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1technodiabla
Starting a thread for Parts 1-3.
I really love this book so far. The detail is amazing and characters are so real and clear.
I really love this book so far. The detail is amazing and characters are so real and clear.
2billiejean
I finished Part 1 and am enjoying it so far.
--BJ
--BJ
3george1295
I agree. Having finished the first two parts, the characters are facinating. A very enjoyable read even though I have not had a really good experience with Mann. Look forward to talking more with you about the book.
4technodiabla
I am almost done with Part 5 now. These Buddenbrooks certainly to have a habit of dying very suddenly, don't they. It's interesting that I know (from the title) that things are not going to go well for them all, but I'm still cheering them on. Mann does a great job of showing how these things happen-- are inevitable even. And even though the people are not perfect, you see where they come from and how they are a product of their environments. They can't not be themselves and are therefore essentially fated to whatever happens.
5george1295
I think they die so easy because I heard that if you drink a lot of beer and eat a lot of Brats, eventually you grow very old and keel over. I'm just glad that Grulich got it up the yazoo. I really just wanted to shoot the jerk.
6Cecilturtle
I started the book this weekend in French, a translation which dates from 1965. The translator made a comment about not being able to translate all the dialects, although she sometimes alludes to speech particularities. How does the English come through? It's a particular interest of mine...
7technodiabla
>6 Cecilturtle:: Well, I just finished Part 6. I feel like I have a basic understanding of how the dialects were-- but mostly they are described rather than quoted through the dialogue. Certainly the Munich v. Hamburg/Lubeck is very clear. I think of it as Boston v. East Texas. I am reading the original English translation.