Milan Kundera

[phildow]

I don't read so much fiction, but after some great conversation with Megan (also from OK) during Saturday's 12 hour night, I borrowed an amazing book from her: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera. I was already familiar with the writer. The Unbearable Lightness of Being has been mentioned to me a couple times. But this is my

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[rebelzero]

you may also want to read Identity

[phildow]

I'm gonna go create an Amazon wishlist right now.

[madamebovary]

I highly recommend The Unbearable Lightness of Being I finished it in January and loved every bit of it!

[phildow]

Hey, you know, Madame Bovary is mentioned in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Who exactly is she?

[madamebovary]

It's a book by Flaubert. The book (from my understanding...I haven't read it yet, it's on my eventual reading list) is about a woman who is pretty independent (it's french...what do you expect) and she ends up getting married to this asshole. She reads in order to escape her life, and then i think she commits suicide. It's my lj username because of the reading to escape life bit, not the suicide bit...heh.