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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191940.The_Man_Without_Qualities_Vol_1_A_Sort_of_Introduction_and_Pseudo_Reality_Prevails?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172574290m/191940.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191940.The_Man_Without_Qualities_Vol_1_A_Sort_of_Introduction_and_Pseudo_Reality_Prevails?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16747.Robert_Musil">Robert Musil</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19636179?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 2 of 5 stars<br/>As a novel of ideas where plot is decidedly of secondary importance, the book stands or falls on the cogency and originality of those ideas. Unfortunately, like much modern Germanic philosophy, the ideas are bogged down in a miasma of overly complicated and rather incoherent verbiage. The book's redeeming quality is the quite interesting assemblage of quirky characters that emerge from the murk. <br/> <br/>Couldn't finish Vol. 2 because the ratio of incoherent philosophizing to interesting character driven story increases significantly <br/> <br/>Andy Linkner <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1047987?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>