I read The Unbearable Lightness of Being with a buddy in my online book club, The Reading Cove.
I wish I could say I enjoyed it more, but I found it to be very pretentious and overindulgent. The narrative felt like it had Tourette's syndrome, the characters were flat and disengaging. The author seems to be exploring the ideas of desire, infidelity, passion, love, lust and neediness, but these themes are draped around characters I could not have cared less about.
After the first half, I found none of the relationships even remotely interesting and the book became a chore to read. Not even the 1960s European setting and political backdrop could save it. I only finished because it was a buddy read. I'm still yawning.
I wish I could say I enjoyed it more, but I found it to be very pretentious and overindulgent. The narrative felt like it had Tourette's syndrome, the characters were flat and disengaging. The author seems to be exploring the ideas of desire, infidelity, passion, love, lust and neediness, but these themes are draped around characters I could not have cared less about.
After the first half, I found none of the relationships even remotely interesting and the book became a chore to read. Not even the 1960s European setting and political backdrop could save it. I only finished because it was a buddy read. I'm still yawning.
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