Recent Book

I just found a book that I read and accidentally never returned to the library. It was pretty interesting. While I was in Germany, I lived in a small town called Wetzlar. Wetzlar's claim to fame comes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany's most famous author of all time. He moved there when he was just older than me in 1774, and started writing this book, called The Sorrows of Young Werther. It was partially based on events in the town and tells the story of this guy Werther who falls in love with a girl, Lotte. But alas, Lotte is engaged to Albert. It follows his suffering until he finally kills himself. The book propelled Goethe to stardom and was even translated into tons of different languages. Something that has made the book even more famous is that many young people read the book and then killed themselves in a similar fashion. Some estimate the number as high as 2,000. Considering that I'd lived there and even visited some of the sites from the book, I figured I ought to read it sometimes. I thought I'd wait around until I found it in German, but when I stumbled across it in the library the other day, I figured that then was as good a time as any, even though it was in English. I was pretty impressed, especially when I thought that the guy who wrote it was pretty much my same age. It was very well written, and the best part is, I got though it and I'm still alive!