What does Veeky Forums think of Steppenwolf?

What does Veeky Forums think of Steppenwolf?

Generally the opinion on this board is that it's good, and one of Hesse's best works. It definitely has a main character that is most similar to the posters here, out of all his works, so that may influence it.

literally me

Hesse is kino-tier and it's a shame that while Steppenwolf is fantastic, and autists like to bitch about Siddhartha being an easy-to-read, vanilla eastern metaphysical Roman with fantastic prose, his other works like Peter Camenzind, Glass Bead Game, or Narcissus and Goldmund get a fraction of the attention those other two get.

muh too cuck not to live fully a life of absolute madman
but uncuck just enough not to live the chill out man, just cuck around life

stuck in the middle, story of how life can be wasted there

This book changed my life, it's a must read.
I was depressed before reading it, now i'm feeling happy.

One cannot help but notice the irony that, though Hesse seems to believe Harry has done so, he has quiet clearly failed to understand Pablo and Hermonie's lesson. He does not embrace "humour" as they and Mozart instruct but instead declares he will go through "hell" and existential struggle to discover it. Which seems to entirely miss the point of the lesson he has been taught.

Hermione's*

really?

Having not ever read this book, is it an insult if somebody tells you that the protagonist resembles you?