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... and rereading and while I would read Book of Laughter first, you cannot go wrong either way, or even beginning with The Joke. I have recently been digesting The Curtain which has filled me with admiration for his critical thinking. From Publishers Weekly: It's not often that a work ... The first book by Kundera I read, a very long time ago, was The Joke, which I liked so much that I eventually read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, just as good. So, in my opinion, you cannot go wrong with either one. My favourite Kundera was The Joke which was his first one, I think. Everything else I've managed to forget.
I'm finished Native Son now which also completes my Set It Yourself challenge for July-Sept: yay! It was a pretty gripping read - claustrophobic at times, and I certainly felt ripples ... I just started Everyman (Roth) and The Joke (Kundera). Still working on Kristin Lavransdatter, The Discovery of France, Ad Infinitum, The Mysterious Flame, and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Abandoned The Sea Kingdoms -- too much anecdote and speculation, not enough history.
... Forse, oltre a L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere potresti aggiungere anche Lo scherzo. Non definirei Kundera pesante, ma piuttosto insolito. Vale la pen di provare, non credi Elisabetta? ... - Murakami
Kleinzeit - Russell Hoban
Collected Fiction - Louis Zukofsky
The Dialogue of the Dogs - Cervantes
The Joke - Kundera
De Rerum Natura - Lucretius (Rouse prose translation, Loeb Classics)
The War of the End of the World - Vargas Llosa
A Hero of Our Time - Lermonto ... Time to bump to J.
Not that many books in the list start with J, and I have only read three of them: Jane Eyre, The Joke, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Jane Eyre is my favorite of the three. The characters are a tad strange and act bizarrely at times, but the story is a ... The Joke, by Milan Kundera. I gave it four stars; I read it at the recommendation of a friend who loved it, but there was something missing for me. Still, an excellent book. gmf - the joke is the next one i'd reccommend
... (The Castle, I think), before Kundera. I have The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and the definitive version of The Joke is coming. (After which: Vaclav Havel and more Bohumil Hrabal. I Served the King of England comes last because Amazon is making me wait 4 - 6 weeks for ...
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