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Review: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Nutzerbericht - Andi - Goodreads

i had to read this for class and was surprised by how much i enjoyed it, esp for a fairly run-of-the-mill "repressed rich ppl coming to terms with the emptiness of their lives" story. enjoyable in an ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

Review: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Nutzerbericht - Michael - Goodreads

Maybe I was hoping it would be more modernist in style or have something more to say about German society, but I was disappointed. I didn't realize the degree to which enjoying the book would be a ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

Review: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Nutzerbericht - Jonfaith - Goodreads

Apparently this was Faulkner's favorite novel from Mann. Aspects of it likely permeated his epic of the Compson family. Coincidentally I read this one while my wife's sister was staying with us over ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

Review: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Nutzerbericht - Laura - Goodreads

From BBC Radio 4: A 19th-century German merchant family fight to keep their supremacy. According to Judith Adams, this book was banned and burned by Hitler and it was published when the author was 25 ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

Review: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Nutzerbericht - Maria Thermann - Goodreads

Naturally I read this in the German language edition and, naturally, it has to be one of my favourite books, since it describes the rise and fall of a family dynasty from Luebeck, my own hometown and ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

Review: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Nutzerbericht - Christian Clarke - Goodreads

This book is really long. The version I read is 604 pages. It's nearly inconceivable to me that I once had the mental stamina to read 604 pages. Of literature, no less. I'm also impressed that Thomas ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

Review: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Nutzerbericht - Bettie - Goodreads

"An enormous brick-red, boiled ham appeared, strewn with crumbs and served with a sour brown onion sauce, and so many vegetables that the company could have satisfied their appetites from that one ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

Review: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Nutzerbericht - Justin Evans - Goodreads

Not much to say- it is that good. The fact that Mann went on to write Magic Mountain and Dr Faustus, among others, is staggering. Here he created a range of characters, generally unsympathetic, and as ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

Review: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Nutzerbericht - Goodreads

Re-read my old Penguin translation (HTLowe-Porter) for the first time since 1990. Tremendous description of the slow but inevitable decline of a merchant dynasty in Lubeck over the course of the 19th ...