Book · 1909 · Fiction
Buddenbrooks
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It's such a beautiful book to get lost in.
What they say about it
- Compared to The Magic Mountain“more linear novel than The Magic Mountain”2
The best things said about it
One of my favorite novels that i read actually when i was in graduate school is thomas mons button brooks.
Buddenbrooks is a more linear novel than The Magic Mountain.
I prefer Buddenbrooks to Magic Mountain.
I reread buen Brooks because by Thomas man because he wrote that book hauntingly at the age of 25.
Thomas man buen Brooks what we gave a negative review to buen Brooks.
Where and when it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
4 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann is a sweeping historical novel that chronicles the decline of a prosperous merchant family across four generations in northern Germany. On The Book Review podcast in July 2024, contributor Raman Alam shared that the title was the best book he had ever read on vacation, calling it a nerdy yet beautiful text to get lost in. Similarly, Jeremi Suri mentioned on the Lex Fridman Podcast in April 2021 that Thomas Mann's work was one of his favorite novels from his time in graduate school. Discussing its structure on Conversations with Tyler in December 2025, Dan Wang noted that Buddenbrooks is a more linear narrative than The Magic Mountain and expressed a personal preference for the former. Panelist Tina Jordan also discussed rereading Thomas Mann's novel on The Book Review podcast, remarking on the haunting realization that the author wrote such a masterwork at the remarkably young age of twenty-five. However, Jordan and Pamela Paul also noted on the same podcast that the New York Times Book Review had originally given Buddenbrooks a negative review when it was first published, highlighting its complex critical history.
Every mention
Jeremi Suri one of my favorite novels that i read actually when i was in graduate school is thomas mons button brooks 1
“one of my favorite novels that i read actually when i was in graduate school is thomas mons button brooks”
Rumaan Alam I mean the best book I ever read on vacation was B and Brooks by Thomas M which is like such a nerdy but it… 1
“I mean the best book I ever read on vacation was B and Brooks by Thomas M which is like such a nerdy but it's such a beautiful book to get lost in”
Dan Wang That Buddenbrooks is a more linear novel than The Magic Mountain. 2
“I prefer Buddenbrooks to Magic Mountain.”
“That Buddenbrooks is a more linear novel than The Magic Mountain.”
Tina Jordan I reread buen Brooks because by Thomas man because he wrote that book hauntingly at the age of 25 2
“Thomas man buen Brooks what we gave a negative review to buen Brooks”
“I reread buen Brooks because by Thomas man because he wrote that book hauntingly at the age of 25”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“it is listeners to that episode will know the life or a novel based on the life of the German writer Thomas man who won the Nobel Prize and wrote The Magic Mountain and bden Brooks and Death in Venice”