The Joke (King Penguin)
Registered by dixxy-D of York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on 1/21/2008
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
Had this for years, and it very yellow as a result! I cant remember what it is like. I think it is clever and complex. It has been described as anti stalinist, but Kundera himself said it was a love story, but about a character condemned to triviality by a joke ...
Journal Entry 2 by dixxy-D at The Golden Lion in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, January 21, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (1/22/2008 UTC) at The Golden Lion in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom
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Taking this along to the BC meet. if nobody picks it up, I'll wild release it on way home! Hope it finds a new reader ...
Taking this along to the BC meet. if nobody picks it up, I'll wild release it on way home! Hope it finds a new reader ...
Journal Entry 3 by TheGreenMan from York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 20, 2008
(Oops - sorry I forgot to journal until now!)
Picked up as a 'leftover' from last month's York BC Meetup (dixxy-D having failed to reclaim it for wild-releasing). It looks potentially interesting, worthwhile and all that - but I'm just not quite in the mood to read something like this just at the moment, I'm afraid.
Planning to take this to the Leeds Meetup, to see if it can find a reader there... (that's better than wild-releasing, isn't it?!)
Picked up as a 'leftover' from last month's York BC Meetup (dixxy-D having failed to reclaim it for wild-releasing). It looks potentially interesting, worthwhile and all that - but I'm just not quite in the mood to read something like this just at the moment, I'm afraid.
Planning to take this to the Leeds Meetup, to see if it can find a reader there... (that's better than wild-releasing, isn't it?!)
Journal Entry 4 by TheGreenMan at Adelphi Pub in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, March 10, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (3/11/2008 UTC) at Adelphi Pub in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom
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releasing, as promised...
releasing, as promised...
Picked up at the last meetup
It's taken me quite a while to plough through this on. Not sure why, since I quite enjoyed it, but it made it a bit difficult to keep all the names in my head. Also the fact that different chapters were narrated by different characters made it difficult to keep the thread.
Journal Entry 7 by Mai-day at Adelphi Pub in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, December 8, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (12/9/2008 UTC) at Adelphi Pub in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom
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Releasing at the Leeds Bookcrossers Christmas Meetup - www.meetup.com/leedsbookcrossers
Releasing at the Leeds Bookcrossers Christmas Meetup - www.meetup.com/leedsbookcrossers
Journal Entry 8 by 
shnedwards
from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, December 10, 2008
shnedwards from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Picked up at the Leeds meetup. Not sure when I'll get round to reading it, though.
Blurb: When Ludvik sends his girlfriend Marketa a postcard - "Optimism is the opium of the people... Long live Trotsky" - she is not amused. Nor are the authorities. So Ludvik is sent to exercise his unappreciated sense of humour in a labour camp.
Blurb: When Ludvik sends his girlfriend Marketa a postcard - "Optimism is the opium of the people... Long live Trotsky" - she is not amused. Nor are the authorities. So Ludvik is sent to exercise his unappreciated sense of humour in a labour camp.
Journal Entry 9 by shnedwards at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Monday, January 9, 2012
shnedwards at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Monday, January 9, 2012
I originally picked this up because it's on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. I've read other books by Milan Kundera and haven't enjoyed them much. I find him a bit of a smartarse. A quick peek at the opening pages of this book makes me think I'm not going to change my mind. So I'm marking this as available for now.
Journal Entry 10 by shnedwards at Kings Heath - Hare and Hounds pub, High St in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, March 9, 2012
shnedwards at Kings Heath - Hare and Hounds pub, High St in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, March 9, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (3/9/2012 UTC) at Kings Heath - Hare and Hounds pub, High St in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom
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