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A review by suncaida
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
3.0
I had to read this my final year of high school. My English teacher at the time believed she couldn't have us graduate without having read this book. I think I would've been just fine (along with generally most of the books she made us read, some were rather unsettling and not always in the mind opening, character developing kind of way).
Granted the situation may have skewed my rating. So take this with a grain of salt.
Siddhartha goes on the standard journey of figuring out the meaning of life. Generally, he is unsatisfied with the existing ideologies of what that meaning might be. Until he finds a river that he has to cross or something.
He sits and watches it from my recollection and concludes that's where the meaning of life is. In a river. Because of how it connects and how it's ever flowing, so on and so on. Like cool, but not a genius breakthrough. I also remember initially being quite peeved at the conclusion of this extended allegory? Metaphor?
Not sure where I'd stand now regarding it, but there's that.
Granted the situation may have skewed my rating. So take this with a grain of salt.
Siddhartha goes on the standard journey of figuring out the meaning of life. Generally, he is unsatisfied with the existing ideologies of what that meaning might be. Until he finds a river that he has to cross or something.
He sits and watches it from my recollection and concludes that's where the meaning of life is. In a river. Because of how it connects and how it's ever flowing, so on and so on. Like cool, but not a genius breakthrough. I also remember initially being quite peeved at the conclusion of this extended allegory? Metaphor?
Not sure where I'd stand now regarding it, but there's that.