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Not as good as his final work (Doktor Faustus), but nothing really is. Nonetheless, as an allegorical telling of the European sickness before 1914--as well as an exploration of the dark potentials of aestheticism--Magic Mountain is nothing short of amazing.

It took me a while to get used to the style of this book: it is built to be like a manuscript that is put together from the news articles and journal entries from a New York Times journalist that travels to the country of Ecotopia (northern Cali, Oregon and Washington) twenty years after it seceeded from the U.S. I enjoyed the unique techniques this author used to provoke his readers into thinking about the planet and the positive things that can be done to coinside with it.