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I Love Books

One of the few good things about being in lockdown is that I will finally read some books that I have been postponing for years.

Today I started Hermann Hesse's 'The glass bead game'. I remember starting it in my early twenties, after being spellbound by Demian and Steppenwolf. But 'The glass bead game' was something different. Too dense. Too cold. Like a palace made of white ivory that you look in awe but you feel you cannot enter. I could not finish it, and I remember I thought 'maybe at some point later'. Well, that 'later' has finally come.

Anyone else going to read some long overdue book during lockdown?
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SW-User
"The Glass Bead Game" is on my to-read list as well. But right now I'm going to finally start the 1000+ page tome "1Q84" by Haruki Murakami. It's been on my shelf forever and I've been daunted by its size but it's time to give it a go.
Cierzo · M
@SW-User I hope your experience with Murakami is better than mine.
SW-User
@Cierzo I loved Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Norwegian Wood was so-so). So I have decently high hopes. :)
Cierzo · M
@SW-User I started both. Could not finish The Wind-up bird chronicle (I found it really empty). Kafka on the shore is better, but did not blow me away at all.