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18976764 No.18976764 [Reply] [Original]

had the opportunity to read Steppenwolf many years ago but didn't, finally getting start on it. did you enjoy it? what Hesse book should I read next?

>> No.18976862

>>18976764
wow a gun so cool

>> No.18976897

Steppenwolf is a beautiful book, I liked it way more than Siddhartha. That edition of it looks great btw, I want one now myself

>> No.18976936

>>18976897
yeah was contemplating asking you guys about Siddhartha. i started it ages ago and got about halfway through before dropping it. Steppenwolf seems a lot more natural and relatable.

>edition
Picador anon, affordable and beautiful. cover has a cat's eye kind of effect, and fits in a pocket obvs. smaller than a loeb.

>> No.18976941

by natural i mean it seems more authentically a reflection of the author's mind

>> No.18976943

>>18976936
>i started it ages ago and got about halfway through before dropping it
its like 100 pages man wtf is wrong with you

>> No.18976955

>>18976943
i was busy working 14 hours a day and my buddhist phase had passed years before. got bored of a nigga getting bothered about ablutions and temptations.

>> No.18976961

that is to say, it didn't feel genuine.

>> No.18977016

>>18976943
For some reason that book feels like it's just about to end for a very long time. It's short but yeah. I guess you could say it's because the Buddhist path itself is very long and complex, and there are several parts in the advanced stages where it seems like you've learned all there is to know but you're still attached to several things, and it's this act of going one step further every time it appears you're at the end of the journey that distinguishes someone who's really enlightened from someone who's not. I definitely prefer this view of enlightenment where it's incredibly hard (almost impossible) to obtain, like digging through a mountain with a spoon, over the New Age, Buddha at the Gas Pump style crap where every hippie is saying they're enlightened now because they had one revelation and their ego really wants to slot themselves into the set of the gifted. Of course there's no way 90% of those people (at minimum) are anywhere close to enlightenment. From Siddhartha it seems like Hesse really understood this. It's not a very enjoyable book despite my interest in the topic, but he does it a service.

>> No.18977051

>>18977016
good post thanks anon I'll give it another shot

>> No.18977249

>>18977016
indeed

>> No.18977410

Cringe photo. Why the gun?

>> No.18977445

>>18977410
it's a stand-in for his infinitesimal peepee