From Goodreads
As far as Siddhartha is a story the work is simple and beautiful. hesse does a great job of developing characters through the book in a unique way. In a sense he reveals them in the way that Siddhartha learns, by pulling back the bits of otherness to get to the oneness.
My only issue with the book is not so much with the book as with its modern devotees. The theology or philosophy or whatever you may call it that is built on this work is often wileded recklessly, clumsily and haphazardly by those same seekers that eternally never find anything. There may be wisdom in this book but it may be just as ineffable as the ferryman says it is.
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