What a wonderful little book. I remember all the young adults I used to know gushing over this book but I never read it. All the things readers have said about East of Eden and Paul Coelho's books...
What a wonderful little book. I remember all the young adults I used to know gushing over this book but I never read it.
All the things readers have said about East of Eden and Paul Coelho's books left me cold upon reading them. Probably because of reading them when I'm much older. But Siddhartha is much more interesting, at least to me. Hesse's style suits me better.
The subject matter is much like those other books, basically what life is about and our journey through it. Having lived much of what Siddhartha went through, it resonates on a personal level. It wasn't so much a description of ideas as an exposition of them through Sid's life.
I'm still in the process of comparing Siddhartha to other books related to Zen and Tao as well as 'western' ideas of philosophy. I highly recommend the book and would be interested in hearing your thoughts.
You mean self-help books? Or morality stories in general? Or are you making reference to some work by Coelho that I'm no aware of? Sorry that line lost me.
first thousand books on how to live
You mean self-help books? Or morality stories in general? Or are you making reference to some work by Coelho that I'm no aware of? Sorry that line lost me.
Pilgrim's Progress, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Think and Grow Rich, Zen and the Art of Archery, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Bible, The Koran, Tao te Ching, Looking...
Pilgrim's Progress, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Think and Grow Rich, Zen and the Art of Archery, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Bible, The Koran, Tao te Ching, Looking out for Number One, Meno, A Child's Garden of Grass, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Peter Principal, Tales of Power, Scientology, Psycho Cybernetics, The Best of the Far Side, Man's Search for Meaning, Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex-But Were Afraid to Ask, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, This is Water, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Book, The Mismeasure of Man, Getting Even, Seinlanguage, Walden Two, Girl Interrupted, The Sellout, Grapes of Wrath, Nine Hundred Grandmothers, Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Shogun, The Hardy Boy's Detective Handbook, Labyrinths, How to make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think, ...
I've been reading a long time. Most of them I've forgotten. But I do remember there are 5 types of fingerprints. Or is it 7? What's that website where you can search for anything?LOL It's 8. Or 3...
I've been reading a long time. Most of them I've forgotten. But I do remember there are 5 types of fingerprints. Or is it 7? What's that website where you can search for anything?LOL It's 8. Or 3 main ones.
Seriously, I didn't expect to be so impressed by Siddhartha. Really wondering if I'm biased because Hesse has such a reputation. (Probably so.) But it may just be a matter of one's taste. And though I loved Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden seemed to me like filched Heinlein. But probably it's the other way around as they were contemporaries.
I read Siddhartha when I was younger and enough time has passed where I'd probably get a lot out of reading it again. I get the Steinbeck - Heinlein comparison. I'm a big Heinlein fan and while I...
I read Siddhartha when I was younger and enough time has passed where I'd probably get a lot out of reading it again.
I get the Steinbeck - Heinlein comparison. I'm a big Heinlein fan and while I haven't read East of Eden, I've read Grapes of Wrath and both it and Heinlein's earlier work - such as his juvenile books - share a similar directness with language and paint America in a similar light.
Reading Siddartha helped me to get my first internship. I was interviewing for the internship and the manager explained all their technologies and I had no experience in any of them. She asked...
Reading Siddartha helped me to get my first internship. I was interviewing for the internship and the manager explained all their technologies and I had no experience in any of them. She asked what I could offer to the company and I said something like, "I can read, I can learn, and I can work hard". I'm not sure it's an exact quotation from Siddartha but it was inspired by reading it. Apparently, it was a decent answer cause I got the job.
I love this. I hope you don't mind me stealing it. FWIW I also read the book and I loved it. Reading this book started me out on a journey to find myself and think much more about spirituality...
I love this. I hope you don't mind me stealing it. FWIW I also read the book and I loved it. Reading this book started me out on a journey to find myself and think much more about spirituality than I did ever before, being raised in a pretty religious household.
Siddhartha was a book assigned to me in high school and made me strongly consider converting to Buddhism. I took a Buddhism class in college and determined it wasn't for me, but the book still...
Siddhartha was a book assigned to me in high school and made me strongly consider converting to Buddhism. I took a Buddhism class in college and determined it wasn't for me, but the book still stuck with me as a great read. Very affecting for such an easy read.
I have not read it for many years, but I have given copies of it to people for Christmas since then. I need to reread it again. It had a pretty big impact on me as a teenager. It actually sort of...
I have not read it for many years, but I have given copies of it to people for Christmas since then. I need to reread it again. It had a pretty big impact on me as a teenager. It actually sort of informed the direction of my life to a decent extent.
