I've rather liked it, though it's not exactly an action-packed page turner. If you haven't read any other Hesse, Siddhartha worked as a good starting point for me and has the advantage of being much shorter, so it's a good way to get a taste of whether you like his style and themes.

Glass Bead Game, though, was Hesse's last novel, written when he was an older man, and when he was deciding that maybe writing novels wasn't what he was about anymore (for the next 20 years, he only wrote poems, short stories, essays, and responses to letters). That perspective has been an interesting one to me at this point in my journey.

Also, I can recognize some of the themes of Spengler in the sketch of future history that is the backdrop to the story, so it makes a good complement to my other longer-than-it-should-be-taking reading project of The Decline of the West. I guess I'm going to have to take a break from ze Germans if I want a faster read!