Siddhartha

When you read Siddhartha, and you journey with the protagonist through a wild variety of lifestyles, it is unlikely that you will not find at least one part of Siddhartha's life that is not unlike your own.  Siddhartha is about a man who thinks he finds perfection in almost every chapter and seems to find it at the end -- but it makes me wonder if had there been more chapters, Siddhartha would have realized yet again that what he had thought was wisdom was really folly.  The English translation that I read had a quite poetic prose, saying several thoughts in a single sentence.  It was incredible to me that so many things could be expressed in a mere 157 pages.