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Well, that was rather depressing. I also think Goethe is a bit too philosophical for me to truly enjoy. I appreciated this story of love gone wrong, but I can‘t say I enjoyed it. Additionally, the narrator read clearly but also had the perfect voice to put me to sleep, so I headed out for a walk to finish it.

📷: Here‘s a picture of a very happy beagle to go with the unhappy ending to Werther‘s story.

#1001books #audiobook #translated #audiowalk

Goethe wrote this tragedy of extreme infatuation in 1774 to deal with his own experience of unrequited love.

Ningún lugar es malo para comenzar a leer 😊

"los seres humanos sentirían menos sus trastornos de no ocupar su imaginación con tanta frecuencia y con tal de minuciosidad en recordar los males pasados, en vez de hacer soportable lo presente"

He escuchado muy poco sobre este libro, aunque que es muy interesante saber que desató un gran escándalo en la época en el que fue escrito.
Me da mucha curiosidad de leerlo!!!!!☺️☺️

#NovelNovember @Andrew65

Overall a “Pick”. I really could relate to Werther and his sadness and his despair – even though, here comes a little contradiction, I sometimes thought it‘s laid on thick (that farmers guy and the one who once was in love with Lotte).

I‘m not sure if Werther is narcissistic as some people say – but, you know, his manipulative way with the letters he writes Lotte in the end … Fine art, Johann Wolfgang, fine art‼️👏🏼

@Jari-chan I see what you mean by feelings building up slowly … I continued listening during my Sunday breakfast. And I still like it. I was surprised by the witty things Werther utters in his conversation with Albert about his rifles. I never expected Goethe to have such sensitive thoughts – although … Werther holding one of the unloaded rifles to his head is laid on thickly, isn‘t it❓
Just because of the end. You know❓ #NovelNovember

#30daysofgratitude by @jb72

Prompt: Take a moment to say or do something nice for someone today.

🎈 Thank you, LITTENS, you‘re great. You helped me through the day because I wanted to stay away from starting a new book. And listening to audiobooks isn‘t suitable for every situation during the day. 🎈

Gratitude
• Sleeping in
• Doing stuff at my _own_pace_
• Practicing self care 🧡
• Cozy lighting

#NovelNovember

You remember what I just posted about finding ballads and things like Schiller, Goethe, Kafka, Shakespeare on Apple Music❓

Here‘s another one, and I will listen to it while preparing lunch. My bestie had to read it back in high school and said, all this suffering was soooo awful.

So let me give it a try to see how awful it turns out to be. 😁

#QuotsyApr20 Passion

Out of the 5hrs plus so far (halfway through Day 2 #24B4Extend) 3 hours on this emotional journey - Book 1 ✅
von Goethe's eloquent prose kept me glued to this journal of doomed passion.
I also read the ebook, by different translator under Modern Library Classics. While it was simplified, I preferred the older translation.
#ReadingEurope2020 Germany

I should stay away from Twitter and nap/sleep LESS! lol

#24B4Extend
End of Day 1 Tues noon now
(meant to update at midnight but it was only 2hrs clocked and I fell asleep 😬🤣😏)

- 60% of tagged book
The goal is to complete it today

- Listening to couple other audiobooks while at chores

#KeepLitsyPositive #24B4Extend #currentlyReading

May we continue to have strength to see through these troubled times

Yes, Werther comes across very silly in the 21st century and it‘s all immensely melodramatic - he‘s not someone I‘d want to go for a drink with. But with that caveat in place, I adored this book. I have such a weakness for wild intense romanticism and this book IS romanticism. I just vanished into all the huge emotions and the massive rapturous landscapes and deep despair.

