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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Hesse I always found boring. I read fiction to be shown a world that I never experienced before. Hesse's fiction is like a boring lecture that you need to sit through because the information is quality, but the person delivering it is a monotone bore.
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A girlfriend of mine once read me some pages of
Steppenwolf. She found it very relevant with what she felt life was like - when in fact, what really was happening to her was that she had to chose who to dump among three men.
The pages she read were really boring.
Looking for a book I never found, I told a librarian that I'd pick whatever book she wanted. She handed me
Steppenwolf. I reluctantly read it.
It was extremely boring in its first half. A boring life = a boring way to show it, in Hesse's mind. Which I found a bit easy.
Then, the routine is shattered, and it was kinda good.
I won't read it again though.
I've just finished
The Nazi and the Barber, by Edgar Hilsenrath, and I liked it. There's a little dip in form, I'd say, circa 1950, but, that's more than ok.
Next: Laura Kasichke
Oh! And I read Ivan Gontcharov's
Oblomov.
The most beautifully told love story I've read in years, even though it's nof half the subject of the book, centered on a man labeled as lazy, the poor weary bloke (how I relate to that).