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geniusscientist 's review for:
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
Whenever someone was just *explaining* something about the The Court, I was bored to tears. But everything else was a crazy Terry Gilliam movie, and I really dug it.
I wish he had lived to finish it. The chapters read like vignettes, with no transition between them; I'll have to read some more Kafka to figure out whether that's how he wanted it to be (it certainly added to the surreality) or if he just . . . wasn't finished.
As always, narrator George Guidall was phenomenal (and played a part in me choosing this audiobook to begin with). His German ain't half bad, either -- I listened to the Translator's Note at the end, which was very interesting, as well as the fragments from the novel, which were also somewhat illuminating.
I wish he had lived to finish it. The chapters read like vignettes, with no transition between them; I'll have to read some more Kafka to figure out whether that's how he wanted it to be (it certainly added to the surreality) or if he just . . . wasn't finished.
As always, narrator George Guidall was phenomenal (and played a part in me choosing this audiobook to begin with). His German ain't half bad, either -- I listened to the Translator's Note at the end, which was very interesting, as well as the fragments from the novel, which were also somewhat illuminating.