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The Glass Bead Game

trruk1 @trruk1 (1028) • United States 20 Jan 10

The Glass Bead Game, also titled Magister Ludi, is a terrific work. Hesse spends several hundred pages telling you about the game, and yet he never really tells you anything about how it is played. This is certainly (at least in...

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What book have you never been able to finish?

Foxfire1875 @Foxfire1875 (2010) 24 Jun 08

I've read all the Herman Hesse books apart from one Steppenwolf for some reason I just can't finish it. It's not that I dislike it, it just doesn't keep my interest which is strange. I can and do finish every book good or bad,...

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