Blog 1: Book Review of the "Magic Mountain"

       I think that this The Magic Mountain isn't a good book. The reason is because it was hard to read. Even though I didn't read a lot of it, I already found the book confusing. I don't have a good understanding of the setting, I lost track of who was who, and I understand why the main character was the place he was. The author didn't do a good job of introducing the main character. I hardly knew who he was.

    The author didn't do a good job at introducing the characters because he just started with a brief story about the main character and then just jumped into the story. For me, the main character just seemed like a faceless person. He hardly had a background story. All I knew he was alive during WWI and he was from Germany. Other than that, I knew nothing. He was driving to the Swiss Alps for whatever reason.

    Another reason why I don't like this book is because the setting is confusing. Not only did I not understand the main character, I didn't understand why he was there. Also didn't understand what was the significance of the "magic mountain" because the one of the character, Joachim, said that 6 months wasn't a lot of time for the people who lived in the area.

    

    The final reason was because he didn't introduce any of the other very well either. Apparently Joachim was Hans Castorp's (the main character) cousin. He was in Switzerland I wasn't sure if he lived there or was visiting and came much earlier than the Hans Castorp.

    The reasons why I didn't like the book was because the author didn't do a good job at introducing the main characters, he didn't mention much about the other characters, and the setting was confusing.