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I sat down and read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse from front back this afternoon. It's the second work of Hesse's I've read recently (read Narcissus and Goldmund a few months back) I understood the story fairly well, but feel like I can still find a deeper level in the book if I have a better understanding of the principals the story is based upon. I think Hesse's obsession (and alot of other authors for that matter) with eastern mysticism, and partially my own disgust with modern western civilization has created an interest in the philosophies, religions, and practices of the east. So I'm diving into some more reading on the subject now...
Additionally I read the first few chapters of The Tao of Detox: The Secrets of Yang-Sheng Dao the other day. My roommate handed me it to take a look at the other day (apparently she's on a cleansing fast right now), and it only took a couple chapters to pull me in too...
I'll definitely make a note on your recommendations, as I'm flying into a reading frenzy as of lately. I finished Plato's Republic not long ago, Timothy Leary's Design For Dying, Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols & The Antichrist, and am still trudging along through his Thus Spoke Zarathustra (I spend about as much time in the dictionary as I do this book, so it's coming along slowly)...
I probably haven't read as many actual books in my entire schooling as I have in the last 4-5 months. Crazy how things change, lol...
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