What am I in for?

Tedious I get but I've never heard or read anyone call it shallow

Get the Everyman Edition. Prepare to fall in love with Settembrini. Stay for the Snow chapter. Naphta was a beast. One of my favorite novels -- slow to start like ascending the mountain but once you're an inpatient you'll stay for the duration.

>>9445559
Nabokov himself dubbed it topical trash.

>>9445564
Nabokov claimed to dislike a lot of great books. But who are the 'many'?

Its amazing

>>9445567
Females on goodreads.

Read it. I was happy to read it, if I had option of not reading it and reading it, definetly.

>>9445561
Swap the place of Naphta and Settembrini in that phrase :^)

>>9445543
Prepare for maximum comfort as not only the novel deals with a lot of relaxing things (in fact, relaxing is big part of the novel), but also that amazing feeling when you're reading a great book.

And then also prepare for maximum discomfort.

Also:
>>9445561
Seconded.

>>9445543

>tedious

Guaranteed you heard that from a plotpleb.

>>9445581

>Prepare for maximum comfort

This.

Read the John Woods translation. It's a major and needed update.

One of the greatest books I've ever read, I think one of the greatest books of all time.

>>9445572
a.k.a. the spawn of Satan.

>>9445543
A novel about time that will take a lot of time to read, and (sort of) makes a point about it.

Also the ending of the decadent early 20th century bourgeoisie.

You might pick up an interest for Schubert.

I dropped it, the guy is way too focused on showing off his philosophical power level instead of writing a novel.

Get ready for an extremely comfy first half and heartwrenching second half

a bit off-topic, but does anyone ever have to 'force' themselves to get into a good book? i read "if on a winter's night..." and was charmed by the first sentence. trying now to read "the magic mountain" and it's enjoyable, but not as instantly captivating.

>>9447292
It won't be -- it's a journey and I sat on the fence until 2/3 of the way. The Snow chapter blew me away -- it was only at that point that it finally clicked. And the ending sealed it for me.

>>9446119
>tedious
>Guaranteed you heard that from a plotpleb.
This
>Shallow
Literally never heard this criticism

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>>9445543
I have a copy of Buddenbrooks from my recently passed great aunt but since it is from 1931 it is in Fraktur and I it is very tedious to read.
I would feel stupid going out buying a new copy simply to make it easier on myself to read a 700+ page book but then again I might not finish it if it doesn't feel right early on and then becomes infuriating to read Fraktur.

>>9447563
Was your gread aunt a nazi?

Is it true that Thomas Mann was bisexual? I still continue hoping it was made up by some Jew.

>>9449884
That's just a malicious rumour started by his jealous Jewish relatives.

>>9448451
She was a kid during the war so she propably didn't have much of a personnal opinion on nationalsozialism.