To be honest, I didn’t love Siddhartha as much as many people here. It was certainly interesting, but it didn’t blow my mind. Maybe I should give it another try.
To be honest, I didn’t love Siddhartha as much as many people here. It was certainly interesting, but it didn’t blow my mind.
I had to read it for a philosphy class (Eastern Religions) and it was an interesting book, with an interesting take on the story of Buddha (obviously, told through somebody who only shared the...
I had to read it for a philosphy class (Eastern Religions) and it was an interesting book, with an interesting take on the story of Buddha (obviously, told through somebody who only shared the name, and crossed paths with him).
What a wonderful little book. I remember all the young adults I used to know gushing over this book but I never read it.
All the things readers have said about East of Eden and Paul Coelho's books left me cold upon reading them. Probably because of reading them when I'm much older. But Siddhartha is much more interesting, at least to me. Hesse's style suits me better.
The subject matter is much like those other books, basically what life is about and our journey through it. Having lived much of what Siddhartha went through, it resonates on a personal level. It wasn't so much a description of ideas as an exposition of them through Sid's life.
I'm still in the process of comparing Siddhartha to other books related to Zen and Tao as well as 'western' ideas of philosophy. I highly recommend the book and would be interested in hearing your thoughts.
Just FYI: philosophy discussions are covered in ~humanities.
I really like it too, have you read Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game? Steppenwolf in particular brought me to tears on numerous occasions.
I've been in the middle of The Glass Bead Game for about 6 years. I love the style. Will have to get into Steppenwolf.
No love for The Alchemist?
No, but if I had read it before the first thousand books on how to live I might have been inspired.
You mean self-help books? Or morality stories in general? Or are you making reference to some work by Coelho that I'm no aware of? Sorry that line lost me.
Pilgrim's Progress, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Think and Grow Rich, Zen and the Art of Archery, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Bible, The Koran, Tao te Ching, Looking out for Number One, Meno, A Child's Garden of Grass, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Peter Principal, Tales of Power, Scientology, Psycho Cybernetics, The Best of the Far Side, Man's Search for Meaning, Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex-But Were Afraid to Ask, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, This is Water, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Book, The Mismeasure of Man, Getting Even, Seinlanguage, Walden Two, Girl Interrupted, The Sellout, Grapes of Wrath, Nine Hundred Grandmothers, Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Shogun, The Hardy Boy's Detective Handbook, Labyrinths, How to make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think, ...
Quite the list you got there. I'm happy to say I've read a few of those.
I've been reading a long time. Most of them I've forgotten. But I do remember there are 5 types of fingerprints. Or is it 7? What's that website where you can search for anything?LOL It's 8. Or 3 main ones.
Seriously, I didn't expect to be so impressed by Siddhartha. Really wondering if I'm biased because Hesse has such a reputation. (Probably so.) But it may just be a matter of one's taste. And though I loved Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden seemed to me like filched Heinlein. But probably it's the other way around as they were contemporaries.
I read Siddhartha when I was younger and enough time has passed where I'd probably get a lot out of reading it again.
I get the Steinbeck - Heinlein comparison. I'm a big Heinlein fan and while I haven't read East of Eden, I've read Grapes of Wrath and both it and Heinlein's earlier work - such as his juvenile books - share a similar directness with language and paint America in a similar light.
Reading Siddartha helped me to get my first internship. I was interviewing for the internship and the manager explained all their technologies and I had no experience in any of them. She asked what I could offer to the company and I said something like, "I can read, I can learn, and I can work hard". I'm not sure it's an exact quotation from Siddartha but it was inspired by reading it. Apparently, it was a decent answer cause I got the job.
That's an awesome story! Sid said "I can think. I can wait. I can fast." I don't think he would have gotten the job, lol.
I love this. I hope you don't mind me stealing it. FWIW I also read the book and I loved it. Reading this book started me out on a journey to find myself and think much more about spirituality than I did ever before, being raised in a pretty religious household.
Feel free to steal, glad you found it helpful.
Thank you.
Siddhartha was a book assigned to me in high school and made me strongly consider converting to Buddhism. I took a Buddhism class in college and determined it wasn't for me, but the book still stuck with me as a great read. Very affecting for such an easy read.
I have not read it for many years, but I have given copies of it to people for Christmas since then. I need to reread it again. It had a pretty big impact on me as a teenager. It actually sort of informed the direction of my life to a decent extent.
To be honest, I didn’t love Siddhartha as much as many people here. It was certainly interesting, but it didn’t blow my mind.
Maybe I should give it another try.
I had to read it for a philosphy class (Eastern Religions) and it was an interesting book, with an interesting take on the story of Buddha (obviously, told through somebody who only shared the name, and crossed paths with him).