Doctor Faustus

Kathy Miller
Nov 21, 2024
1 min read

Thomas Mann, 1947

Date read: DID NOT FINISH

I made it about halfway and to be completely honest, I've fallen asleep multiple times trying to read this novel. It is so incredibly boring that I can't force my eyes to stay open. It is just pages and pages of musical and psychosocial gobbledygook. It reminded me of the pages-long political speeches in Anna Karenina. But at least that had action between the speeches. This novel doesn't.

Recent Posts

See All

Dune

Frank Herbert, 1965 Date read: 3/18/26 I liked this just a hair away from The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, which is my favorite novel. I immediately went on Thriftbooks and bought

Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi, 1975 (published in English in 1983) Date read: 3/10/26 This is a fictionalized version of a true story related to the author by a death row inmate. I do not know much about life in E

The Secret Agent

Joseph Conrad, 1907 Date read: 2/28/26 First of all, as a teacher of English as a second language, I am beyond impressed with Conrad. I believe English was his third language, at least his second, and

Doctor Faustus

Recent Posts

Comments

Subscribe Form