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Pros
This is such a monumental novel. If you are soul searching and trying to find your life purpose this is a great read. I highly recommend this reading.
Paulo coelho is a masterful author. His novels are neo-classical masterworks. The alchemist has been translated into 88 different languages.
Cons
The term alchemy isn’t even mentioned until halfway into the story. I read it earlier than y2k and the dot-com boom and bust, it is a bunch of pages full of platitudes and lofty abstractions. Maybe it's because of how the book became that it was seen ... Read More
The story encompassing this hokum has some appeal but it really doesn't make much sense. King and elemental spirits are forced down our * by this pseudo-spiritual trash. The book has a simplistic message that was not enhanced by repetition. It's an ok... Read More
The third person omniscient narrator will, forever after, refer to the hero of this story as the boy for the next 165 pages.
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Coelho consented to share his gift with the world through this brilliant novel
This book is up there with the bible as one of my favorite books of all time
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- This product had a total of 139,938 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 6 2023.
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You may wonder why i recommend this book
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This is why i feel like this book is mostly for teenagers
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Some look as if they were torn by hand or didn’t get a clean cut by the cutting machine
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I’m returning this and just placed another order
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The media could not be loaded
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I thought because this book was short it would be ok at best
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Something more like indiana jones
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Listen im no book specialist i just like to read and only now as a retiree do i have the time do so
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