I really disliked this book in a MAJOR way, I don't know if it's just me or what but I found myself falling asleep and putting off the REQIURED reading untill last min. While some of the values and morals the book teaches I will admit are worth while, like Sidd. says, I could have learned it in a prosistution house. I am in 10th grade and was required to read this book. I found it EXTREMLY boring and not worth the time I was FORCED to spend on it. I also unlike most high schoolers DO enjoy reading some and many books I find interesting I read on my own often. I personaly am glad we are done w/ our unit on Siddartha b/c you would have to pay me a lot of money to read it again. Also if any one out there is thinking that I am just a illeterate high school student, that has nothing better to do than go out and drink, maybe your right but, i do my homework I have all a's and am in ALL Honors corses, thank you very much. EMPinNC