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Re:Do you read? by swombat on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @07:50PM (#354070)
Make sure you take a peep at Hesse too. Narziss and Goldmund is a must-read - the kind of book that changes your perspective on life. He's Thomas Mann's intellectual equal, I would say.

As for Joseph, a word of encouragement: the further you get into it, the more the story starts to come together and pick up pace. The first 300 pages or so, it feels like you're reading random shreds of a story... but keep faith, it's all packed with mental wealth and well worth it!

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Re:Do you read? by colortone on Tuesday November 04, 2008 @08:09PM (#354080)
Narziss... looks good, I put it on my list. It's going to be a good while before I get back into classic fiction though ;-)

You might like Eco's "The Name of the Rose" since you seem to be into really good fiction set in Medieval Europe ;-)

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Re:Do you read? by swombat on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @02:43AM (#354326)
Read it, of course :-)

I still need to read his other book, the Pendulum...

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