Coelho is so much less talented. Hesse has actual depth. The reason I compared the two is because a lot of people know Coelho, and are only going to understand the spiritual self-discovery sort of story through that prism.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
- 17/02/2011 10:26:34 PM
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Although I have not had the pleasure of reading it in German, in English I deeply enjoyed the book.
- 17/02/2011 10:36:36 PM
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I am in basic agreement with you, though I haven't read it since high school. *NM*
- 18/02/2011 08:48:09 AM
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I think it is a little unfair
- 18/02/2011 11:19:17 AM
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You mean Eco to Brown.
- 18/02/2011 01:16:10 PM
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You weren't really slamming a Nobel laureate in favor of a shitty writer like Coelho, were you?
- 18/02/2011 06:29:17 PM
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