The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse

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The title of this novel refers to an ultra-aesthetic game played by scholars in the kingdom of Castalia around the year 2400. The game involves all branches of knowledge and spiritual values, especially those of the East.

The losing choices put up for selection by Borris were:
Crabwalk - Gunter Grass
Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doeblin
I'm Not Stiller - Max Frisch

Rating for the Glass bead game: AS: 6.5; BH: 5; CE: 2 and the rest of us is still working on it...