Bro, what do you think of Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse? I've just finished reading it recently.

haven't read it

>>21926532 (OP)

Bro, you got filtered by a 1950's high school English class novel.

Not to say it isn't a good book but...

I'm sure this is more your style:

I've just started it, how long does it take to get to the werewolf bits?

About halfway through.

"Magister Ludi : Glass Bead Game" is really his best book, imo.

Why so many here, 

why the big wigs here, 

why the Big Brains of /LIT/®! 

here!! get filtered by it 

...or merely do not like it 

...I've never understood.



I think I saw one, single-y, individual stand up for it in all the threads that I've seen Herr Hesse get mentioned in.

(Here)

(Not many, granted)



Which is sad.

:-(



It's *thick*, yes.

It's a slog! LoL~~>yes!

But worth the time and effort, imo, and it's a pleasure to imagine Waldzell as reality and partake of the master's mind.

(Hesse... cringing in his grave at that.)

Not sure if anyone agrees with this opinion but seems to me 'Glass Bead' was the culmination of his entire literary career and therefore life, right?

 

In fact, fuck finishing my hate-reading of "Call Me Burroughs" (that I was putting off &amp; dreading anyways &amp; besides, I've learned enough to despise Ginsberg, WSBs, the 'downtown scene' of NYC in the 70's, and really all of modern 'transgressive druggie author as celebrity' ...many times over)...time to revist Castalia.&lt;3

Whoopie-doo for me!

Haven't read it in a year or two and wtf maybe I'm wrong and grossly misremembering and it's really a horrible, piece-of-shit doorstopper?!

:-O Lol

I like the part where the old busted sad man turns into a Chad and starts dancing partying and banging hot young sluts brains loose

>>21926532 (OP)

I only got like 70 or 80 pages in. It's not that I disliked it, but it was not very engaging to me. It was essentially a 2nd person self-help style thing for like 30 pages, and I couldn't really relate very strongly to most of it. Should I try again?

I read it. I also literally cannot remember a thing about it.

I am going to concur with this. I ran out of steam on this one after reading four or five of the others. I wish that I had just started and ended with Magister Ludi.

Is it actually about werewolves or not?

Not in the literal sense. It's about a man's attempt at reconciling the order loving, art drinking, music breathing part of his soul with his animalistic, visceral desires for the most baseline thrills of life. The latter is imagined by his soul being partly a wolf (not in the literal sense, you furry fuck).
