2005-07-19 - 1:17 p.m. - Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
Kind of the same deal as with Power and the Glory, now that I think about it. Journey, guy questioning the path of the soul, liked it okay, don't have much to say about it. This was certainly shorter, but the storybook-esque prose made it hard to really get into Siddhartha as more than an archetype. Or a rewrite of Buddha anyway. So what's the deal, was this like the first time anybody in the West heard about Buddhism or going with the flow or whatever? I enjoyed it okay, and at times it really made me feel peaceful just to be reading it...but I don't get the hype.