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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
5 kisses for this book!
absolutely beautiful and profound read. not going to help with my individuality complex i fear. every single page and sentence, and character had some distinguishing place in the text and was so scrumptious.
the unbearable lightness of being discusses; monogamy, love, politics, our purpose, dreams, philosophy, art, literature, sex, music, the human condition. it truly has everything. i started reading this book and immediately knew it was a 5 from these quotes on page 2...
"in the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine... this reconcilliation [with hitler] reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the non-existence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything is cynically permitted,"
like hey, isn't it great that things can only happen once, therefore we can be as shitty/non shitty as we want because nothing matters at all.
the eternal return of the heaviest burdens das schwerste gewicht (thank u nietzsche).
annnyyywayyyy, i haven't annotated a book this heavy since mr ocean vuong himself. rip milan kundera you would have hated booktok.
i really loved this book, it has made me feel smarter knowing i've read it, and absorbed a bunch of these ideas to come back and munch on. i truly have highlighted so much of this book so there is no point in dropping all the bits i loved because at that rate you should just read it yourself (im serious, you should).
but every so often i would read a sentence about war, or politics and be impressed because this was written in the 80s and depressed because this was written in the 80s. there are bits about war that directly mention palestine/israel conflict which, reading in 2024 is like well fuck shit's been going down there for years and people knew this whole time but don't do anything still. i can't copy the whole paragraph down because it's so long but i'll highlight a little bit here.
"as the grand march goes on, the world's indifference nonwithstanding, but it is growing nervous and hectic: yesterday against the american occupation in vietnam, today against the vietnamese occupation of cambodia; yesterday for israel, today for palestinians... - and always against america; at times against massacres and at times in support of other massacres; europe marches on ... to leave none of them out, it's pace grows faster and faster, until finally the grand march is a procession of rushing, galloping people and the platform is shrinking and shrinking until one day it will be reduced to a dimensionless dot."
ok, this is by far one of my longest reviews ever but i'm going to drop three more quotes with you and then say goodbye.
"whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?"
"sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. every year it gets harder to change."
"she had left a man because she felt like leaving him. had he persecuted her? had he tried to take revenge on her? no. her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. what fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being."
roll credits mwah mwah
es muss sein.
must it be? it must be!
absolutely beautiful and profound read. not going to help with my individuality complex i fear. every single page and sentence, and character had some distinguishing place in the text and was so scrumptious.
the unbearable lightness of being discusses; monogamy, love, politics, our purpose, dreams, philosophy, art, literature, sex, music, the human condition. it truly has everything. i started reading this book and immediately knew it was a 5 from these quotes on page 2...
"in the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine... this reconcilliation [with hitler] reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the non-existence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything is cynically permitted,"
like hey, isn't it great that things can only happen once, therefore we can be as shitty/non shitty as we want because nothing matters at all.
the eternal return of the heaviest burdens das schwerste gewicht (thank u nietzsche).
annnyyywayyyy, i haven't annotated a book this heavy since mr ocean vuong himself. rip milan kundera you would have hated booktok.
i really loved this book, it has made me feel smarter knowing i've read it, and absorbed a bunch of these ideas to come back and munch on. i truly have highlighted so much of this book so there is no point in dropping all the bits i loved because at that rate you should just read it yourself (im serious, you should).
but every so often i would read a sentence about war, or politics and be impressed because this was written in the 80s and depressed because this was written in the 80s. there are bits about war that directly mention palestine/israel conflict which, reading in 2024 is like well fuck shit's been going down there for years and people knew this whole time but don't do anything still. i can't copy the whole paragraph down because it's so long but i'll highlight a little bit here.
"as the grand march goes on, the world's indifference nonwithstanding, but it is growing nervous and hectic: yesterday against the american occupation in vietnam, today against the vietnamese occupation of cambodia; yesterday for israel, today for palestinians... - and always against america; at times against massacres and at times in support of other massacres; europe marches on ... to leave none of them out, it's pace grows faster and faster, until finally the grand march is a procession of rushing, galloping people and the platform is shrinking and shrinking until one day it will be reduced to a dimensionless dot."
ok, this is by far one of my longest reviews ever but i'm going to drop three more quotes with you and then say goodbye.
"whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?"
"sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. every year it gets harder to change."
"she had left a man because she felt like leaving him. had he persecuted her? had he tried to take revenge on her? no. her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. what fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being."
roll credits mwah mwah
es muss sein.
must it be? it must be!
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Mi libro de cabecera. Respuestas existenciales durante una época oscura
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
“Il tempo umano non ruota in cerchio ma avanza veloce in linea retta. È per questo che l'uomo non può esserefelice, perché la felicità è desiderio di ripetizione”
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes