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    <body><![CDATA[Whatever.  Blah blah blah Samana.  Blah blah blah Kamala.  Blah blah blah Samsara.  Blah blah blah River.  Blah blah blah Om.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ehm.. &quot;terintimidasi&quot; dan &quot;terprovokasi&quot; oleh seorang Amang yang telah menyelesaikan buku ini (sori, sempet dilibas dulu ama Harry Potter 7, hehe). Awalnya hanya &quot;mark as to read&quot; saja karena sempat melihat bukunya di toko dan berharap mungkin suatu saat akan membacanya...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20860082">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Frank and I were having a conversation the other night in which we were discussing one of our usual topics:  religion / spirituality... though I guess the other favorites (art, film, food, books, money woes, professional woes, traffic rants, geography, bad weather, family woes, music, soccer, our fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13565089">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Membaca Buddha&quot; bagian 1:<br/><br/>Latar belakang:<br/>Saya, Erie dan Roos sedang sama-sama membaca Buddha dalam rangka menyambut Waisak (taela)... Ini adalah rangkaian sebuah pembacaan kolektif dan massif yang melibatkan beragam sumber mulai dari Siddhartha Hermann Hesse yang ditulis ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21913352">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This little book is as potent as a teaspoon of jabanero sauce on my Thai noodles, and Hermann, being a Germann, makes it just as efficient. An epic journey on a string of DNA winding through life, coiled and compressed into this small package for the busy intellectual. Despite having the brevity of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38994561">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Siddharta, in my opinion is a book which can be interpreted in a myriad of ways by its reader. For me personally, it represents the search for happiness by the self. The search for the meaning of life, the purpose for one's existence. Siddharta tries to reveal that true happiness can't be found by f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22006396">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[There are three different Persian translations of this books by Soroush Habibi, Parviz Dariyoush and Freidoun Gorgani<br/><br/>سه ترجمه فارسي از اين كتاب وجود دارند<br/>اول ترجمه سروش حبيبي به سال 1384 كه تحت عنوان سيدارتها انجام شد و توسط نشر ققنوس انتشار يافت<br/><br/>دوم ترجمه پرويز داريوش به سال 1355 به نام سيذارتا كه در سال 1385 انتشارات اساطير آن را تجديد چاپ كرد<br/><br/>و آخري كار فريدون گرگاني به سال 1346 كه نام كتاب را به سدهرت ها ترجمه كرده<br/>و نشر فردوس آن را آخرين بار در سال 1385<br/>چاپ دوباره كرده است]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[ای عاشقان کیمیاگر کوئیلو به راستی این سیدارتهاست که به سلوک می رود همانگونه که هسه خود در واقع طی طریق می کرده و نه چون کوئیلو  کاسب کاری<br/><br/>سيدارتها گمشده اي دارد ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8569581">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in high school and again, as an adult, with my book club.  This remains one of my all-time favorite books.  In many ways the story mirrors the actual life of the Buddah--but not quite.  It is the story of one person's search for enlightenment.  Hesse presents just that--that, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73397226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an easy read.  The narrative lingers and can seem slow at times where it dwells on a scene's mood, but for anyone that knows nothing of buddhism, this is an excellently painless way to dive in.<br/>I picked this book up since I'd been listening to the 1972 album, Close to the Edge, by Yes, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27311736">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Latah...mau baca juga...secara dah selesai yang Osamu Tezuka...mungkin karena Komik kali yah...lebih gampang selesai...<br/><br/>Update : 25 May 2008,Kang Erie dan Kang Amang,siap-siap gulung tikar yah....<br/><br/>Membaca buku ini, membuat penasaran karena Sidharta disini bukan Sidharta Sang Pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22346616">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The search for truth, salvation and meaning is always a good story to tell. Hesse's novel follows the life and times of &quot;Siddhartha,&quot; an ambitious son of a holy man who sets out on his own thirsting for knowledge and truth. So he wonders the forest for a couple of years, meets Buddha -- of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18344713">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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