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  <title><![CDATA[Demian]]></title>
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  <default-description>In Demian, one of the great writers of the twentieth century tells the dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent--led by precocious shoolmate Max Demian--into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to selfhood.

    &quot;The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian...is unforgettable. With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst.&quot;
    -- From the Introduction by Thomas Mann</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1919</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Demian</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Hermann Hesse]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i am so glad i give authors three books to make me love them. this was hesses last chance to woo me, and he really almost got a five-star valentine from me, but we will call it a four and a half - must be a little coy, after all. this is a book that i would love to go back in time and give myself up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65348041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Maggie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon May 05 17:23:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh. I forced myself to finish this short book and, in the end, felt it wasn't worth the trouble. I picked it up because I loved Siddhartha so much (though it's been years since I read it and now I wonder if it it will hold up). I found Demian terribly melodramatic and over-wrought and I could never...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21665828">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7134589">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Oct 02 05:52:14 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Demian...............how lucky people are who are so inclined to constantly be searching as are the characters in this book! How much they discover, how many emotions they feel, how incredibly inspiring they are. I loved this book because I love passionate people.]]></body>
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    <review id="55511360">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[قول هرمان هيسه :<br/><br/>- لمْ أكن أريدُ إلا أن أعيش وفــقَ الدوافع التي تَـنبٌع منْ نفسي الحقيقية , فلم كان ذلك بهذه الصعوبة ؟؟؟؟<br/><br/>وأنا أقول :<br/><br/>- من جد ليه صعب ؟...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55511360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17900702">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sophia]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I appreciate Demian for its insight, for the beautiful way in which it's written, for the forward thinking of its time, and for its resemblance to Hesse's life.<br/><br/>Although conversations often feel unreal, the conversations are incidental.  Like Sarte's plays, it's more about conveying the p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17900702">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3555932">
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 26 07:28:15 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 26 11:52:38 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was one of my first introductions to the idea of following an unconventional spiritual path.  Rereading it recently, I found the story of how Max Demian guided the young Emil Sinclair away from his familiar world and into the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment just as engrossing as I had the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3555932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38683227">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A tale of the young practicing magician.<br/><br/>Hesse's books tend to draw parallels between everything I'm experiencing and reading . . . Choke, The Mindscape of Alan Moore, Dreams and Wishes, my own story of the Purgatory Pioneer.<br/><br/>It's in times when I'm pressured to get a steady job...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38683227">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66940087">
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  <date_updated>Tue Aug 11 07:20:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book--although I could see being annoyed with it for possible narcissistic interpretations (as for eg: Catcher in the Rye is now annoying since I'm no longer 17). There is much universal truth of the human experience (can I say that?) to be discovered by the reader as s/he foll...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66940087">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49977829">
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    <name><![CDATA[Roxy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 22 14:31:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just completed the most incredible book I have ever read. At least right now, only minutes after finished pouring myself into its words for the past two days (in which I read it front to back), that is what I think... That this is the most special, enlightening, beautiful, peaceful, entrancing...a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49977829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41716125">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andreea]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 03 09:10:46 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to admit I was a bit disappointed by the book. Hesse is one of my favorite writers and I've read most of his novels and a book of shorts-stories, but Demian is not match to the later novels. I did enjoy the novel, I don't think you can not enjoy Hesse's writing style, but the story just felt ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41716125">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44434066">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rhonda]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jan 26 14:29:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in college during the summer of my junior year.  it was so good that I read all the rest of Hesse's work and Thomas Mann's also!  Although I was pretty sure that Hesse wasn't translating all that well into English and some of the construction seemed a bit awkward at times, I enjoyed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44434066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41236983">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Dec 29 18:36:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great story about a person named Sinclair finding himself through his childhood and into his early adult years.   He does so mainly by looking inward, but first by meeting and developing a deep friendship with a classmate named Max Demian.  Sinclair learns to interpret his dreams, which I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41236983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30147383">
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    <body><![CDATA[A memorable book you want to read again. About being conscience and how different people affect and influence you.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mi tre ĝuis legi tiun romanon en Esperanto, jam leginte ĝin en la angla antaŭ eble 2 jaroj. Hesse estas unu el miaj plej ŝatataj aŭtoroj, kaj mi miras pri la manko de Esperantaj tradukoj de Hesse. Mi antaŭĝuas la sekvan tradukon.<br/><br/>La traduko ĝenerale plaĉis al mi, sed estis iom tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70490003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68488956">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terrible, dreary book.  I can't understand what anyone sees in Hesse.<br/><br/>It's supposed to be the diary of a teenage boy, but it's really just an excuse for the author to ramble on about various philosophical notions at length.  Nobody actually does anything very much apart from talk philosophy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68488956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51368523">
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 03 07:44:18 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not sure I am smart enough for this book. I am unable to grasp all of the philosophic ideas and spiritual exploring involved. I felt depressed during much of it. However, it is a nice change from other books I've read recently in the sense that the list of characters are minimal and the majorit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51368523">more...</a>]]></body>
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