People keep saying that if I like reading, I should read this book. To people who have read it, is it any good?
2006-09-10 08:58:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Do read it! It will change your life for good (and better)! After I read " The Alchemist" I felt as if somebody has put into words all my inner feelings, fears, desires, hopes, contradictions and aspirations. Then I kept reading more and more Paulo Coelho and I believe his books have helped me grow as a person. True, his message is simple and it repeats and recurs in every novel, but it seems that we need to read it so often in order to apply it in our own lives. The Alchemist is a book about the search of what we want and the difficult way to get it. i highly recommend that you read it!
P.S> I wish you to find and follow your personal legend.
2006-09-10 10:41:59 · answer #1 · answered by butterfly 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you should read it but only if you are ready to see the parts of great books copied in it (Markes, Borges, Camus, ...), used but not transformed...I really do not like it, it seams too superficial for me and since we already, more or less, live in a world equally superficial, I do not need another thing to remind me. Alchemist does in a great way...
2006-09-10 21:47:05 · answer #2 · answered by Sumatra 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!!!!
I was very sceptical about reading this book as so many of my friends had said you must read it, I eventually bowed down to pressure and read it in one day!!!!!
The message of the book is so simple yet profound and I highly recommend it
ENJOY
2006-09-10 09:07:31 · answer #3 · answered by MAGGI R 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read it now........read it again in a few years....and again and again and again.
Read this book for reasons beyond just "liking to read".
"LIFE IS IN THE JOURNEY, NOT THE DESTINATION".
2006-09-11 06:09:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is very good and it is different then most books about that time period. Very interesting indeed.
2006-09-10 09:21:25 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Y***E***S!!!!
you should read it!!!
I love the writer...read also "Veronica decides to die" and "eleven minuets"
2006-09-10 09:45:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's amazing.. really gets u thinking, very simple, very direct, very deepy
it's just perfect
2006-09-10 10:15:16 · answer #7 · answered by la_fille_en_blue 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