Getting Going on Goethe

[ex_pseudonymous328]

Has anybody else gotten started yet?  What are your initial impressions of the book?  Feel free to judge the book by its cover. I began yesterday and I have read about 15 pages.  This novel is in epistolary form, an absolute favorite of mine.  It makes the novel so personal, as if Werther is writing to you.  I already found a great little quote in the introduction:

"...let this little book be your friend, if through fate or your own fault you can find no closer one."

Comments

[leighton]

I just started reading (up to May 13 and taking it in just a little bit at a time) and overall my dominant impression is that it's awfully ... cheerful for what I expected of Drang and Sturm. All brightness and rainbows and Wordsworthian daffodils. I can definitely see the connection to the Romantic movement.