I read Immortality, by Milan Kundera last week.  Katie lent it to me, telling me it was her favorite book.  She read it while she was in Prague and it was written in Prague, which probably added to her enjoyment of it, but it was very good.  I haven't read any of Kundera's stuff before, although I had heard of some of it.  He wrote The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which Katie thought was funnier than immortality.  I didn't know that Unbearable Lightness was supposed to be funny.  That's not anything I'd ever heard about it.

Immortality is pretty funny.  It's not a comedic novel but there are a lot of very funny scenes in it. 

What impressed me the most was the author's ability to put his finger on what is wrong with the culture.  The book was copywrited in 1990 and written about European culture of the eighties but to me, it seemed like he wrote it last year about American culture of the nineties.

And it made me laugh.

 

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