Book Review: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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I don't think I'll do a very good job writing a review for a novel, so I'll say that I liked The Unbearable Lightness of Being and list some of the things I liked in particular.

- The characters are very easy to identify with, particularly Tomas and Tereza, but truly all of them.

- The book has some very interesting philosophical undertones. In a way it reminded me of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

- The writing style is easy to read (though I understand it was translated into English from the original).

Though the writing was easy to read, at the end of the book I felt that I could read it again (more slowly perhaps) and pick up on a whole new level of detail that I didn't before.

A related point: one thing I didn't like so much were the abstractions and tangents that the author would invoke from time to time. I would sometimes wind up lost and, like I said, not really feel that I had grasped the full level of detail. But in general the discussions of the abstractions are what make the book interesting.