A review by henrybe
Demian by Hermann Hesse

5.0

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.