The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0060932139 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0060932139 Global Overview for this book
3 journalers for this copy...
I need to wear more hats.
Released into a box of random box for a Bookcrosser. Please enjoy!
A man that walks the line
between what makes sense
and what feels good.
between what makes sense
and what feels good.
I had picked this book up some time ago and started reading it. I'm not sure what happened but it got set aside and I forgot about it.
By the time I was going to start reading it again, I realized I no longer remembered what I had already read and had to start over! lol
It's an interesting book. I can see why it made it on the 1001 books you should read before you die list. It aspired to address the concept of living ones life with lightness or heaviness, which mostly boils down to perception.
The main male character was an irritant to me though. He spent his whole life actively and more or less openly cheating on the woman he loved and married. He knew it distressed her but that didn't stop him.
She did try to leave him but he followed her even into a closed communist country he wouldn't be able to leave again. But he didn't stop cheating. He kept going until he literally couldn't anymore. Leaving her with a lifetime of sadness she carried her whole life with him.
He had nothing but excuses that only infuriated me. The relationship was absolutely toxic.
His extraneous cheating just ruined the novel for me. What a douche bag.
By the time I was going to start reading it again, I realized I no longer remembered what I had already read and had to start over! lol
It's an interesting book. I can see why it made it on the 1001 books you should read before you die list. It aspired to address the concept of living ones life with lightness or heaviness, which mostly boils down to perception.
The main male character was an irritant to me though. He spent his whole life actively and more or less openly cheating on the woman he loved and married. He knew it distressed her but that didn't stop him.
She did try to leave him but he followed her even into a closed communist country he wouldn't be able to leave again. But he didn't stop cheating. He kept going until he literally couldn't anymore. Leaving her with a lifetime of sadness she carried her whole life with him.
He had nothing but excuses that only infuriated me. The relationship was absolutely toxic.
His extraneous cheating just ruined the novel for me. What a douche bag.
It was mailed to me through paperbackswap :)
