Book · 2019
The Magic Mountain
- mentions
- 5
- people
- 4
- podcasts
- 3
- episodes
- 4
- recommendations
- 0
What's your favorite novel I would still say it's Thomas mom's the Magic Mountain.
The best things said about it
That Buddenbrooks is a more linear novel than The Magic Mountain.
I'm going to get really into Magic Mountain and War in Peace, and I'm going to do the work it takes to really read those books.
So I decided to pick up the Magic Mountain and just force my way through it it's about 700 Pages um and I'm about 100 pages into it and loving it.
Where and when it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
4 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain is a monumental early twentieth-century philosophical novel that follows a young engineer named Hans Castorp during an extended, transformative stay at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. Dan Wang discussed the novel on Conversations with Tyler, comparing its narrative structure to Mann's earlier family saga Buddenbrooks and noting a personal preference for the latter's linear style. David Perell mentioned The Magic Mountain on How I Write, categorizing it alongside War and Peace as a notoriously challenging and ambitious literary work that required dedicated effort to conquer properly. John Williams shared a similar reading experience on The Book Review, recounting how he decided to force his way through the lengthy classic over the holidays and ultimately found himself thoroughly engrossed in its dense pages after the first hundred chapters. Furthermore, Brad DeLong named Mann's masterpiece as his favorite novel during a discussion with Tyler Cowen. Together, these podcast mentions highlight the enduring intimidation and ultimate reward of tackling Mann's sprawling exploration of European intellectual history, disease, time, and human philosophy prior to the outbreak of the First World War.
Every mention
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.”
Brad DeLong What's your favorite novel I would still say it's Thomas mom's the Magic Mountain 1
“What's your favorite novel I would still say it's Thomas mom's the Magic Mountain”
David Perell I'm going to get really into Magic Mountain and War in Peace, and I'm going to do the work it takes to real… 1
“I'm going to get really into Magic Mountain and War in Peace, and I'm going to do the work it takes to really read those books”
John Williams so I decided to pick up the Magic Mountain and just force my way through it it's about 700 Pages um and I'm… 1
“so I decided to pick up the Magic Mountain and just force my way through it it's about 700 Pages um and I'm about 100 pages into it and loving it”
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Other mentions (5: 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”
“so we already see that we're talking about the Magic Mountain”
“and it starts with a sentence about the Magic Mountain by Tomas”
“I at first I thought about um The Magic Mountain which I haven't read so I picked these sort of big ambitious things”
“he did the definitive magic mountain in Boonton Vaux and but he's always been translating a low Schmidt for decades”