Activity | Annie | Autostraddle

Annie posted an update in the group The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 4 months ago

I’m reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Tropic of Cancer right now. And listening to Crime and Punishment on cd! I’m really liking all three, especially The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Missy replied 12 years, 4 months ago

hee hee. i totally read that as a mashup: “the unbearable lightness of the tropic of cancer.”
hedonist replied 12 years, 4 months ago

KUNDERA! been meaning to get to unbearable lightness for some time now.
Annie replied 12 years, 4 months ago

Hehe, that is a mashup I’d like to read!

I know, I put off reading it forever, thinking it would just be too pretentious, and now I’m loving it. Definitely lives up to the hype.
- hedonist replied 12 years, 4 months ago
  
  I bet! have you read Immortality and/or Identity? Amazing books. How is Tropic of Cancer? i’ve tried reading it a bunch of times but… :(
  - Annie replied 12 years, 4 months ago
    
    I haven’t read either, this is the first book by Kundera I’ve read. How are those? I’m liking Tropic of Cancer thus far, but I can see how it could be hard to get into. I’ve been reading just a few pages of it at a time, it isn’t as engrossing as some other books.
Ana replied 12 years, 4 months ago

Agh I love Unbearable Lightness of Being and Kundera in general. Have you read The Book of Laughter and Forgetting?
- Annie replied 12 years, 4 months ago
  
  I haven’t read it, but my mom keeps telling me too, so I probably will. What’s it about?
  - Ana replied 12 years, 4 months ago
    
    It’s hard to classify as one plot. It uses a lot of the same characters (Tomas, Tereza, etc).
    
    Anyway, two rolls and a bee.

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