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Siddhartha
Siddhartha
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September 1, 2014
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September 30, 2014
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Siddhartha is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a …more

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Dioni
May 19, 2014 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Siddharta was not quite like what I expected. I was expecting some kind of biography of Siddharta the Buddha, but instead, we follow the journey of another man, also named Siddharta, who seems to be in the shadow of Siddharta the Buddha (his timeline seems to happen after Buddha).

Our character Siddharta goes through a different journey to enlightenment, which I’m not going to go into too much details. I cannot remember much about the ending, so I can’t tell you even if I want to.

I was very intri ...more
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Mar 10, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Apr 03, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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