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Linda Martin
Mar 06, 2013 rated it liked it
Shelves: fiction, geo-india
Siddhartha left home as a young man to pursue his dream of spiritual enlightenment. After years of wandering with a friend in a band of ascetics they met the Buddha. His friend became a Buddhist monk, but Siddhartha was looking for something else.

The story doesn't end there but I don't want to tell the rest in a review. The path that Siddhartha took should resonate with what most of us have gone through in life.

The first time I read this book I was seventeen. It was recommended to me by the lib
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I liked the plot and general idea of this book, but the sentence structure and wording just about drove me mad.
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