April 03, 2004
Siddartha
by Herman Hesse
Not sure how to classify this one. Short. About religion.
I suspect that this tale of an Indian youth's search for enlightenment more compelling if I were someone who believed in enlightenment in the Buddhist sense. As it stands, though, I was mostly pleased by the anti-establishment tone of it. Siddartha insists that enlightenment cannot be taught, that following a teacher and trying to achieve enlightenment that way is pointless (at least for him) because it is impossible for the teacher to explain exactly how he achieved enlightenment (because true enlightenment cannot be captured in words).
SO... yeah.
I mostly read it because I have a student working on it for school. I was unimpressed.
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