Post your top five favorite books
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>Demian - Hermann Hesse
>Grendel - John Gardner
>House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
>Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
>Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Post your top five favorite books
Eli Hall
Logan Bell
>Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus
>L Frank Baum - The Wonderful Land of Oz
>Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
>JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
>HP Lovecraft - Complete Fiction
Henry Kelly
Pale Fire is incredible. It made me cry and laugh almost simultaneously.
Nathaniel King
>>Demian - Hermann Hesse
Based. This is the only one I've read from your list, do you recommend the others?
I'll post my list even though I haven't read an extensive amount of books.
Demian
Narcissus and Goldmund
Collection of Kafka's short stories
DMT: The Spirit Molecule
The Young Hitler I Knew
Aaron Rivera
stop seeking validation for your consumption preferences
Mason Clark
woke
Jackson Perry
Damian remains my favorite simply because it changed my life. If you like Hesse read Grendel, The Magic Mountain, and Nausea (and Steppenwolf if you haven't already). For Kafka, read Ficciones and then House of Leaves
Kayden Morgan
The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob
The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler
Strange Weather in Tokyo/The Briefcase by Kawakami
The Cathedral of Mist by Paul Willems
Ethan Adams
>Damian remains my favorite simply because it changed my life.
how a book of a weak boy, that gets a "super-hero" friend with some lame supernatural powers, that defends him from the school bully changed your life?
Joshua Robinson
That's a very superficial reading. Demian's mother, who Sinclair has a hard-on for, is compared to a sort of fate numerous times. And she tells Sinclair he can only have her if he is decisive. And she birthed Demian.
The whole story is allegorical. Demian isn't a real person, hes a representation of what Sinclair could be if he seizes his fate and destroys the old, weaker self of obedience and religious dogma. Notice how Demian never seems to interact with anyone else in the book besides his mother.
At its core, it's a book about striving to be the best version of yourself possible with the hand you've been dealt by lady luck, and rising out of adversity, that destruction must precede creation.