The most difficult book you've ever read?

[Todesritter]

Where I come from, Kafka is used as "self-help" reading.

I'd classify Kafka and Hesse (although in very different senses) as "you can't keep living like this, man" authors

[BakersfieldChimp]

I'd classify Kafka and Hesse (although in very different senses) as "you can't keep living like this, man" authors

Hesse


In my teens, I went through a phase where I couldn't quite get over the brilliance of "Siddhartha". I was so full of myself.
As a recovering intellectual, I put more value in "Steppenwolf" and I shudder at my one-time devotion.

Strauss' most beautiful work is a setting of a Hesse text

[Batavia]