Where to Begin

After looking at an extremely daunting list of books - many of which I obviously have yet to buy - I have decided to start with Milan Kundera's Ignorance. Milan Kundera and I have a sort of love-hate thing after reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being.... The book was hard to get through, because it is so truthfully written; the movie, couldn't make it through 45 minutes. Then it dawned on me... The book was amazingly well written. Hard books don't mean bad books. However, bad books can be hard to get through; or even deceivingly easy to get through with some kind of disappointing outcome.

I am deciding to get this big, life-long experience started with a philosopher.

Happenstance? I think not. What better time in my life than to reflect deeply on love, life, kitsch, and all things human?



Also, I secretly have an agenda with this book: to read it all in one night. It's not terribly long, so don't be too impressed. However, be impressed - it's 1am, I go to work at 10am. That leaves about 8 hours of solid reading time, and no sleep; or 4 hours of reading, 4 hours of sleep; or 2 hours of reading, 6 hours of sleep followed by reading at work (which is allowed... slightly).

So here's a little about the book:

                                                                                           

• Title: Ignorance
• Author: Milan Kundera
• Author Heritage: Franco-Czech
• Year Written: 2000
• Original Language: French

Synopsis
Irena and Josef meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty years earlier. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? The truth is that after such a long absence "their memories no longer match."

Let's find out now, shall we?