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Listened to this on audio and not sure about the date finished. Dragged in parts, but I'm glad I read it. I was amazed at the number of quotes that have entered popular culture from this book.
While I agree with what I've read on principal the majority of this book is pretty dull.
The first American to translate philosophy from India (parts of the Lotus Sutra), Henry David (HD) Thoreau had read that ice was being shipped from America to India, and decided to retreat to a cabin in the woods by Walden Pond, "to live deliberately." Later, Gandhi had read and was influenced by T...