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Demian

Hermann Hesse

4.05 AVERAGE

reflective medium-paced
reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

hermosa prosa. 
interesting themes and concepts, significantly great exploration of them yet they’re not a big revelation today as they probably were when it was first published and throughout the first half of the 20th century. 
challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

էս գիրքը հէնց հեսսէի սիդհարթայի էս տողերով կարամ մենակ «մեկնաբանեմ»․
«բառերը չեն նպաստում գաղտնի իմաստների ըմբռնմանը, խանգարում են դրան։ հէնց որ մի միտք ես ուզում բարձրաձայն արտաբերել, այն արդէն փոքր֊ինչ այլ իմաստ է ձեռք բերում, հնչում է աւելի կեղծ, աւելի անհեթեթ»։

challenging reflective medium-paced

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

"I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference."

"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world."

"I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves"
challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

One of the best books I've ever written. The relationship between Demian and Sinclair was the most compelling of all. 
challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

"For awakened human beings, there was no obligation—none, none, none at all—except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led."

A true masterpiece that lives up to every swoon written about it.