Why do people yap about Siddhartha and Steppenwolf when this exists?

All three of them (plus Glass Bead Game) are necessary.
It goes Demian -> Steppenwolf -> Siddhartha -> (optionally Journey to the East) -> The Glass Bead Game

>>24563101 (OP)
>>24563196

if i thought siddhartha and steppenwolf were dumb boring reddit books, will i like demian?

>>24564331
are you sort of me? I was completely underwhelmed by Steppenwolf. Myabe the hype was too great, since I heard praises for it from some people I respect. But it was just meh, whatever

>>24563196
You're missing Unterm Rad and Peter Camenzind desu. And I wouldn't call Journey to the East optional.

>>24564331
Who can say from that description? Tell us specifically what you didn't like about them and maybe someone can answer.
>>24564335
Unterm Rad is pointless in my opinion.
It's a mishmash of the idea in all of the books I mentioned but done without experience in writing, without the time and space on the page to be properly explored, and with some academic grievances tossed in there too to distract from the message.
I haven't read Peter Camenzind, so I can't comment. What do you like about it?
Journey to the East is there if you don't initially understand why Glass Bead Game is needed. If you finish Siddhartha, then read the synopsis of Glass Bead Game and already think it sounds good, then you're good to go.

>>24564345
>>24564345
>Tell us specifically what you didn't like about them and maybe someone can answer.

pseud reddit shit that has nothing to do with a mentally stable chad (me) whos not hopped up on SSRIs to stop from killing himself and turning troon. im not going through any mental crisis or depression and i have a happy stable life in which i routinely hit my life goals and dont feel like a failure. will i like demian?

bruh how can u dudes overlook narcissus and goldmund? that shit is fire

>>24564361
this

>>24564359
>buzzwords buzzwords buzzwords buzzwords
Alright. No, you probably won't like Demian.
>>24564361
It's good, but it not part of the same chain of ideas in the books we're talking about here.

>>24564377
Hesse's main idea is (overcoming)dualism, N&G embodies that very well

>>24563101 (OP)
it's like an ai gave up halfway while creating the cover here
(i know it's real, but it's not a good cover)
great book btw

>>24564711
wut those covers fucking rock bro that said i don't remember a protective birdlady from demian maybe i should read it again

>>24564716
The cover references multiple elements of the book I think, but especially the sentence: The bird fights its way out of the egg. "The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas."

>>24564716
The lady is most likely Eva, the mother of Demian.

>>24563101 (OP)
Siddharta mogs, Demian is just alright. I actually don't feel like Hesse is that great when compared to other classic writers.

>>24564719
man demian was straight fire i read it like 15 years ago and was like this shit rules but i forgot most of it now gotta reread it

>>24564716
it's awful
only santana has done a good representation of abraxas in illustration (pic rel)

>>24564731
i can always tell mids cuz when someone says abraxas they think of santana and not demian

>>24564734
and I can tell pleb if they only know Shaman

>>24564746
is shaman the album that came out in like 1999 and had a song with ricky martin or a different hispanic gay guy as the singer?

>>24564751
exactly
let it serve as a warning that we can regress on our spiritual journey

Demian is his second best book after Nsrcissus and Goldmund.

>>24564886
how does The Glass Bead Game stack up?

>>24563196
This and lots of people read the wrong one for their stage in life. Read Demian young as possible. Steppenwolf in early adulthood. Siddhartha in your 20s. The Glass Bead Game after 30.

>>24564734
Hmmm... but Santana is more patrician than HH?

>>24565376
>patrician
lol what up old head, hesse got a nobel prize what did santana get? one of those music awards they give to major label acts? i forgot what they call them. ok santana played at woodstock, that's sooomething i guess, but hesse still better.

>>24565388
oh ya a grammy who gives a shit about those

>>24565388
it's apple and oranges
i've had crazy sex while listening to old santana; i'm doubtful an audiobook of siddartha could do the same (maybe the kamala bits)

>>24565388
Don't care about prizes, and I think that Santana was more accomplished artistically than Hesse. Good ol' HH always seemed very middle of the road to me.