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Morgan
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Ok the worst part about this book is how Zweig always speaks in superlatives. He’s always saying “everyone” believed this, or things “always” happened, or “never” happened a certain way. That cannot be reality, he just had blinders on.
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Morgan
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Sometimes Zweig is saccharine, overly romantic and prone to cliches. Panama Canal, the joining of two oceans! Looking into the eyes of someone who looked into Goethe’s eyes once!
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Morgan
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Sometimes Zweig allows his nostalgia to override everything else and he gets cheesy, corny, overly romantic in a Hallmark-movie like way about how “good it was back home.” It’s not original. It’s just overwrought. The chapter about talking to an old lady who as a baby was held by Goethe is similar.
— Feb 26, 2026 07:39AM
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