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Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
4.25
challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

inside of you actually aren’t two wolves, but a thousand of them.

Surprisingly life-affirming with a touching ending. At first I rolled my eyes about how Hermine’s character was utilized (ohh the young beautiful woman changing the older dude’s life) but by the end I found her pretty interesting in her own right. 

Certain passages on self-imposed alienation, depression, etc., are very well written. I have read this in a particularly hard moment in my life, and overall I found it at first difficult, but by the end an insightful and hopeful read.