Other reviews at The Book Babe's Reads. "Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there." My experience with The Alchemist can only be described as enlightening. It really was an enlightening read. I liked the kind of mindles...
This is a crappy self-help book masquerading as a crappy novel.I didn't know what I was getting into with The Alchemist. I thought that it was magical-realism-lite. However, I began to get seriously worried, when I noticed that it was being compared to The Little Prince and even to The Prophet. I...
At last I read it. I wasn't sure what to expect and went in blind, but it was well worth it. Reading this book, for me, was an expedition of discovery. I'll read it again and I'll recommend it without a pause. My time is limited and I can therefore not elaborate much in this review, if you can call ...
This is for the kind of person who loved Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Unfortunately, I'm not that person. I don't know if the translation is partly to blame, but the style is what is pretentiously called "Hemingwayesque" when someone's trying to be flattering. In other words, Dick, ...
This book just got zero emotions out of me. But I definitely do see how so many people love this book and say it changed their lives.*I had to read this for school.
This is one of my all time favorite, fictional books and judging from reactions around the world, with millions and millions of copies sold, this indeed is a special book. The Alchemist is a fable about a young shepherd who travels the Mediterranean in search of a treasure. The plot itself is gripp...
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