re doorstoppers

[Michael Bailey]

I liked Glass Bead Game.
(in John Goodman voice from Barton Fink) -- It'll show you the life of the mind!

no but seriously, I thought it was pretty cool and more fun than
Siddhartha or Steppenwolf or Damien.

Leah Speake's mother (Leah Speake was this ravishingly pretty girl in
our high school) was friends with my friend Rob and once, maybe even
twice, I got to go over to her house and drink tea - for some reason
Rob was a tea fiend for a couple years in high school.
Anyway, she said that the first time she read it she thought it was
about the life of the mind, but then reread it and realized the Glass
Bead Game was life itself.

Can't remember if I liked Glass Bead Game better, or Magister Ludi.  (joke)


On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> I gave it my best shot, and it didn't take. To be perfectly honest,
> I think Hesse peaked with Steppenwolf. But don't let me
> dissuade you.
> On Nov 16, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Richard Ryan wrote:
>
>> I've read a good deal of .Mann's friend Hesse's major works,
>> but like (I suspect) most people, I've never gotten around to
>> that psychedelic doorstopper, The Glassbead Game.
>



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