by Thomas Mann
First of all, this is a long book with large sections of philosophising that lost me at times. However, it is also an absorbing story set in the seven years leading up to the first world war in a sanitorium in the Swiss mountains. It is funny in places and sad in others, and in others fascinating as we go through the new record collection or a seance with one of the patients being the medium. I am going to miss this hotch potch of characters from our hero Hans Castorp to Settembrini and Naphta, our two philosophers, to Behrens and all the patients who come and go but our central to the story at various times. Not the easiest of reads but really enjoyable. 9/10
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