mr_batuta

I have to agree that Unberable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera) is dragging at several parts of the story.

 

AKo kasi mainipin.  Hehehe.  It failed to sustain the phase that it started with the early chapters.  It is not exactly a page turner.  It took me two days to finish the book.  Which was bad for me, considering that it's just about three hundred pages or so.

 

If it was a good book, I couldn't have put down the book.  Hehehe.  Yabang!

 

It poses the question, "What then shall we choose, burden or lightness?"

 

Although the book has merits too, undeniably.  Opening pa lang, yung Nietzsche's "myth of eternal return" nag-iisip na ako.  Hehehe.  Something that you don't do to me, make me think.  He also has references to "" the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return" .

 

It attempts to explain what adult love is (with the complexities of sex, etc) and how it could coexist wih the indidual's free will.

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i'm sure,maraming guys na makaka-relate kay tomas, isa sa lead characters. hehe. si tomas yung tipong kayang believes na love and sex are worlds apart. one could have sex without falling in love. siya rin yung taong takot sa commitment associated with sexual and romantic acts. ibinuko ni kundera yung mga kalalakihan. hehehe

i'm such a big fan of milan kundera, especially "the unbearable lightness of being". it's my fave book of all time.

gustong-gusto ko yung characters, buhay na buhay, 3-dimensional. it's nonlinear, sa gitna pa lang, alam mo na yung ending. pero the way kundera closed the story was really disturbing, in a good way, that is.

you may also want to check out chuck palahniuk (fight club, diary, etc) and haruki murakami, guys.

sa mga classic, "great expectations" by charles dickens & "madame bovary" by gustave flaubert. these two tackles the social differences and one's desire to go up the social ladder.

if you want something sociopolitical, you may try "1982" by george orwell. yep, dito kinuha yung "big brother". political siya pero hindi masakit sa ulo, madali lang i-digest. saka yung plot, punung-puno ng tension.

if you want something cool, neil gaiman's books are the best read.

kung gusto nyong sumakit ang ulo nyo, basahin nyo yung mga books ni fyodor dostoevsky saka ni ayn rand. t*ang*na, di ako tumagal sa mga books nila! whew!

manilyn reynes

akala ko ba, family name? wehehehe

just finished "diary" by chuck palahniuk. right now, i'm digesting "after the quake" by haruki murakami

la lang...