The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Milan Kundera | Wonderful!

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	The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 58 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Life- Changing! Read it young!

This book totally blew my mind when I first read it, maybe more than any other book since. Kundera has a way of looking at the world that is totally unique and pretty enlightening, and although I didn't understand everything he said at the time, I feel like his sharing that view with readers is an incredible gift. None of his other books grasp it quite as completely (although several other people I've talked to also say that the first one of his they read was the best, whatever it was). Read it, read it young, and let its ideas float around in your mind forever- you'll be a more complex thinker, I guarantee it. (I'm not sure how much my guarantee means to you, but it means a lot to me)

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Wonderful!

The self proclaimed 'book' of laughter and forgetting is a wonderful tour-de-force that packs a punch concerning the concepts and ever recurring themes of life on earth. Kundera explores and questions the ideas behind laughter and the difference between laughing when things lose their meaning and laughing because of meaning. When reading this book you are sure to drown amidst the laughter of angels.

Very, very good......but not for Kundera..

I would quickly give this book five stars, but having read two other Kundera novels, this is my least favorite. It was intellectual, of course, but it wasn't as idea-oriented as the Unbearable Lightness of Being or Immortality. It had some great passages about laughter, communism, and music, but Kundera's generalizations and aphorisms weren't as convincing they are in his later works. Also, I wasn't moved by the ending.

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Complex and difficult read; good discussion

I read this for a book group. We all arrived for the meeting talking about how frustrating the read had been. We were then most pleasantly surprised that this book generated one of our best discussions in months. It's a meaty read.

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