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Steppenwolf
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Um. What the? What?
What the hell did I just read?
First third, BRILLIANT -- one of the most interesting bits of philosophical fiction I've ever read. Seriously. I was completely enthralled. Second third -- hard to believe that two people would ever actually have conversations such as these, but still engaging. Third third -- what the F*CK? No, really, what the f*ck? It was some sort of crazy funhouse reality blurring, whacked out Kubrick film. I don't know if I liked it or I hated it. My brain is still in knots.
So -- uh -- while I try to disentangle my axons -- I'll leave you with a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEEzbF...
****
The more I allow this to sink in, the more I like it. I think I need to consider seriously revising my review. At any rate, I'm giving it an extra star.
What the hell did I just read?
First third, BRILLIANT -- one of the most interesting bits of philosophical fiction I've ever read. Seriously. I was completely enthralled. Second third -- hard to believe that two people would ever actually have conversations such as these, but still engaging. Third third -- what the F*CK? No, really, what the f*ck? It was some sort of crazy funhouse reality blurring, whacked out Kubrick film. I don't know if I liked it or I hated it. My brain is still in knots.
So -- uh -- while I try to disentangle my axons -- I'll leave you with a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEEzbF...
****
The more I allow this to sink in, the more I like it. I think I need to consider seriously revising my review. At any rate, I'm giving it an extra star.
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Reading Progress
March 1, 2012
– Shelved
March 9, 2012
– Shelved as:
the-germans
June 27, 2012
– Shelved as:
nobel-laureates
November 21, 2012
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Started Reading
November 21, 2012
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11.47%
"A wolf of the Steppes that had lost its way and strayed into the towns and the life of the herd, a more striking image could not be found for his shy loneliness, his savagery, his restlessness, his homesickness, his homelessness."
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25
November 21, 2012
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11.47%
"There is much to be said for contentment and painlessness, for these bearable and submissive days, on which neither pain nor pleasure is audible, but pass by whispering and on tip-toe. But the worst of it is that it is just this contentment that I cannot endure. After a short time it fills me with irrepressible hatred and nausea."
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25
November 21, 2012
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25.69%
"All interpretations, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythology and lies..."
page
56
November 22, 2012
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36.7%
"Without really wanting to at all, they pay calls & carry on conversations, sit out their hours at desks & on office chairs ... it could all be done or left undone just as well by machines & indeed it is this never-ceasing machinery that prevents their being, like me, the critic of their own lives & recognizing the stupidity & shallowness, the hopeless tragedy & waste of the lives they lead"
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80
November 23, 2012
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68.81%
"it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission"
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150
November 24, 2012
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Finished Reading
November 25, 2012
– Shelved as:
dark
November 25, 2012
– Shelved as:
read-in-2012
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rated it 5 stars
Nov 22, 2012 04:16PM
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Get your motor running. Go make it happen.
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Lucky you. It's still dark, but in this case you might have some company.
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I just had a look at your review, and you might have written mine for me.
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Do you realize how awesome you make it sound when you say that?! I is confuseded!
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Do you realize how awesome you make it sound when you say that?! I is confuseded!"
It is awesome. In an acid-trip kinda way.
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I suppose I could have posted 'Born to Be Wild' but this one seemed to fit the story better. Especially that whacky Magical Theater business.
Oh Herr Hesse, I didn't know you had it in you!