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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

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inesffonseca's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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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.

lthlmac's review

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slow-paced

3.0

arnaut's review against another edition

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inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I enjoyed this book very much

mattymoo97's review

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5.0

Turns out I don’t need therapy, I just need to hang out with a nice old man in a boat

ohheyash's review against another edition

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hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

This was my 2nd time reading this book and I feel like I’ve understood and gotten more from it this go round. •••we should treat each person from a space a love. Everything we aspire to be we don’t have to seek b/c it’s already in us. We just have to flow with the things b/c everything is happen all at once. I’m glad I took the time to reread this and do it at a slower pace so that I could actually take time to understand what I was reading.