thankfully I dropped this one before that part.

>>25313437
My favorite when I was 15yo, but you tend to grow out of YA fiction.

>>25313437
I need a manic pixie dream girl too :(

>>25313437
>saved
I don't think we read the same book

You need to read it as an adult to understand the meaning. I disliked it as a teenager and now being ancient, a re-read was enjoyable

Id also reccomended reading about the author more and perhaps his exchange of letters with the Chilean guy.

>>25313437
>smart-but-asocial neurotic MC gets saved by an outgoing manic pixie dream girl
This used to actually happen sometimes before social media and smartphones ruined social interactions between people.
>t. millennial boomer

>>25313498
Also before being retard and acting black was made the ideal and doing otherwise became seen as cringe

>>25313437
Saved? This book is a warning

>>25313498
It still happened to me as a zoomer

>>25313550
>saved

Was gonna say: OP clearly didn't read to the end. The whole point seems to be that hedonistic pleasure has a place to salve the soul but leads you places you can't stay and can't take your original self through.

>Hinduism fetish
The entire era was flush with it. It's a result of famous Indian texts getting a translation and filtering in to academic society.

>>25313437
agree; it started well, but it was such a flat feeling when it turned out to be some eastern mysticism thing.

Got bored in the middle and left it alone for a while before finishing. Might warrant a reread sometime in the future.

>also pretty amazing how overt the 'smart-but-asocial neurotic MC gets saved by an outgoing manic pixie dream girl' trope is.
is it true? is it basically what the book is about? i didnt read it so someone please enlighten me, is it really about a mc that meets some girl and she makes him love life and everyone ends up happy?

>>25313749
It's about /lit/erally (You) falling for the average western girl and going along with her lifestyle until it turns into Evangelion

>>25313437
He was saved by literally becoming gay.

>>25313749
I see it more as coming to terms with losing the manic pixie dreamgirl while still acknowledging that the experience he had with her as necessary for self-actualization.

>>25313437
I don't think "manic pixie dream girl trope" actually happens enough to properly be called a trope.
Sort of like how "fridging" was largely just feminist bullshit that was never useful for media analysis and was never a trope at all.

>>25313749
I think the drugs did the heavy lifting, and it's not like a happily-ever-after ending. It's a great novel though, just read it.

>>25313749
People who hate Hesse read that one New Yorker article written by some Jew who got filtered by eastern Phil 10, just read his books they’re good. Steppenwolf isn’t his best, but I still like it a lot. And when you finish that you can read Big Sur by Kerouac and appreciate that book even more.

>>25313437
None of you people seem to have the maturity required to read this book. Just skip it and read something more accessible and up your alley like Siddhartha.

>>25316168
>In this moment I am euphoric

>>25313449
Dolt. It's a book for men in their fifties.
Hesse himself complained about young readers who couldn't possibly understand it.

>>25313749
The "some girl" he meets is literally his own Anima.
It's a Jungian book, which is why it filters so many retards.