I loved this book, but I also wonder how much I am missing by learning a regurgitation of Buddhist philosophy from Hermann Hesse rather than an actual Buddhist. I’ve now read quite a bit about this being a German Idealist understanding of Buddhism and Hinduism, and it’s twice as fascinating to me that Siddhartha, while enjoyable to read - at least with a less than knowledge mind on the subject - is but a veneer for a westernized version of an eastern religion/philosophy. Even if reading Siddhartha did not give me an accurate understanding of Buddhism, it will have given me the foundational knowledge that the real thing is vastly different and far richer than that which is depicted. Great experience,