Review: Siddhartha

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

After reading The Life of Pi I wanted another book with a spiritual theme but a non-traditional philosophy. Well, non-traditional by Western standards. Siddhartha had been needling me for a while, but I thought I’d already read it back in my college days. I was wrong. Not sure what I read back then, but it wasn’t this.

For most of this book I didn’t find the moving story or inspirational prose I was looking for. There was too much narrator t...