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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
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
سأكتب حتمًا عن دميان الأيام القادمة، ولسوف يعيش هذا الكتاب بداخلي أمدًا طويلًا...
challenging
dark
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hesse can be slightly heavy-handed at times, but this was a damn good book. Much like Siddhartha, it was a little tough going into it, but once you surrender to the stuff underneath it's easy-going. The story isn't the most interesting thing and takes a backseat to a lot of the concepts in there, but I didn't care. The concepts were fucking awesome, and that's what I dig about Hesse. I read Siddhartha when I was 17 and it blew my mind. At 25, Demian blew my mind.
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
challenging
dark
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
I’ve long intended to read another book by Herman Hesse. Siddhartha, his reimagining of the life of the Buddha, is one of my all-time favorite books, and one of two that I have read more than twice (the other is Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury). But for some reason I’ve never read another book by him until now. I think that was probably a mistake. Demian is a Nietschean/Freudian parable about a young man finding his own moral compass in the world, and there is a lot of beautiful wisdom in it. Ultimately, though, I find the “great man” theory to be philosophically bankrupt, seductive though it may be, and the book’s finale was unsatisfying. Still, it’s a short read that will make you think, and I think it’s worth the time. If you enjoyed The Alchemist by Pablo Coehlo, you will probably enjoy this, at least in storytelling style.
Some of my favorite quotes:
“It’s possible for one to never transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa…Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised.”
“Each man had only one genuine vocation—to find the way to himself.”
Some of my favorite quotes:
“It’s possible for one to never transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa…Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised.”
“Each man had only one genuine vocation—to find the way to himself.”
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes