar 01 21:07:05 -0800 2009 2 more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 14:11:43 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 22:46:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Mar 01 06:42:11 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 05:23:48 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 06:42:11 -0800 2009
There are so many points during the narrative where the characters are discussing the nature of time, existence, etc. After awhile it's hard to read another monologue about humanistic theory, and the...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Sat Jun 28 21:36:24 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 21:56:45 -0700 2008
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Mostly, it's about a tuberculosis hospital on t...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue May 26 19:05:28 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 19:19:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 07 08:32:59 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 07:11:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 11:29:45 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 17:17:50 -0700 2009
But there’s another story. A few, quite a few years back, I worked with an elderly Swiss gentleman, very dour and ascetic, whom I always overheard praising the strength of th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Fri Dec 26 11:43:56 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 11:52:55 -0800 2008 Wasteland, Ulysses, Magic Mountain trifecta, and appreciated it least of those three, but it's worn the years well and I like it more each time I've read it (about once per lustrum). That having been said, it's still a grander epic than most everything you'll pick up; I want ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 09 07:46:43 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 11:17:18 -0700 2009
I love this novel for the worst reason - when I read it I related completely with the main character. Everything came together to create this lovely world of natural b...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=88077