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Anonymous Sun Feb 19 18:15:15 2012 No.2417932 [Reply] [Original]

So who else has read this one?

Thoughts?

For madmen ONLY!

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 18:54:14 2012 No.2418058 about halfway though. All I can say so far is well written and my kind of read. Introspection of borderline madness. Beautiful

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 19:07:16 2012 No.2418107 >>2418058 This probably sounds like a cliche, but it feels like Hesse has been spying on my brain. Kind of a heavy read, i think you'll agree. But totally worth going through.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 19:12:17 2012 No.2418130 read it a while ago. pretty good.

satan !!1Fa7LzeI6u8 Sun Feb 19 19:20:16 2012 No.2418153 [DELETED]

>>2418058

>Introspection of borderline madness

only by the standards of the bourgeois, but those are just products of bad faith and fear. Harry must acknowledge the duality in him, and by doing this, he is revealing a type of honesty which dwarfs anything around him, one that would label the bourgeois rather than the steppenwolf as insane.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 19:25:17 2012 No.2418175 >>2417932 what an awesome cover. never seen that one before. do want.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 19:31:16 2012 No.2418186 good part --> he clearly loves the idea of duality and yet destroys the notion that it exists purely. We are all made up many personalities.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 19:33:16 2012 No.2418191 I loved it. Great book. Not much else to offer really, glad you're reading it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 19:35:16 2012 No.2418197 >>2418058 You really think it's borderline madness? I thought he was confronting a reality that most of us choose to ignore i.e. the lack of a centred, core self.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 19:44:16 2012 No.2418218 >>2418197 No, I don't think he is crazy. Crazy as a social construct? Probably, but that is a low bar to set. I actually enjoy his perspective. Its fairly close to my own in a lot of respects.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 20:15:17 2012 No.2418271 I read half of it and got bored does it get better in the other half? I "got" the main character and respected his aloofness and appreciated his insights, balbalbalablabla...but was pretty bored regardless

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 22:30:19 2012 No.2418627 My copies of this and Siddhartha just came in the mail. Im going to read them when i finish Island. To anyone who has read them both, which would be better to start with, if any?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 23:16:19 2012 No.2418742 >>2418627 I loved Siddhartha while Steppenwolf made me gag with the lol-lonewolf worshipping so hard I quit 10 pages in. But I dunno, maybe it gets better later on.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 19 23:20:19 2012 No.2418757 >>2418742 >liked siddharta >thought steppenwolf was about 'lonewolf worshipping' why is it that everyone who likes siddharta is always this retarded?

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