Am I too late to read The Glass Bead Game? I have the vague impression that it's one of those books you have to read as a teenager to really like.
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I read it about 2 years ago. Yeah best suited to mid 20s, but advantage of reading it later is you get more of the satire. Younger readers seem to miss the satire entirely and treat it as a regular Bildungsroman with a mystic plot.
playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. The game is essentially an abstract synthesis of all arts and sciences. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics


