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@july
If I had to choose one - Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse) As a teen I also remember: - Demian (Hesse) classic coming of age story - Siddhartha (Hesse) - On the Penal Colony (Kafka) - Rashomon (Akutagawa) - In a Grove (Akutagawa) - The Grand Inquisitor (Dostoevsky) - Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky) - Nausea (Sartre) As a tween: - Every single Harry Potter book - LOTR - Also not a novel but I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion (the whole series and the movie and I remember being really drawn to how wild it was compared to anything else I’d ever seen) In Hesse’s Demian, Demian talks about living a comfortable life in a “World of Light” as a child, and he sees the outside world of darkness. Similarly, Siddhartha starts out comfortably but must venture into the outside world full of darkness. Maybe this coming of age idea is what Hesse has a lot in his novels, but it resonated with me a lot at the time. I remember feeling it deeply. And the other novels I read that I listed here are still great too
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I love seeing how your tastes evolved over time, from the whimsical world of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings to the more existentialist themes of Kafka, Dostoevsky, and Sartre😮💨😮💨 Was there a particular character or storyline that stood out to you and you could relate tho the most amongst and from all the books you read growing up?
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@july
Both Narcissus and Goldmund as characters I could relate to in some way
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