Death in Venice

If you're looking for good technical writing, this book is for you. That's it for me. I suppose I also understand and appreciate what the novel is doing, but I just couldn't get into it. It lacked a charm that allowed me to value the story of an old man in love with a 14 year old boy from a distance. The concept is romanized (literally), it gets weird, it feels weird. The writing becomes an inadequate redeeming quality. Nonetheless, I would be open to reading something by Thomas Mann again; while I did not like this book, I can understand why it seen as significant.