Sunday, April 11, 2010

I read a couple of books. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse and Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh. I spent over a month on the former, while I finished the latter in just around 3 days. I found both incredible, though at different levels. I think i'll need to re-read Siddhartha to thoroughly absorb it. It is incredibly heavy in thought. The fact that he has condensed it to just over a 100 pages doesn't actually help. The transformation in perceptions and thinking happen in a matter of a couple of paragraphs. It needs to be read really really slowly. Train to Pakistan is on the other hand, something that I am glad to have read, and it thoroughly shook me from the inside. I will elaborate later, giving more details in a proper review that it deserves. But here's just a small update to act as a mental note.
P.S. I am tired. I am a little frustrated with the internet. The sheer mental addiction to which I put myself through is insane. And for what? Just to be on that bloody facebook page for the hundredth time in a day? Screw it man, get a life. Signing off in the hope of doing something more constructive for a change.
Cheah!