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A review by pikusonali
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
4.0
Gautam Buddha's life story has always fascinated me since childhood so I obviously picked this one with a lot of expectations.
It is a kind of book you will read more than once in your lifetime, simply because it can mean so many different things at various stages of life. Siddhartha is a story of one man's search for enlightenment and he does so by experiencing different philosophical lifestyles, whether it be through asceticism, hedonism, nihilism, fatherhood, or by being a novitiate.
There is a lot of inner dialogue in the book and it of course is very spiritual and philosophical. So, I cannot call it everyone's cup of tea. But if you are at a difficult time in your life, this book will be able to soothe you to a great extent.
It is a kind of book you will read more than once in your lifetime, simply because it can mean so many different things at various stages of life. Siddhartha is a story of one man's search for enlightenment and he does so by experiencing different philosophical lifestyles, whether it be through asceticism, hedonism, nihilism, fatherhood, or by being a novitiate.
There is a lot of inner dialogue in the book and it of course is very spiritual and philosophical. So, I cannot call it everyone's cup of tea. But if you are at a difficult time in your life, this book will be able to soothe you to a great extent.