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The Magic Mountain

author: Thomas Mann (1924)
date read: 2010-04-01
pages: 706
lists: german
rating: ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Cover of The Magic Mountain.

Nothing happens. People are sick and nothing happens. Then, nothing happens some more but in unspeakably long sentences. The protagonist stays in a sanatorium for seven years without ever being really sick. There are a lot of lectures.

Cover of Waiting for Godot.

Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett · published 1952 · last read 2010-04-07
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Another book where nothing happens, but at least we're allowed to have fun.
Cover of Sophie's World.

Sophie’s World

by Jostein Gaarder · published 1991 · read 2003-11-01
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
The YA version of being trapped in a thinly disguised philosophy lecture.
Cover of Joseph and His Brothers.

Joseph and His Brothers

by Thomas Mann · published 1943 · read 2009-07-01
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
The other huge Thomas Mann book that I've read.