Has anybody read The Unbearable Lightness of Being?

[LightandAiry]

Hi, I read this 30 years ago; I went to Prague and read Anna Karenina after it as I found the book strange, unusual and intriguing.

It looks like I've killed my book club this month.....! They couldn't get into the book and looks like it won't happen. I feel a bit sheepish.

Thanks for replies. Four of us turned up at book club, only 2 of us read it (for me 2nd read); other person is in his 30s and said it work better with Stephen Fry reading it, with all the digressions and intellectual musings.

I don't know why the objectification of women didn't annoy me so much back in the day. The attitude of how dare women with less than perfect bodies show them. The fantasy of the Tomas character being able to have sex with many women.

Does anyone remember the sequence of Tereza walking up Petrin Hill to some men with guns (silencers on them) and being asked if it's her choice if she wants to die? I interpret this somehow as an explanation of addiction (I think Kundera describes the womanising Tomas as being addicted to sex with many women).

Parts of the book are beautifully written and it could have been a novel about the occupation of Czechoslovakia as it was then without the author's lectures on the meaning of life.