On 25 May 2010 12:48, Sriram Karra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > These are books I have read and like (in no particular order). >> > - Herman Hesse's Siddhartha >> >> I read this 10 years ago and don't remember it too well. This book was >> highly allegorical (a la Jonathan Livingston Seagull) and I did not >> take very many practical lessons from it. > > > You should read it again now. I must have read it atleast 5 times over the > past 10 years, and each time the perspective was different. The impact your > own state of mind has on how much you get out of this small book is not > funny... (I suppose that is true of any book related to spirituality!) >
I think that's very true Sriram. One of the few books I have read at different time points of life is Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. I'm also due for another reading of Herman Hesse's SteppenWolf. ~ashwin
