What I expected

>what I expected
coping with loneliness and not fitting in with the world
>what I got
dude just be a hedonist lmao

get over it normie

>What I expected
Poignant narrative dealing with ascetic loneliness from one of Germany's best
>What I got
Tediously juvenile insight from the guy who wrote Siddhartha

>Tediously juvenile
This probably sums up a lot of my feelings here. The writing was nice, but the "message" seemed pretty pedestrian and not very creative. It was basically "live life for pleasure" but dressed up in literary devices.

Okay, so I very seldom post on Veeky Forums and I'll cop to being a brainlet. I'm going to ask a question and you're all going to immediately dismiss me as a troll, but I assure you I just want my (probably stupid) question answered.

Will reading Steppenwolf give me a better appreciation for the villain of 'Justice League'? The character was pretty lame and underdeveloped. I assume he must have some connection to the novel.

Thank you for honest answers.

Prelude to Steppenwolf is actually better than the entire book

It's not good for coping, it's more like every incels dream. His whole "coping" is built upon luck, that some beautiful girl showed extreme interest in him.
Not very likely and not any real help.

You guys are either pretty dense or the English translation sucks in some way.

The book does not say, become a hedonist, endd of story.
Have you actually read all the parts about the diversity of a human being and the importance of not letting some parts of it go to waste? Have you understood that it is important that Haller felt out of place beforehand?

This book is a lot more complex and a lot better than you think or say it is.

God Veeky Forums is terrible now

In other words, you projected your own situation onto the novel, and were somehow surprised that it wasn't about that.

>His whole "coping" is built upon luck, that some beautiful girl showed extreme interest in him.
She isn't real FFS. She's his feminine complement, or Anima. Even her name is a clue (what's the author called again?)

You're not wrong.