The Magic Mountain = shit

If you're not memeing (probably are), you should start with a lot easier works, like borderline YA, then start with the greeks, and then in 26 years when you accoplish that return to this thread.

>>8945490
>>no magic
>>too many fucking mountains
And let's not talk about the awful worldbuilding!

>>8945670
So YA comes before the Greeks now? I think this should be more widespread, because with all the talk about starting with the Greeks, someone may miss this thread and start at the wrong place.

>>8945490
If you don't know much about the political troubles of 19th century Italy, Settembrini probably doesn't make much sense. Luckily for me, I had just read Gramsci's Prison Notebooks before I started Magic Mountain, so I caught a lot of his references that would have been fresh on the mind of the reader in the age it was written in.

>>8946896
thank you for the recommendation

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>tfw taking a class on this with david wellbery right now and it's like i'm going through the spooky tunnel at the end of 2001 a space odyssey
>tfw he holds up every chapter to the light like a prism and a rainbow of 500 different things you didn't see blasts you in the face
>tfw this book is the greatest thing ever written
>tfw mann is a genius beyond comprehension

>>8946896
bullshit every European with a pint of knowledge of history knows what he's talking about.

>>8947155
fuck that sounds so nice anon

>>8947155
Would you care to share some insights, o wise anon?