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Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse

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chiarinka's review against another edition

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challenging reflective slow-paced

3.5

magda_koch's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

bruninho's review against another edition

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relaxing sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Me ha gustado más de lo que esperaba. Un libro corto, una historia muy interesante y un estilo de escritura descriptivo y tranquilo. Me ha hecho reflexionar bastante. Contento de haberlo leído! Esta muy bien para entender la angustia que pueden transmitir los adultos a los adolescentes… Buen desarrollo de personajes tmb

mxlwxnx's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

hannerfausk's review against another edition

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challenging slow-paced

3.5

spacetime03's review against another edition

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“a powerful longing made the land of friendship glow with alluring colors on the horizon and drew him quietly in that direction…like a wallflower he stayed in the background waiting for someone to fetch him, someone more courageous and stronger than himself to tear him away and force him into happiness.”

“the two friends were to experience some very unusual weeks together, weeks during which they did not actually have any significant experiences but were filled with a strangely happy feeling of belonging together and being of one mind.”

“like a blind man feeling his way, he neared an understanding of the Homeric world. in history, the heroes stopped being mere names with dates; they peered at him with burning eyes, and each had living red lips and a face of his own…some personage or historical event would seemingly break forth hungrily from the books, yearning to live once more.”

“the precocious boy experienced an unreal second childhood during this period of illness. his sensibility, robbed of its real childhood, now fled with sudden yearning back to those already dimming years and wandered spellbound through a forest of memories…his betrayed and violated childhood erupted like a long pent-up spring.”