What a weird and bizarre book. I had forced myself to relate to Siddhartha all along until the story brought him back to the River where it all just go loopy from there. Would anybody care to explain to me the point of all his search and the triumph of his resolution at all?
A series of letters from Daw Aung San Su Kyi during the brief gap of 20 plus years long house arrest during the 90s to be published in a certain newspaper. (She might have mentioned the name in the book, but I couldn't remember)
Unlike her other book Freedom from Fear, this book is filled with many poignant stories about her daily life, lovely stories of cultural events and political events centered around her life as a political dissident. I love many of her delicate metaphors. The tremendous mental strength - facing the challenges that laid before her - emerges through her writings and inspired me unlike any other books I have ever read.
There is no you-know-who that the whole world should be afraid of, there is no single hero with boundless moral authority, there is no global issues that tells epic stories. Each and every character are the villains and the heroes of their own story (more or less) and their challenges, as small as they may be, are real and relatable.
It started out slow and stoppable until I was half-way in. I thank myself now that I persisted.
I stopped reading it after making 50% progress of the book.
You should read this book only if you are a big fan of the author's previous books and don't mind life advices given to you with nothing but anecdotal evidences in the frame of the theories from his previous books.
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