The Witch of Portobello
by:
Paulo Coelho (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061349959 (006134995x)
Publish date: May 15th 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 268
Edition language: English
كانت ستعجبني لو لم اقرأ لكويلو سابقا, الا ان قراءتي لروايته بريدا اشعرتني انني لازلت في نفس الرواية, بشكل عام الرواية جيدة, والنهاية سعيدة كعادة كويلو
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The Witch of Portobello is the first novel I have read by Paulo Coelho, and I completely understand why he has sold tens of millions of books worldwide. Additionally, I never want to read him ever again. See, Coelho is a master in the art of pseudo-philosophy. Rather than presenting an interestin...
This is my first Paulo Coelho, and perhaps it's not his best. It's a little too heavy-handed with the mother-goddess storyline, and never quite reconciles the witchy characters' apparent divinity with their human failings--they are arrogant and irritating, and we don't ever really get to see why the...
So being a reasonably intelligent person, I would expect that I would have learned my lesson before this, but apparently I did not. I read The Alchemist because it was so highly recommended and didn't like it and then I read Aleph because it was supposed to be non-fiction and I expected more, but I...
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