at first i thought of checking some of these books out and read them at homethere was the life of siddhartha gautama , which was about the buddha ; there was one book called the fundamentals of bahai , which i never got all the way through ; then there was a long book called the wonder that was india , which covered indias many religions from the word go ; they had two or three books on islam , and one simply called world religionsbut i soon thought better of it .