Book Meme, Day 25
Jun. 27th, 2018 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenak25. Never finished it.
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. In my defense, I was a teenager who had only just started to learn French, so the fact alone that various characters have untranslated dialogues in it for what I recall as entire pages (maybe my memory is exaggarating?) alone would have put me off. But I also thought the characters were boring, and the plot non-existent. Considering I was under no obligation to read the book, which I had found in my great aunt's library, I put it back and moved on to the next book, the next book being, as far as I know, an Hungarian novel about Liszt.
In later years, I read other texts by Thomas Mann, but I never tackled The Magic Mountain again. Sorry, Tommy. But I've always liked your older brother better anyway.
1. Favorite book from childhood
2. Best Bargain
3. One with a blue cover.
4. Least favorite book by favorite author
5. Doesn't belong to me.
6. The one I always give as a gift.
7. Forgot I owned it.
8. Have more than one copy.
9. Film or tv tie-in.
10. Reminds me of someone I love.
11. Second hand bookshop gem.
12. I pretend to have read it.
13. Makes me laugh.
14. An old favorite.
15. Favorite Fictional Father
16. Can’t believe more people haven’t read it.
17. Future classic
18. Bought on a recommendation.
19. Still can't stop talking about it.
20. Favorite Cover.
21. Summer Read
22. Out of Print.
23. Made to read at school.
24. Hooked me into reading.
26. Should have sold more copies.
27. Want to be one of the characters.
28. Bought at my fave independent bookshop.
29. The one I have reread most often.
30. Would save if my house burned down.
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. In my defense, I was a teenager who had only just started to learn French, so the fact alone that various characters have untranslated dialogues in it for what I recall as entire pages (maybe my memory is exaggarating?) alone would have put me off. But I also thought the characters were boring, and the plot non-existent. Considering I was under no obligation to read the book, which I had found in my great aunt's library, I put it back and moved on to the next book, the next book being, as far as I know, an Hungarian novel about Liszt.
In later years, I read other texts by Thomas Mann, but I never tackled The Magic Mountain again. Sorry, Tommy. But I've always liked your older brother better anyway.
1. Favorite book from childhood
2. Best Bargain
3. One with a blue cover.
4. Least favorite book by favorite author
5. Doesn't belong to me.
6. The one I always give as a gift.
7. Forgot I owned it.
8. Have more than one copy.
9. Film or tv tie-in.
10. Reminds me of someone I love.
11. Second hand bookshop gem.
12. I pretend to have read it.
13. Makes me laugh.
14. An old favorite.
15. Favorite Fictional Father
16. Can’t believe more people haven’t read it.
17. Future classic
18. Bought on a recommendation.
19. Still can't stop talking about it.
20. Favorite Cover.
21. Summer Read
22. Out of Print.
23. Made to read at school.
24. Hooked me into reading.
26. Should have sold more copies.
27. Want to be one of the characters.
28. Bought at my fave independent bookshop.
29. The one I have reread most often.
30. Would save if my house burned down.