Big TW for romanticising suicide - I do recommend the book but be aware

I read this in high school but wanted to revisit it after I started listening to a biography of Goethe. I think I like it better now. Maybe it‘s Stanley Corngold‘s translation, but Goethe‘s writing is really lush here. Of course, the story is particularly gloomy. That was one reason I struggled to finish rereading it. On the one hand, Goethe‘s prose is stunning and I didn‘t want it to end. On the other, Werther is dark AF. 🌚

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Young Werther is an old bore.

Yet another book on my ever-increasing #tbr list! #Sorrow for #SisforSeptember @CaliforniaCay

“Content and peace of mind are valuable things:
I could wish, my dear friend,
that these precious jewels were less transitory.”
#Goethe #thesorrowsofyoungwerther #quote

I liked this book, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, my review on Goodreads!

'The sorrows of young Werther' by Goethe, in a pretty edition of 1926. It is wonderful what can be found when one sorts his bookshelves...!
#thesorrowsofyoungwerther #goethe

#OldCoolBooks #Epistolary @Linsy

I gotta say I did not like that at all. I was expecting grander from Goethe. Werther is so melodramatic.

Most people toil during the greater part of their lives in order to live, and the slender span of free time that remains worries them so much that they try by every means to get rid of it. O Destiny of Man!

The first book 📚 I‘ve read by Goethe. Book had some great moments of prose and wit. A love unrequited story, though I hate using that word. I don‘t know why writers from this time all rather die then love someone who would be happy with them. I would say, she did return the feelings if we are being honest with ourself. In this edition, he says in retrospect, that fist love is the only true love. All love after is transient. I feel this maybe true

The lyrics of Nirvana‘s #Lithium are so sad and probably a forebode of Kurt Cobain‘s suicide. This made me think of the tagged book. #Rocktober

🎶 I'm so lonely but that's okay
I shaved my head
And I'm not sad
And just maybe I'm to blame for all I've heard
But I'm not sure
I'm so excited, I can't wait to meet you there
But I don't care
I'm so horny but that's okay
My will is good 🎶

Can't remember if this was a #freebie or just really cheap, but it will work for #riotgrams @bookriot

The centuries of time since this book's completion are very apparent, and will require some latitude from the reader. The novel is very much a part of the Romantic movement, and readily bears its pros and cons. Werther is a charming and sensitive soul, but being unable to control his passions they lead to his ruin. Goethe is trying to teach us the limits of Romanticism, and how we could use more realism and wisdom in our views on life and love.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

This book was mentioned in another book that I'm reading right now, so I've decided to give #SerialReader a go. Did you know that this book, published in 1774, contributed to a bunch of copycat suicides by young men of the time?! 😮 @SerialReader

I haven't seem to have read a lot of of #DebutNovels but this one surely counts, even if a few centuries have passed since its first publication. #booktober

#Booktober Text-only Cover: It was very hard to find this one, and it's in Spanish but it does the trick 😊

Wow. "Sensitive exploration of the mind of a young artist at odds with society and ill-equipped to cope with life" as per the Goodreads description? Or "Stalker who defends a man who murders a rival for a woman's affection, and who considers murdering the husband of the woman he himself has fallen in love with." I have no respect for this sort of man, and cannot appreciate a story casting him in a sympathetic light. #1001books read number 161.

Just one more section in my current Serial Reader book (and this book has been such a struggle!). But then today I got this!

Werther is a creepy stalker. I am not enjoying this at all, but will finish because #1001books

Eh, it was okay--a little too melodramatic for my taste. I see why it's important, though. On the other hand, I give an A++ to Serial Reader.

Hey, random question. Could someone explain to me how to put the links to what you are currently reading in your profile? Thanks! 😊

Thanks to @bookriot for the tip on Serial Reader, a well-designed app that allows you to subscribe to daily issues of classic works of literature and tackle the books you've always meant to read a bite at a time. Now I'll finally get around to this monster of Romanticism! 😀

The birth of emo? Probably. There are some undeniably beautiful and gut wrenching passages in here, but overall it comes across much like a teen whining about unrequited love. Worth a read, but not a re-read.