Agreed - definitely not sun surfer's fault.
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If you're worried about getting started late, I have a feeling with such a long work that this will be a long conversation, such as Conquest of the Incas and Middlemarch were.
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That's what I was thinking. I might be able to track down a copy and given I had some books to read beforehand anyway, it gives me time to come up with something.
I certainly didn't vote for this book because I didn't want to read it. Thomas Mann is on "the list" for me. It's just a shame he's still expensive after all these years.
My other issue was that I failed to check how big the book was. My only exposure to Mann was through
Death in Venice and I also own
Tristan and
Tonio Kröger. Apparently my misfiring synapses had delivered the message that
Buddenbrooks would be of a smaller size. I mean it follows doesn't it? If an author writes a couple of smaller size stories, he couldn't possibly write a bigger novel.
Anyway - the hunt begins.