15. Juli 2004, 20:27

Okay, I have finished another book at last. I've read the first half of it before the Euro 2004 has begun and so, I have read the second half of it the last two nights. I really wanted to finish it now.

Oh, I forgot - the title of the book : "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera ("Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins", "Невыносимая легкость бытия").

Well, after over a months not having read it I, unfortunately, had forgotten much of the content. And, actually, I thought the book wasn't as bad - but now, I see this differently. I have suffered to read especially the second half.

Some parts I liked to read, especially when it came to the relationship between the main persons, Teresa and Tomas. Their doubts and concerns in their real true love, although he had a lot of affairs with other women.

But my difficilties already began, when I needed over ten attempts to read the first page of the book and to understand. And it went on like this. Always had to read several paragraphs or sentences many times before I have understood them. He wrote some pages about the meaning in life of shit! Oh my god! And so there were a lot of other philosophical excurses of the author's view to the world. Hard to follow, hard to understand (for a normal intelligent human being like me).

I don't like authors (and their books), who always have to show the reader how intelligent they are. I don't like to read a book, which I have to have studied Philosophy or Ancient Greek Mythology for.

But there is a pro, too: I really like the title of this novel.