LH’s Reviews > The Magic Mountain > Status Update

This is not a fun book. This is an interesting book, full of riddles, secrets, talks of mortality, anatomy, really gross stuff about your body, multiple diseases. All of that stuff you tend not to think about or like to think about. In a way I think this book is the ultimate Gothic Grotesque.

I only picked it back up because of this charming YouTube series by this wonderful German polyglot, who unravels each chapter apart, and teaches you how to traverse this book. That man made this reading interesting. I have to go and thank him. For instance, I didn't realize the obsession with the number 7 until I watched some of his videos, and now I see it everywhere. And I can appreciate that. The same thing goes for the passivity in Hans Castorp and the military behavior in Joachim. Also I learned how to pronounce Joachim. It's Hoachim. Gosh I love YouTube and bless that man for creating such a fine and interesting series to help novice philosophy readers such as my dumb ol self