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The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Start date: February 1, 2016

Finish date: February 29, 2016

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Mar 12, 2013 Kira rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, book-bucket-list

Meh, it was ok.
I enjoyed reading about half of it and I was pretty shocked at some points, but it's not something I'd recommend. ...more

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Sep 09, 2011 Amy Neftzger rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was a nice collection of Kafka's short stories. Some I really liked a lot and wanted to rate 5 stars and some I thought were well written but not quite as engaging for me and I wanted to give those stories 3 stars. So I averaged my rating to 4 stars.

The highlight of the book is The Metamorphosis, the (in)famous story about a man who wakes up one day to find that he has turned into a cockroach. This story is certainly worth reading as the underlying themes are still prevalent in our society ...more

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Sep 19, 2011 Grace rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, audible

Crazy idea, a man who wakes up and finds himself converted into a bug. His life and family relationship changes completely. Thanks to the good description of thoughts and situations I could picture in my mind everything written in the book. Perhaps this is what happens when someone is severely ill or different to the rest.

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