Mary,
You know I adore you from afar. But The Magic Mountain is great! I had a decade-long argument with a Hungarian friend, a lover of the book, who insisted that the book is not at all comical. The "half-lung club," the bread-pill flicking patients in the sanatorium dining room. Not comical? Do not reattempt however. This is the real beauty of literature, the divergence of opinions it can inspire.
Perhaps a more interesting question than what we haven't read would be the canonical books we've read, in whole or partly, and hated.
Best,
Slipp
[This message has been edited by Mike Slippkauskas (edited July 29, 2008).]
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