Siddhartha: the Surprisingly Good Required Book
Siddhartha, the story of a knowledge-seeking boy to a wealthy man to an enlightened elder, was surprisingly good. Maybe not in the this-was-the-best-book-I've-ever-read-in-my-life way, but definitely one where I'd maybe remember its content in a few months time, because let's face it: most of the required readings in high school are forgotten a week after their completion. Honestly though, Siddhartha did its job, because there were definitely parts of the story where I was left flabbergasted, and as I've learned from my English teacher, "Any book that makes you feel is a good one". After completing the novel, I'm strangely still kinda thinking about it. I mean, when you think about it in the grand scheme of things, what Siddhartha went through was all sorts of crazy: he left his stable home life to learn more, gets rich just because he was really only in the right place at the right time surrounded by the right peo...