""I read Siddhartha a long, long time ago. I was actually in high school, and we were forced to choose from several different stacks of books; and I picked it up because it was the shortest one out of all of them. So it wasn't really out of inspiration; it was out of laziness.
The book is about - it's sort of a story that kind of parallels the path of the Buddha. It starts out with a prince in India and follows him as he gives up all of his wealth and goes through all these different extremes of different paths of enlightenment. One of the parts of the book that just kind of stands out to me is just when he's gone to sort of this extreme poverty state and how completely different - at the time for me, as a teenager, that was something that nobody would do voluntarily; and yet he's doing all this voluntarily, and he's with other people that are doing it voluntarily, and I thought that was really fascinating.
I think this was - at least for me in particular - a really good book for me to read in high school because I was a very - well, I still am - a very extreme personality. So it's you either are or you aren't something, or all this excess is important, you gotta have everything. And it was actually the first time I actually considered that you might be okay to meet in the middle.
Not a long book, not particularly hard to read. It is kind of a nice story that doesn't drag you along in any sense. It was actually very easy to want to read more, and so I think it would appeal to a wide audience. My star rating for this book would be a four out of five. I'm giving it that because I definitely got a lot out of the book."
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