Interesting. I knew I liked Kundera's style, but this book was different from most novels. It is a compilation of stories about fictional people and about the writer himself, all revolving around the themes laughter and forgetfulness. To me, it was a mixture of some vere very beautiful and touching chapters, and weird-in-an-I-can't-put-my-finger-on-it kind of way. Sometimes the male characters were (in varying degrees) misogynistic, which I found very annoying, and some sex scenes/ideas were too disturbing for me. I choose to focus on the good parts and say that I liked it, but I definitely did not like all of it.