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>> No.12558750
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12558750

Yes, read Demian instead if you’re entry level.

>> No.12559488

>>12558709
Yes

>> No.12559510

>>12558709
It's horribly written "just be yourself" leftist propaganda in an extremely thinly veiled, cliched allegory.

I think his basic idea is right. Nobody should ever be restricted from doing what they want to do, certainly by themselves. But all his talk of omens, and universal conspiracies is just bullshit. It's a gamble, your life can be irrevocably damaged if you take that leap. It's not good literature in any sense, he forces his themes on you so that the normies can understand. Although if a more talented author wrote this, it could be a decent topic to explore. I'd like to read this with the prose of Melville, Steinbeck, Hardy, not some hue hue hack

>> No.12559827

>>12558709
only a brainlet lets someone else tell them what they can and can't enjoy. so you're a brainlet, but not for the reason you were thinking

>> No.12559842

>>12558709
I think it’s totally fine as a little adventure story.

>> No.12559907

>>12558709


If that makes you happy I guess? That's better than read something you don't like and struggling with it just because a lot of people read it..

>> No.12559916

>>12559842
But it's not fine even as a little adventure story. It's incredibly didactic and the tone is bathetic and precious. It's bad, dude. Only excuse to read it is if you're a girl. Like, literal human female under the age of majority.

>> No.12559924

>>12559916
Let people enjoy things faggot

>> No.12560846

>>12558709
Pretty much.

>> No.12560919

>>12558709
Yes

>> No.12562098

Fuck the haters anon, this book is enjoyable. Yeah it isn't revolutionary and it's rife with mystical but ultimately meaningless themes and it's a bit deceptive in that sense, pseudo profound if you will, but ultimately it's a quick enjoyable read.

>> No.12562105

>tfw this was summer reading for 10th grade English
>alongside the masterpiece Siddhartha
>forced to make "text-to-text connections"
Fuck education

>> No.12562143

>>12558709
Yes.