Who has read it?

Excellence. Really. It's best the second time, though, because you actually realize what going on. I mean, at first I was just sort of like

"Okay, a hermapherdiate, a homosexual jazz player, some hookers, wenches, and lots of opium, pills, and liqour... but, what really happening?" Ah, but then I realized that those people scarcely existed at all, but we're - rather - almost - a skitzophrenic episode?

O, anyways, it actually ends while he's on an opium trip and talking to Mozart. It's great.

But, I wont spoil it any further.

Anybody read Journey To The East? I'm really glad I read that first. Journey To The East was to novels what The Raven was to poetry. Amazing.

Cheers,
Lost

Have you read Siddhartha?

Yea. Actually, I read it high school to irritate a professor, believe it or not. She was flunking me in math for the second year and she was bent on making me look like a real idiot in front of the students in the class. I mean, she would get personal and way out of line. So, in turn, I decided to join the DeCathalon. Of which she was the director. But, she wouldn't let me join because she's a wench but, I read and did all the work that the DeCathalon did, came to all the meetings, etc... and come time for the finals I was the only person who knew the material. She asked me to compete in the finals. I said no.

But, I did read Siddharta (excuse the spelling, it's been a while) through all that.

It's really underrated. A lot of people find it boring. But, once you get through it you just sit there and are like "Wow."

Cheers,
Lost

Enlightenment can only be achieved through the self.

I'm just finishing Hesse's "Naricicis And Goldmund". It was nice change of pace.

Beneath the wheel is good too.

Demian was my favorite book by hesse.